Example sentences of "[adv] do [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember , they can only do it once . |
| 2 | Oh yes well you can perhaps do it tomorrow |
| 3 | Well you could perhaps do it together but be careful . |
| 4 | Only done her once ? |
| 5 | Really I think I 've only done it twice this term . |
| 6 | ‘ Promises ’ song was music first ( that 's hard and I 've only done it once since ) and ‘ Sincerely Yours ’ was Rab Handleigh 's ‘ tribute ’ to Barry Manilow which he performed with perfect schmaltz suavity . |
| 7 | I 've only done it once with crisps I had some were soggy and sour and horrible |
| 8 | Well , he 's only done it once and that was when it was in a coat pocket and he pulled it out and it sort of must |
| 9 | Better do it otherwise you 'll forget , gon na eat that little bit of cake or I 'll throw it away ? |
| 10 | But you 'd better do it carefully . |
| 11 | Oh I 'll give you , I 'll give you a pound do n't worry , make sure you do the job properly , mm you 'd better do it outside , cos the er , the boot polish do n't go on the carpet . |
| 12 | Some time later a man came along the path and stopped to ask me if I was all right , I told him yes and to please go away , which he did but I thought he 'll go to fetch help so I 'd better do it now . |
| 13 | Perhaps I had better do it now . ’ |
| 14 | If you want to be out on that pitch when the referee blows his whistle , you 'd better do it now . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Some people think I am crazy but I thought I had better do it now while I have the chance . ’ |
| 16 | And we had better do it quickly , because the trees and clumps are rapidly disappearing through the ravages of storms and neglect . |
| 17 | If they were on Snakebite , I 'd better do it quickly . |
| 18 | Very good I wonder if we could all do it as well as that ? |
| 19 | She cheered up after writing the experiment because she had obviously done it rather well . |
| 20 | Well , I had this one bought at Christmas and I 've only just got him persuaded to let me bring the board down to do it downstairs cos you , where are we going to put it ? |
| 21 | There would seem to be a strong argument , with so many millions of us , only to do it once . |
| 22 | It would n't take long to do it now but I ca n't be bothered |
| 23 | Mr 's only doing it today so I ai n't got ta go in tomorrow . |
| 24 | Erm , want to come through into this room and we 'll sit you down doing them now . |
| 25 | ( I had better say now that readers who identify the I of the Sonnets with Shakespeare 's own personality not only encourage that futility of speculation about the identity of a real-life ‘ Friend ’ and ‘ Dark Lady ’ which has pestered discussions of these poems for so long , and is now in the last stages of senility ; but in so doing they also destroy one of the essential principles of literary criticism in modern times , the independence of the I in lyric poetry , its existence as a persona or mask behind which the poet is free to impersonate any human situation without being identified with each or all of the mutations — often contradictory — taken on by his persona . ) |
| 26 | In so doing it also crossed what the Swiss recognise as an ancient cultural frontier which in this part of the country runs not as a straight line but in a curve in clockwise direction , through the Brunig Pass , the centre of the highland massif known as the Napf , and the river Reuss which flows out from the Vierwaldstattersee at Luzern . |
| 27 | In so doing he also gave his blessing to — what in effect proved to be the case — declaring the Transkei , or at least Bumbane , the first ANC liberated zone , however fleetingly , yesterday afternoon . |
| 28 | In so doing he also rediscovers Pip , whom he lures to a disused lime-kiln with the intention of killing him , but in the nick of time is frustrated by Herbert , Startop , and Trabb 's boy . |
| 29 | In so doing he often exposes the different colour of the priming ground underneath . |
| 30 | And they all did it apart from Chris who said urgh she always works us too hard ! |