Example sentences of "do in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eased the cork out of the bottle very quietly , as if I was a maître d' in a very posh restaurant . |
| 2 | An enormous amount of work has been done and perhaps still more remains to be done in arranging works of art in exact sequence of time . |
| 3 | Naipaul 's readers could well have become inclined to ask why it is that his novels seem to say that there is nothing to be done in , or with , the countries of their concern . |
| 4 | Chatterton is as much as anything the famous painting of his death in a Holborn attic done in the 1850s by Henry Wallis — with the poet lying across the bed in a kind of frozen entrechat . |
| 5 | Like other tours de force , it is done in a spirit of play and of emulation . |
| 6 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 7 | But more likely is the possibility that it will continue to respond to events , in the way it has done in the past — and there is no guarantee that the evolution Cox envisages will be any more natural than the modernization of Iran seemed to be in the 1970s . |
| 8 | A small number of empirical studies actually done in Northern Ireland have been invoked in the course of the debate . |
| 9 | Stocktake can be done in half a day with the Psion Organiser |
| 10 | I do n't know how to approach this , but this is me , Sarah , your pathetically vile big sister , not able to find the words , but hoping you can see what I 'm trying to do — what I 'm trying to say — and please , please believe me when I say that I 'm not trying to run away from what I 've done , but if I could change somehow — obliterate — one thing I 've done in my life , one truly awful thing that I have done , it would be this . |
| 11 | There 's too much to be done in the garden to leave it for a week or more . |
| 12 | If research can be done in Holland and the USA , I do n't see why it should n't be done in Britain , except I suspect that some British police forces are just hostile to outsiders . |
| 13 | If research can be done in Holland and the USA , I do n't see why it should n't be done in Britain , except I suspect that some British police forces are just hostile to outsiders . |
| 14 | The functionalist approach to the study of mind characterizes much of the work currently being done in cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence and linguistics . |
| 15 | It is a low cliff , approached by a path , and can be done in all the beauty of the Verdon scenery but with none of the problems of the big cliffs . |
| 16 | Not too much has been done in the mountains , hardly surprising given the length of time they have been dry , but Dai Lampard snatched a great ascent with Mother of Mercy E5 6a . |
| 17 | Although the electronics industry has changed greatly , possible the greatest change is that very little component level manufacture is done in this country . |
| 18 | Furthermore , it can be done in a language with which many EW + WW readers will be totally familiar . |
| 19 | This was evidently done in the friendly but sharp exchanges in Kermode 's seminar in the early seventies . |
| 20 | His major work was done in Russia in the 1930s and 1940s , he suffered Stalinist repression , was partly rehabilitated , and died in 1975 , at a time when very few people in the West had heard of him . |
| 21 | The conveying need not , indeed should not , be done in an authoritarian way . |
| 22 | A literary text is , manifestly , the product of a particular historical situation , and may be interpreted in the light of its origins and initial reception , as has been done in the discussions of Romantic literature by Marilyn Butler and Jerome J. McGann , who can be called New Historicists minus the ideological charge . |
| 23 | For in 1920 , when Binyon began work towards his version of the Inferno , he exchanged letters with Hewlett , who had translated the first canto years before , and now urged Binyon to shorten his measure to tetrameters , pointing out that this was what he himself had done in his ‘ Song of the Plough ’ , a long poem in terza rima in which he had invested a great deal . |
| 24 | The abandonment yesterday of unilateral nuclear disarmament ( although not the intention of abandoning Britain 's nuclear deterrent at the earliest opportunity while other countries keep theirs ) was done in the same spirit of moralism which had gone into the banning of the Bomb . |
| 25 | Warburgs , which acted for BAT , was ranked first in the table , with £23.6bn of deals done in the period . |
| 26 | The decision to ‘ expel ’ the first batch of embassy refugees to the West was a ‘ humanitarian act ’ done in the interests of the many children involved and to avoid epidemics . |
| 27 | A Labour government would start to do what the Tories should have done in the oil-rich years . |
| 28 | By 1952 the contacts Ramsey had made in the US led to her being awarded a Smith-Mundt scholarship and she toured the country speaking as an authority on what was then pioneering work being done in the UK . |
| 29 | ‘ This is not done in anyway to downgrade anyone else . |
| 30 | It was very difficult for a court to say what a reasonable mother would have done in circumstances which were almost hypothetical . |