Example sentences of "to do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember , I 'm used to doing just that — as a foreign correspondent . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You know we have a department devoted to doing just that . |
| 3 | A large part of its brain is devoted to doing just that , and gives the owl a " sound map " of the area around it . |
| 4 | The modifications which adjudication has been subjected to in the realm of statutory inquiries come close to doing just this . |
| 5 | This means it is committed to doing exactly the right thing . |
| 6 | I do n't I mean I know I I 'm very busy , I 've got stuff that I should have done , months and months ago , that I have n't got round to doing yet , cos there 's been all sort of interruptions . |
| 7 | Don Burrell had long recognised that there were " two Janes " ; the Jane who knew she was too good a player not to win and the Jane who recognised that there was far less pressure attached to doing badly than doing well . |
| 8 | She would be the first woman Lord Chancellor , but her love of hunting could prove an embarrassment to a party committed to doing away with the sport . |
| 9 | Doing away with authorial intention opens the way to doing away with the notion of unitary meaning in the text , since without some evidence about intentions it is usually impossible to reduce even everyday linguistic ambiguities . |
| 10 | Former Downing Street press secretary Sir Bernard Ingham has agreed to become a vice-president of Country Guardian , a pressure group dedicated to doing away with windfarms . |
| 11 | But none of the gunmen looked like they were up to doing very much of anything . |
| 12 | T'owd dear was n't up to doing much better by the chocolates , having problems wi' sugar in her water , so I did well out o' that . |
| 13 | For example the erm , Frank referred to doing quite well and some of that was due to sales into the former Soviet Union . |
| 14 | None of this meant that American companies were no longer interested in financing British filmmakers or even British ideas , but they were no longer committed to doing so , and did n't expect to be sufficiently involved to justify keeping offices in London . |
| 15 | While not explicitly using this argument , Rawls comes close to doing so in saying that |
| 16 | A good round followed by a poor one often means a missed cut , and it is very difficult to put two rounds together on consecutive days if you have not been used to doing so . |
| 17 | Jack Ashley 's Bill would have come far closer to doing so by requiring that belief in consent must be reasonable . |
| 18 | I look forward to doing so . |
| 19 | He would go some way to doing so if he told the House tonight that he intends to monitor carefully what is happening and to initiate independent research into the strengths and weaknesses of the new system in its initial stages . |
| 20 | Each of the parties further recognises that , by reason of my acting in such capacity , I will , in performing my duties hereunder ( but subject to doing so honestly and in good faith ) , be immune from all actions and proceedings whatsoever arising out of or in connection with my appointment hereunder . |
| 21 | The draftsman should give consideration to doing so in all renewal leases ( see Form 15 ) but if this is done , the tenant 's adviser must ensure that all necessary ancillary rights are expressly granted by the lease . |
| 22 | Also , Tabitha never quite got around to doing as much maintenance as she meant to . |
| 23 | I mean perhaps it 's not something there used to doing too much , but is it not possible to get them to amuse themselves ? |
| 24 | When you come to doing along on the other side make sure they 're beautiful parallel |
| 25 | As it happens , my right hon. Friend the Chancellor devoted most of his speech to doing precisely that , but I did not detect a great deal of interest on the Opposition Benches in what he had to say . |
| 26 | The sturdy Scot , who came so close to doing precisely that at Pebble Beach 12 months ago , is convinced the gruelling par-70 course demands wonderful , long iron play . |
| 27 | Here the person referred to did not expect to be alone at the bar . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , two of the people I spoke to did n't know there was more than one strip on the race-course and the one who did — a non-pilot — failed to tell me that Newbury was busy building a new runway in the centre of the course . |
| 29 | Oh you saw er you 'd seen this because er you had friends all over , I mean , the fact that you went to did n't er tt get rid of all your friends . |
| 30 | Well I thought that cycling built power in the leg muscles , it 's , I mean it ought to did n't it ? |