Example sentences of "[verb] do [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , by supporting Israel 's occupation of various Arab slivers , America has done neither itself nor Israel a service . |
| 2 | Where the government has done exactly what it said it would do , its policies have worked . |
| 3 | Volunteers are naturally eager to know how well the event has done so it 's best that the cash is totalled before they leave then either banked straight away or placed in the safe keeping of the headteacher or the deputy until the bank opens on the following day . |
| 4 | ‘ No sponsor is happy about the possibility of his business being hit when he has done all he can . |
| 5 | In two modern cases , however , it has been held that so long as the donor has done all he needs to do , the beneficial interest passes from him to the donee . |
| 6 | But the Government has done all it can and we welcome it . ’ |
| 7 | The coucil has done all it can to help the family . |
| 8 | There 's no actor in the world who has done all his own stunts . |
| 9 | The Government must have known it was coming again , yet has done absolutely nothing to prevent the side-effects . |
| 10 | Maggie has done absolutely nothing . |
| 11 | When I spoke to the Conservative association in the hon. Gentleman 's constituency I heard only a litany of problems caused by the Labour-controlled council , which has done absolutely nothing to promote the area . |
| 12 | After a week of fighting , Mr Hussein 's war machine has done virtually nothing but hunker down and wait to be attacked . |
| 13 | Suggestions of obligating the unemployed to work for their benefits are quite in keeping for a Government which has done virtually everything else it can to ensure that millions of Britons will work for derisory incomes . |
| 14 | As he pretended to do so he hissed in his son 's ear , " God grant that I may not die until I have had my revenge on you . " |
| 15 | It is , perhaps , not very different from what anyone has to do today who is interested in the higher generalities of evolution , except of course that there is less need to get people to do specific jobs , because there are so many people publishing anyway . |
| 16 | What the Commission has to do now there is a new article in the Maastricht treaty is to ensure that its practice complies with it and that it does not encourage the drafting of legislation or the working out of projects on matters that can perfectly well be dealt with by member states , or even closer to the citizen , and that applies to English and French cheeses . |
| 17 | If wood is physically restrained from shrinking when it wants to do so it will split , because it has almost no tensile strength across the grain . |
| 18 | It was a high one , but although she was confident she could climb it , she knew that if she tried to do so she would risk being seen from the house ; but beside it was a shallow grassy ditch were she could remain out of sight , so bending double she ran along this ditch , and came to the spot where she had seen Tristram . |
| 19 | It 's like the stupid things that I tried to do once myself with that great pope of Velasquez . |
| 20 | He wanted ‘ to do what I want to do whenever I can ’ . |
| 21 | When I 'm happy I 'm a wonderful person to be with , but if anyone tries to keep me from doing what I want to do then I 'm … ’ |
| 22 | I 'm , I 'm , part of this er is , is his name and address , I presume that you will , you will contact , yeah , well we , we , we want to do so I mean , what , what do I have to do ? |
| 23 | Erm but you will be in that position , you may be so dedicated about something that you want to do like I did , I thoroughly enjoyed it it 's given me a great deal of pleasure , I 've worked with about a hundred different people over the years that have been in my dance group , all ages all personalities , we 've worked with some fantastic music which er erm we 've had to interpret . |
| 24 | It seemed to me that somebody like Michael Crawford would be an absolute past master at giving a riveting performance by appearing to do almost nothing . |
| 25 | So yes the answer to the question is yes there is a budget there is a budget and we need to do things now one of the problems could be the budget is n't sufficient to cover all that needs doing so I think you 'll find that the building been built at a certain time there a comes a time you 've got plan a maintenance programme which we have things need to be done . |
| 26 | We thought daddy was gon na win did n't we ? |
| 27 | Er er in hole that 's like that and you 're grabbing out , well you 're only making a hole and fill in again but they into that one place do n't they |
| 28 | Well you know the one we want do n't you ? |
| 29 | Oh Home Alone you want do n't you ? |
| 30 | Club Classics you want do n't you ? |