Example sentences of "do [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The manager treats his players like adults and if you do right by him he will do right by you , ’ Goram points out . |
| 2 | If you do right by him he will do right by you ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We wanted to play Dublin but all the venues were booked out months ago , so we 'll have to come back in the New Year and do somewhere like the SFX or the Stadium . |
| 4 | This creates the dilemma illustrated in the project discussed above , of appearing to meet local needs when in fact such actions do little about the real causes of social problems and may indeed aggravate them by uprooting local leaders . |
| 5 | Some 15 years after the start of the modern women 's movement in the US , most men still do little of the housework or child care , still feel enormously threatened by wives who work or ( worse ) earn more than they do , and still abandon their children financially or emotionally after a divorce . |
| 6 | I would also avoid all those bent wire contraptions : they may look attractive in a well photographed catalogue but do little for the design of your garden . |
| 7 | Certainly it had a freshness and credibility about it which was in stark contrast to some of the other end-of-the year events which , however exciting or impressive some individual performances and achievements may have been , still involved direct or incidental features which do little for the public perception of the sport . |
| 8 | In particular , those programmes do little for the two lowest income deciles of the population . |
| 9 | The name ‘ Institute of Education ’ has been used in African universities to describe institutes which do little except train secondary school teachers , but in the sense of a professional centre concerned with various aspects of quality both of teachers and the curriculum they teach , it was first used in Bakht Er Ruda in the Sudan in the 1930's . |
| 10 | In the Newtonian sense of work , as force applied over a distance , land animals do little in getting from here to there . |
| 11 | A major problem is still undoubtedly women 's negative attitudes towards the police stemming from their historically well-founded fears that the police do little in cases of domestic violence , and are unsympathetic to sexual offences . |
| 12 | Some might think that those who do badly at school fare badly at work . |
| 13 | Convergers tended to be more conformist , more authoritarian in their views , have a high IQ , do badly on open-ended tests ( i.e. ones which demanded a certain amount of free expression and imagination ) and specialize in the physical sciences . |
| 14 | The rationale is that such children do badly in examinations and so their exclusion will improve the end product . |
| 15 | ‘ Make sure you do properly under the eaves . ’ |
| 16 | A final twist is given to this situation ; the fact that women do all of this work is often given as an explanation of their inferiority . |
| 17 | If people go to bed and are in bed for a week or more and we do all of that , all that stroking and loving , then when they actually go there 's a relief at them no longer having the pain and the shock . ’ |
| 18 | Mother has to die some day , as do all of us . |
| 19 | ‘ But do all of you actually live inside this tree ? ’ |
| 20 | Do all of what we take to be causal circumstances and causes precede their effects ? |
| 21 | Do all of Ace 's friends have an attitude problem ? ’ |
| 22 | Look up at the light , blink rapidly , breathe deeply from the diaphragm — yes , I do all of those things . |
| 23 | Come home from school — do all of homework . |
| 24 | The death threats had been provoked by Motoshima 's suggestion in December 1988 that Emperor Hirohito ( who was at the time dying of cancer ) bore some responsibility , " as do all of us who lived in that period " , for Japan 's role in the Pacific War of 1941-45 . |
| 25 | That clergy and musicians do all in their power to ensure close and amicable working relationships ( 557–559 , 562 ) . |
| 26 | Therefore , if you are a husband , please do all in your power to put your data in a form which your wife can use . |
| 27 | Despite this , there are instances of visually handicapped pupils who do much for themselves in overcoming their limitations because they are really interested in taking part in sport . |
| 28 | Most surprising of all is The Ride of the Valkyries , whose main dotted rhythm is swallowed up , trivializing its character ; nor do I find that the silent-movie tempo and pinched recording quality do much for the Lohengrin in Act 3 Prelude . |
| 29 | So the government risks a revolt by those rural stalwarts who do much of the legwork during general elections , as well as years of ill-mannered squabbles as the two sets of councillors argue their worth to the commission . |
| 30 | Do much of that sort of thing in your time , Cassie ? ’ |