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 |