Example sentences of "do [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He discovered in the weeks and months that passed a real passion ; a task that was not only deeply therapeutic , but one that he also found he could do rather well . |
| 2 | It 's the one thing the nation that produced Shakespeare ( albeit 400 years ago ! ) thinks it can do rather well . |
| 3 | THERE is a degree of planetary turmoil to contend with in November although , because much of it is focused in a sign entirely compatible with your own , you may do rather well out of the situation . |
| 4 | I think he 's got a good idea here but if he takes that slant to his story you could do rather well . |
| 5 | Do you know , I think that would do rather well for Ron . |
| 6 | Smiling at her brand-new husband she slid her hand into his , taking him somewhat by surprise although he responded instantly and correctly by giving her short , brown fingers a squeeze and then , realizing he could do rather better , raising them to his lips . |
| 7 | I know but it 's just , waste of time in it ? they 'd been better spent to finish the order that they did have , and inject that , ha oh be fair to do that to use though , no doubt they will , pick out all the things we did n't do right bloody should done too many of this or not enough of that |
| 8 | you can do right okay |
| 9 | For his part , Bush said that the participation of the Soviet Union in the IMF and the World Bank on the basis of the special status granted to it at the G-7 meeting was " the most important thing that the Soviet Union could do right now " . |
| 10 | ‘ Did n't I do all right ? |
| 11 | ‘ Thank you , but I think we can do all right . ’ |
| 12 | We 've gone against the trend and will do all right in the year ahead . |
| 13 | " I told them three days before we can finish repairs , " he told us , " but we can do enough tomorrow to hold us to Banda , if weather is good . " |
| 14 | The fact that the group 's thorough investigation failed to reveal the existence of this mini ‘ statement of purpose ’ either in print or [ more likely ] in preparation could speak volumes for their assertion , repeated at regular intervals , that British Gas do not do enough internally to publicise environmental efforts . |
| 15 | They do n't let me do much yet . |
| 16 | Acid , or LSD , can do much more psychological damage . |
| 17 | It was clear that Jones could do much more detailed neutron measurements than could Fleischmann and Pons , but his data were n't particularly impressive . |
| 18 | " Ca n't do much more here , " he said to his mate , " and the C.I.D . |
| 19 | He says it will probably be stopped by the Serbs and would do much more good where refugees are being cared for in safer territory . |
| 20 | ‘ But I knew I wanted to do more cakes and could do much more interesting things . |
| 21 | It was a chest wound an' I ca n't do much now wivout gettin' out o' breath , ’ he told her . |
| 22 | " I know it was silly really , she 'd already thrown me out so she could n't do much worse really . " |
| 23 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 24 | The West German electorate lacks confidence in Chancellor Kohl and his team , but has yet to be convinced that the SPD , with whatever future coalition partner it chooses , will do much better . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't need it but I 'll do much better than that . |
| 26 | If only the population could just manage , by random drift , to get itself over the knife-edge , it could coast down the slope to the Tit for Tat side , and everyone would do much better at the banker 's ( or ‘ nature 's ’ ) expense . |
| 27 | The person or creature — one of your sub-personalities — starts to argue with you , telling you all the reasons why you are wrong , and why you would do much better to believe that life is full of suffering ! |
| 28 | Mr G Douglas Vaisey also suggests that others should start setting the comps : ‘ I 'm sure we [ we ? ] can do much better than Katie Mallett . ’ |
| 29 | We could do much better with donated books . |
| 30 | By 1939 Europe could meet her own needs of agricultural products only in olive oil and wine ; in 1880 she could still do much better than this . |