Example sentences of "not do [pron] at " in BNC.
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1 | You can not do everything at the same time . |
2 | If you can not do everything at once , or want to start making staged improvements , either concentrate on your first priorities ( leaving space for the next stages ) or your worst problems-depending on whether you are planning a first-time kitchen or updating an existing one . |
3 | Most countries organize censuses of their population on something like ten-yearly intervals , but not all do , and they certainly do not do them at the same point in time . |
4 | ‘ Why not do it at 'ome ? ’ |
5 | Anything less and we might as well not do it at all . |
6 | My response to these people is , if you can , t do the thing properly , then , please , do not do it at all . |
7 | She would not do it at all . |
8 | ‘ I do n't — yes , I could do that , ’ said Caspar , who could not do it at all , but could see that there was no other answer to be given . |
9 | Why not do it at home , away from the distractions of the office , is the important thing . |
10 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
11 | Peer pressure is a factor , but not necessarily in a coercive way ; a teenager who is n't sure how to smoke a joint will be more worried about losing face from doing it wrong than not doing it at all . |
12 | But it 's not doing it at the moment , although there 's |
13 | You 're not doing it at the party ? |
14 | ‘ Terry and I tried to cut back on the silly stories by not doing anything at all , but then they attacked the fact that we were n't doing anything , ’ she said . |
15 | Erm you 're now you 're not doing anything at the moment , we we agreed it was resting . |
16 | Oh she 's erm , she 's not doing anything at the moment because erm |
17 | things like this , but regards to the fact that when , when something is sold to somebody right , erm , and then a , and , and the person who 's selling it receives the money , I mean the person the police ca n't do nothing at all about it unless fraud comes into it |
18 | A lot of students go through the system and do n't do anything at all with their training . |
19 | Living too far away from things : a ) does n't do anything at all , b ) extends the nose so much that it sags and closes down , c ) allows the nose to examine other things which are too close and therefore blunts it again . |
20 | Some do n't do anything at all , they 're just there in the , in the name alone and if anything does happen they 'll into action . |
21 | He so concentrated on his dialogue — I never had to reshoot a scene because Kenny fluffed a line — that he could n't do anything at the same time as he was talking . ’ |
22 | So we , we have three categories , we do n't do anything at all , we do something fairly menial like washing away petrol or disconnecting batteries , or we rescue people . |
23 | She would n't do it at the time , because she felt the whole issue ought to be allowed to settle down . |
24 | If we ca n't do it at least we can hear about it . ’ |
25 | Please continue a positive attitude to gay issues , or do n't do it at all . |
26 | He added : ‘ Ferzana wanted to watch TV and could n't do it at the family gathering . ’ |
27 | As regards to homework , I just got on with it myself or did n't do it at all . ’ |
28 | Verbal messages become more hostile , more aggressive , and the threat of rejection may be offered ( ‘ If you ca n't do it this way , do n't do it at all' — fail and you must go elsewhere ) . |
29 | As Sam Snort always says , those that talk about it most , do it least , and those who talk about it least do n't do it at all . |
30 | ‘ AS SAM SNORT ALWAYS SAYS , THOSE THAT TALK ABOUT IT MOST , DO IT LEAST , AND THOSE WHO TALK ABOUT IT LEAST DO N'T DO IT AT ALL . ’ |