Example sentences of "but do [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to do it without damaging the flora and fauna , horse power still reigns supreme . |
| 2 | To lighten what can be quite an anxiety provoking experience , it is sometimes helpful to ask the client to role play a particular situation , but to do it at first , extremely badly . |
| 3 | It takes a special person to handle complaints in any case but to do it for 22 years deserves a special mention , always maintaining a diplomatic and friendly attitude to each individual case . |
| 4 | To get out was a considerable achievement : to go on to etch his own personality on the world was so rare as to be wonderful : but to do it on his own terms , in his own way and to do exactly as he wanted was astounding . |
| 5 | The first time , he asked the man to make love to him right there in the car , not to take him home yet but to do it to him there in the car . |
| 6 | Would , would , would would , but , I mean I 'm quite in favour of people having their genitals mutilated as adults , once they 're over eighteen , they go to hospital and sign a consent form and have it done as long as they pay for it themselves , but to do it to newborn children strikes me as outrageous . |
| 7 | ‘ It is bad enough doing that to the uninitiated , but to do it to the Secretary of State is really beyond the pale — it 's quite pathetic . ’ |
| 8 | That was a plot against Rachel she had never thought of , to take up maths again but to do it in the USA . |
| 9 | Light is cast on the customs of contemporary devotion by the instruction not " climb up to the cross " to kiss Christ 's feet in tears of penitence but to do it in his heart . |
| 10 | But to do it in lane three , to get out and change a tyre is beyond belief . |
| 11 | The tasks themselves — typing , photocopying , collating , stapling — are not intrinsically interesting but doing them with others , who are eager for the same goal , is . |
| 12 | ‘ I could always handle ’ , says Winterbottom , ‘ but doing it under pressure was another matter . |
| 13 | Escaping is bad enough but doing it in the middle of the night is inexcusable . |
| 14 | but doing it in mime |
| 15 | Fiona and Fergus were making the bed , but doing it in a funny sort of way ; the bottom sheet had been doubled up half-way down the bed . |
| 16 | What is at issue is whether improved resource levels should be used to make special schools internally more satisfactory , doing what they have historically done but doing it in some sense more efficiently , or whether those resources are used in an attempt to improve the general education service in ways which might reduce its need for transferring pupils to special schools . |
| 17 | Hold special events erm linen sales , bric-a-brac , anything that 's got an appeal to the public , but do it through the window . |
| 18 | Be ready at all times to answer anyone who asks you to explain the hope you have in you , but do it with gentleness and respect . |
| 19 | ‘ Be ready at all times to answer anyone who asks you to explain the hope you have in you , but do it with gentleness and respect ’ ( 1 Pet . |
| 20 | Rather than just putting these numbers into your I mean you will put these numbers into your calculator , but do it with that , leave leave your C R out of it and just keep it as T. |
| 21 | The subject fascinated him ; he always talked about money ; but did it with such an ingenuous enthusiasm that the effect was not alienating . |
| 22 | The confidence of Pericles ' exposition is magnificent ; but did he after all ‘ understand what was needed ’ ? |
| 23 | Anyone who has served with him at the Department — and I am talking not just about his present ministerial team — knows that he not only brings a greater degree of expertise to his job than anyone I can remember but does it with great inventiveness in terms of improving benefits and with an exceptional degree of compassion and , above all , integrity . |