Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ( A couple of drunks do eventually square up in the third base bleachers , but by Stamford Bridge standards it is almost a mating ritual ) .
2 One of the few times you will find big bream in waters which do not match up to the points I have mentioned is when they are the result of a recent stocking operation .
3 You can not expect to be asked the questions exactly as they appear here and you will be badly thrown if you have programmed yourself with exact responses to very particular questions which do not crop up in the way you had anticipated .
4 Just as they are taught other subjects , they should increasingly be taught about such topics as mental handicap so that they do not grow up with the prejudices that their parents may possess .
5 I was certainly happy to make this find as the larger hammered silver coins of this period are not common and certainly do not pour out of the ground no matter where you live .
6 In many cases this has resulted in the introduction of faked features and the associated destruction of existing features which , though often of architectural and historic interest in their own right , do not fit in with the designer 's concept of the pub 's ideal form .
7 As I 've tried to suggest , many books do not face up to the very evident problems confronting psychology , but it does seem that the discipline is alive and kicking .
8 On it were the words : ‘ Do not go on to the moor .
9 Do not go back to the old gods . ’
10 Do not go out on the streets , he begged his compatriots — instead , put a lighted candle in the window for reform .
11 ‘ Give me your number and do not go out for the next half-hour . ’
12 You do not call out , you do not lay around on the floor .
13 Whatever may have been threatened or done , do not give in to the bully and do not keep whatever has happened to yourself .
14 Do not hold on to the interviewer 's hand for too long as this signals overfamiliarity .
15 ‘ We do not leap on to the table for our food .
16 However , even the best of these efforts , and they are perhaps in their fully fledged forms used more in psychology than in social research , do not reach up to the standards of measurement used in science or , less ambitiously , the higher levels of measurement represented by interval and ratio scales .
17 It is a common critical stance to praise Tolkien 's conception , often somewhat vaguely , or with even more vagueness his ‘ mythological ’ or ‘ mythopoeic ’ powers ; but then to declare that the words do not live up to the things , the style ‘ is quite inadequate to the theme ’ .
18 To provide an illustration , a child who gets into trouble is much more likely to come before a court if he or she is from a poor home and has parents who do not get on with the welfare authorities or the police , than if his or her family is prosperous , respectable and willing to co-operate with the police and social services .
19 In the absence of more detailed evidence we can only speculate whether the more vocationally , or instrumentally , motivated applicants are , the less willing they will be to consider other , alternative courses and institutions if they do not get on to the course they wanted .
20 Sheer orders of magnitude matter , and the orders of magnitude do not come down on the side of the real-balance effect .
21 And record years on Wall Street do not come along like the Staten Island ferry .
22 The Committee took the view that lawyers are unapproachable because of the inaccessibility of premises and their unwelcoming nature , because the methods of work do not tie in with the needs of clients , and because of a lack of response to the needs of linguistic minorities .
23 It is useful to have trays with a non-skid surface and a raised rim , so that small objects do not slip on to the floor or out of reach .
24 INDUSTRIAL fasteners group TT is to pay a second interim dividend on March 31 for the year ended last December to ensure that shareholders do not lose out following the recent Budget changes .
25 It is not that English people do not lie down in the bedroom , or that French people do not have keys , but rather they choose different salient characteristics for the expression of that specific meaning .
26 Many , if not most , events implicated in depression do not occur out of the blue .
27 Even the pointed vocal melodies of its strongest tracks , ‘ Stopping The World ’ and ‘ Upside Down ’ , do not cut out of the level bed of instrumentation .
28 It is useful to quote the size of the repeat when ordering fabric for curtains or blinds so that you do not cut off in the middle of a formalized pattern .
29 It is a known and established fact that political parties do not pick up in the polls once an election is under way .
30 Put simply , the meanings of black and bird do not add up to the meaning of blackbird , but do yield that of black bird .
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