Example sentences of "to do [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gordon Selfridge , who went on to do rather well himself in the department-store business , started as one of Marshall 's clerks . |
| 2 | Comparing two spectra , which involves taking into account band shapes and intensities as well as frequencies , is one of the tasks the human eye/brain seems to do rather well . |
| 3 | ‘ We thought that acquisitions were very important to do right now because of the economy — we have a short-term window . |
| 4 | ‘ You mean what am I going to do with these guys , or what am I going to do right now ? ’ |
| 5 | So what I 'd like to do right now is explain how System Ten will be the way to deliver enterprise client server solutions . |
| 6 | Given the chance , what she would most like to do right now was to grab her belongings and plant her feet very firmly back on shore . |
| 7 | I feel , rather than see , Moira suddenly remembering that she has an awful lot of things to do somewhere else . |
| 8 | You are welcome to serve my meals in my room , there is plenty for me to do alone upstairs . ’ |
| 9 | Caroline seems to do all right . ’ |
| 10 | The thing to do perhaps tomorrow morning to phone Ipswich Marks to see if they 've got them in stock . |
| 11 | People might also resist change because of peer group pressure to do so even though , off the record , they may acknowledge the changes as beneficial . |
| 12 | They seem likely to continue to do so even after the reserve policy has been replaced by an interim policy of providing maintained protection for a list of specific products with the potential to compete with foreign products . |
| 13 | I liked him as soon as I met him and came to do so even more over the ensuing months . |
| 14 | Therefore the buyers were entitled to refuse to accept delivery because the sellers had committed a breach of condition ( i.e. of section 13 ) and the buyers were entitled to do so even if they would have suffered no loss by having the tins packed in cases of 24 instead of cases of 30 . |
| 15 | Similarly : ( 10 ) I only offered her legal advice will , under one natural interpretation , refer to advice on legal matters ; and it will continue to do so even if in some rare case it is given under circumstances that mean it is offered illegally itself , for example if it makes use of secret information stolen from a government which prohibits unauthorized possession or transmission of secret government information ; on the other hand , as a phrase of English , it can perfectly well bear the other interpretation under which it means advice which is itself legal , in the sense that it is legally given , in which case it may concern any subject under the sun . |
| 16 | Some like Seronatus and Victorius moved to do so even before 476 . |
| 17 | He had taken the money to pay off debts and had continued to do so even when bereaved relatives were desperate for cash to pay undertakers ' bills . |
| 18 | He had taken the money to pay off debts and had continued to do so even when bereaved relatives were desperate for cash to pay undertakers ' bills . |
| 19 | In the next scene Macbeth , speaking alone and with no need to deceive anyone ( given the convention in Elizabethan drama that what characters say in soliloquy is true ) , admits the evil of their ‘ deep intent ’ : Duncan is ‘ clear ’ , really has that freedom from guilt or stain that his wife had urged Macbeth to assume : in a sense he tries to do so here , in his defence of Duncan 's right to be treated with love and respect , and in his invocation of ‘ pity ’ , that constant test of humanity in Shakespeare . |
| 20 | In the Sheriff Court , there are fourteen days to enter appearance , but to do so here it is necessary to produce to the Sheriff Clerk the Service Copy Writ so that he can satisfy himself from when the fourteen days is calculated . |
| 21 | Thanks also to everyone who helped the kitchen to do so well . |
| 22 | Dinah resolved to do so well that whether or not the young woman came back , they would keep her , Dinah Asshe , on . |
| 23 | I never expected to do so well , and still ca n't believe it . ’ |
| 24 | We always seem to do so well here . ’ |
| 25 | Again local inspectors do not seem to do so well in engendering trust . |
| 26 | And I wanted to do so well . |
| 27 | Those firms which get caught in the middle appear not to do so well . |
| 28 | The very freedom from mass accountability which allows it to do so also makes it difficult for leaders to know what society is thinking : without mechanisms for making needs known and understood , Polish and Soviet leaders simply can not know what the consequences of a rise in food prices or of other policy shifts will be . |
| 29 | Similarly , buyers of goods susceptible to being sold without a right to do so also need notice to determine the advisability , as well as the validity of acquisition . |
| 30 | Certainly one is not under an obligation to look after the child if one did not promise to do so just because it would have been a good thing to promise . |