Example sentences of "do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If such treatments could eradicate the symptoms in a large proportion of patients it would be a different matter , but they do not-in most patients , they simply reduce the symptoms to a more manageable level . |
| 2 | This is a ‘ rule ’ with which I do wholeheartedly agree . |
| 3 | This may be to acquaynt you that their is a pore yong women in oure Towne of Asston-underlyne infected with a filthy deceassed called the French poxe and shee saith shee was defiled by one Henry Heyworth a maryed man , but soe it is the report of that dessease occasioneth neighbours to deny hir harbour and shee is enforced to lye in the streetes and in great danger to bee starved , I do humbly intreate your worshipps to take it into your consideration and to grant your Order that the pore woman may be provyded for to prevent starveing , either upon the parrish charges , or upon the Costs of the said Heyworth whom she saith hath spoiled hir , whether yiur worshipps shall think fitt |
| 4 | This sensation of tears is like a scent which guides the mystics ; and men on their journey in the transcendent know they do right when they are accompanied by this phenomenon of tears . |
| 5 | ‘ Reason tells me I do right to let you go , yet my heart urges me to hold on to you … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You do right , at least , in confession , ’ said Radulfus mildly . |
| 7 | ‘ The manager treats his players like adults and if you do right by him he will do right by you , ’ Goram points out . |
| 8 | If you do right by him he will do right by you ’ |
| 9 | you do right , it 's nice , it 's a nice neat one that in n it ? |
| 10 | Well all you do right , you have gates |
| 11 | Although my own options were fairly limited — and moving was not one of them — satisfactory alternatives do thankfully exist . |
| 12 | Whatever you do with it you do unofficially . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps , after all , you really do secretly relish the thought of sharing a house with me . ’ |
| 14 | When men get to around forty they all seem to want to have affairs with younger women … but … they have usually forgotten how to go about ‘ chatting up ’ women and so they revert to pubescent memories and do incredibly stupid things like writing letters , or , even worse , poems to the unfortunate woman . |
| 15 | ‘ We wanted to play Dublin but all the venues were booked out months ago , so we 'll have to come back in the New Year and do somewhere like the SFX or the Stadium . |
| 16 | I would also avoid all those bent wire contraptions : they may look attractive in a well photographed catalogue but do little for the design of your garden . |
| 17 | Sympathetic typifications of Catholics do little to lessen the obvious problem of being attacked while walking the beat . |
| 18 | Faxes and telephones add to the flow of communication but do little to reduce the flow of people . |
| 19 | Co-ventures of this kind certainly do little to change the stereotyped European image of Latin America . |
| 20 | I do little but rest and try to put this house into some sort of order but as yet there is neither pleasure nor profit in it . |
| 21 | No tax system can take account of everything , but many commentators feel that Labour 's proposals do little more than transfer money between different sets of people without taking account of the responsibilities that each has to carry . |
| 22 | The larger and richer farmers often overlook the problems of their weaker colleagues and evolve policies which do little , if anything to help to resolve them but , which are , none the less , promoted as being in the national interest . |
| 23 | The terms underemployment and ‘ disguised ’ unemployment have a negative ring about them and do little to help our understanding of this type of work . |
| 24 | There is a lunatic fringe of schools that will do almost anything to gain publicity — the head in the stocks and throw the wet sponge for 10p brigade do little to enhance their personal status or that of their schools . |
| 25 | The experiments reviewed in this section do little to advance out understanding of the mechanisms involved ( often important control conditions are lacking ) but they do allow the conclusion that there is no fundamental difference between the so-called perceptual and motor test tasks in their susceptibility to acquired equivalence/distinctiveness effects . |
| 26 | The lazy punkas overhead do little to ease the discomfort of the temperature and humidity . |
| 27 | Many of the programmes do little to stimulate the mind and sitting in a chair staring at a screen is not too good for the body either . |
| 28 | The first ‘ Hooligans ’ of the 1890s and the ‘ Garotters ’ of the 1860s do little to kindle nostalgia for Victorian city life and culture . |
| 29 | Furthermore , the typical penalties for those individuals and organisations who are found guilty of corporate crime do little to deter the would-be criminal . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , most of the early studies on owl digestion have been carried out on species that do little damage to the bones of their prey . |