Example sentences of "[pers pn] do no " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would love more people to be aware of the sometimes painfully beautiful music that Gál wrote , but ( and I do no injustice to his shade ) I would n't try to convince anyone of his stature on the basis of the music for mandolin and piano recorded here : it seems to have been composed for the sheer enjoyment of the players — well-tuned , amiable , and slightly unmemorable stuff . |
| 2 | I do no man any harm and perhaps may achieve a great good . |
| 3 | I do no productive work ; I never really go to art school . |
| 4 | I do no more than listen to them talking . |
| 5 | Fortunately it was the first class in English literature , so I did no more than introduce myself and give the reading assignment for the next week . |
| 6 | Street Ceremonies arose as a result of a recent trip to Mexico ; I did no painting while there , but relied upon my memory , trying to recall the things that really mattered such as street sounds . |
| 7 | I did no work that I can remember — I know I was considered hopeless by my teachers and I was quite ready to believe I was hopeless — I can quite well remember keeping mice at the back of the classroom and I can remember the smell . |
| 8 | I intend no harm to her if she 'd have left her squealings and I did no harm neither but to myself . |
| 9 | ‘ I did no such thing . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I did no such thing . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I did no such thing , ’ Marianne retorted fiercely . |
| 12 | ‘ I did no such thing ! ’ |
| 13 | Ai n't you doing no more ? |
| 14 | Dr Marshall , who as a vegan eats no animal products , agreed that she had eaten in her room , but said that she did no cooking . |
| 15 | ‘ She does no harm , ’ Simon said , ‘ no harm at all . ’ |
| 16 | Gauss 's law is valid , and afterwards we did no more than added the field due to the two charges . |
| 17 | We did no drama , music or practical science . |
| 18 | Hoping to get the answer that one of the first things we did no rising was to wash , I was a little disconcerted when my same little lady piped up ‘ weight ourselves ’ . |
| 19 | If , looking at the Mediterranean world from our Western and Northern viewpoint , we do no more than take note of the removal of North Africa from the scene of Latin Christianity , we shall scarcely have begun to come to grips with the size of the problem . |
| 20 | We do no harm . " |
| 21 | The failure to find trade outlets in a world dominated by the French , British , Belgian and Dutch colonial holdings led Germany to penetrate the Slav east — the Balkans in particular — but there , as in Prussia , they did no more than provoke Slav nationalism . |
| 22 | I had the impression they did no more than glance in as they passed , as Filmer was saying ‘ … when we get to Winnipeg . ’ |
| 23 | Of course , he knew that the lasers did n't hurt ; you could n't see them and they did no harm by themselves , but he knew that they were another of the ways that they — the Tormentors — took points off him . |
| 24 | And then in the herring fishing time , oh it was very busy right enough , and you see they did they did no fish on a Sunday and they would come in on a Saturday night . |
| 25 | They did not need to overwork ; they did no more than they chose to do , and yet earned what they needed . |
| 26 | They did no damage but only left unmatched earrings in her bedroom . |
| 27 | Many of these insect-feeding birds have a line of bristles around their beaks which at one time were thought to channel weakly-flying insects into the open beak but now it seems more likely that they do no more than protect the birds ' eyes as they deliberately plunge through clouds of insects . |
| 28 | They do no more than show that the legislature has not shrunk , where it has seemed appropriate , from interfering in a greater or lesser degree with the immunities grouped under the title of the right to silence . |
| 29 | the way that bloody Mike sees , some of them do no work over there till he goes back . |
| 30 | Did it do no more than keep a subsistence economy running ? |