Example sentences of "[vb -s] do in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The child looks done in ; let her have the bath and the food she asks for . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The committee express their thanks for the work he has done in a voluntary capacity over the past months . |
| 5 | When the banner of religion is raised as a banner of politics , blood will flow , just as it has done in Belfast , Beirut and Colombo . |
| 6 | I think now that her predominance has done in justice to lesser things in my life , as indeed it may still do . |
| 7 | It does not of itself forgive , rather it sets forth what God has done in Christ . |
| 8 | Looking at the world , and in particular Europe , today it is hard to see how anything the CIA has done in the past 40 years has significantly affected the map of freedom . |
| 9 | MAFF did not conduct a farm by farm assessment to define boundaries as DAFS ( Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland ) has done in Scotland because the manpower requirement would have been enormous and the work would have taken , according to MAFF , 8–10 years to complete for England and Wales . |
| 10 | To drill beneath an ore body , as the ICRDG has done in Cyprus , is to study the plumbing of a fossilised black smoker . |
| 11 | There is the thought that this story might fulfil me as nothing ever has done in all my life previous to this . |
| 12 | County clubs , meanwhile , can help by welcoming former players , be they great or small , and in particular by forming old player associations , as Somerset has done in the last few seasons , as some have been doing for decades . |
| 13 | Consequently saturation street parking emerges as just as serious a problem as it has done in Mainz , particularly near the busy perimeter roads with their shops and offices . |
| 14 | We did not want the ANL to claim credit for the march by swamping it with its placards ( as it has done in the past ) when it played no part in the march 's organisation . |
| 15 | A witness is someone who can and is ready to speak from personal experience of what Christ has done in his or her life . |
| 16 | That is to say , credit should figure far more prominently in education than it has done in the past . |
| 17 | Also I would like to say Joshua Galvin , for all the unsung work he has done in British hairdressing ’ . |
| 18 | Switchboard as an organization has probably had some effect on more of us , as callers and as volunteers , than any other single campaign or group has done in the recent history of lesbian and gay rights in this country . |
| 19 | Since the level of owner-occupation is rising , and the number of future retirees entitled to some form of contributory pension will exceed the current number , it seems likely that private saving will play a greater role in determining the economic status of the elderly in the future than it has done in the past . |
| 20 | That may well mean that waste disposal should cost more than it has done in the past . |
| 21 | Nagel refers to Adam Smith whom he takes to be advocating , as a matter of reason , the restriction of moral judgment only to that which the agent has done in a narrow sense because to attribute responsibility for that beyond the agent 's control seems irrational and is akin to strict liability . |
| 22 | Besides , such a prolific writer could hardly be ignored and his popularity moved through many decades by its own momentum , rather as Enid Blyton 's has done in the middle years of the present century . |
| 23 | It may benefit abnormally from transferred votes , as Labour has done in Ireland from 1973 onwards . |
| 24 | At the same time , the concept of the unitary individual subject , on which he relies , should come under fire — as it has done in recent years , under the influence of post-structuralist thought . |
| 25 | While in the long term the mother may well be able to obtain employment in Australia , as she has done in the past , understandably it would not be her wish or intention to do so in the short-term . |
| 26 | Back in the city there were thousand of people doomed , dying and all unnecessarily because here was plenty , here was sufficient for the whole city and possibly the greatest sin that you and I can be guilty of and that the church is generally guilty of , but you know when we talk about the church generally its , its so easy because that 's general , you and I that are the church , not the denomination , not the organization , it you and I , possibly the greatest sin that we can be guilty of is the sin of silence , I 'm not talking now about a rude , belligerent , discourteous , butting hole , button holding of people , I 'm not talking about that , I do n't see any place in gods word for that sort of attitude or that sort of approach but are we still silent , what about with those with whom we have the right , because we 've created a relationship , because they know us and they 've seen us and they 've seen the experiences we 've gone through and they 've seen what god has done in our lives , what about with those people do we wait for others to do it , shifting the responsibility . |
| 27 | The Brazilian Society of Community and General Doctors is seeking to address this situation and could act as a catalyst , advocate , and pressure group , as well as promoting good quality training , just as the Royal College of General Practitioners has done in this country . |
| 28 | In the reflection phase , the learner stands back and looks at what he has done in the investment phase . |
| 29 | I think basically what I 'd like to say today is that I personally agree with what Ida 's saying that it is an attack on the Health Service , and it is the greatest achievement that the Labour Party has done in history in my opinion . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ I 'm delighted with the work he has done in training and the commitment he has shown when I have asked him to play . ’ |