Example sentences of "to do the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trying to do the normal thing can be the cause of accidents with cable breaks and winch failures on smaller gliding sites . |
| 2 | You said that erm your mother would after the confinement and after the birth she would erm have to do the normal housework ? |
| 3 | ‘ Tony Stewart , Phil McNeill and Neil Spencer used to run the NME and Cynthia Rose used to try to do the serious side of it . |
| 4 | Now if I do it at half that speed , if I do if I drive at thirty miles an hour , how long will it take me to do the sixty miles ? |
| 5 | ‘ Because has n't history proved that the English are always trying to do the Irish down ? ’ |
| 6 | Then , suddenly , humping her shoulders , Sophie said , ‘ Well , we 'll have to do the correct thing and inform them that we 're going to set up here . |
| 7 | It is sometimes quite hard for a person to do the unconventional , but that may be the only safe option . |
| 8 | What she 'd been doing was missing breakfasts and lunches and dinners in an effort to accommodate Silvia 's erratic time-keeping — and still failing to do the stipulated six hours a day , she thought to herself with a dart of misery . |
| 9 | Her unnecessary decision to do the dirtiest work in the place struck them as alarming . |
| 10 | Readers are simultaneously voters ; what appeals to them will be of compelling interest to those who need to do the appealing at election time . |
| 11 | That 's what I did , yesterday morning went with my mate came back , stuck it on so it 's cost me the , the pads were seventeen twenty , thirty pound for the what 's a name and fifty quid near enough just to do the front brakes . |
| 12 | That evening Clive could only grin and bear it , but when I told him I would n't be able to do the second summer course he was distinctly cool . |
| 13 | You may remember E. Nesbit , the great children 's writer and inventer of the family of Wouldbegoods , who were very English , trying to do the right thing but often falling over themselves — or others — when it came to practice . |
| 14 | The Corporation wants to do the right thing by you . ’ |
| 15 | Out to prove that , hey , not everything from Watford is Second Division material , the quartet are at that warming ‘ promising ’ stage , trekking down the demo trail with sprightly aplomb and a cunning awareness of how to do The Right Thing , naturally . |
| 16 | X marks the spot : when it comes to promotion , American movie companies sure know how to do the right thing |
| 17 | I ca n't say I was enamoured of the prospect of paying £150 entrance fee and about the same in annual subscription , but keen to do the right thing , I asked Robert Balfour , then Chairman of the Scottish Arts Council and Dawyck Haig to propose and second me . |
| 18 | Arnie may be coining it with the Planet Hollywood eateries , but he 's still doing his best to do the right thing with the loss-making Schatzis in Santa Monica . |
| 19 | Try to force them to do the right thing . |
| 20 | He was an effortless survival of the 1930s , where fiction had abounded in well-meaning young men who had striven to Do the Right Thing and come to grief , at least till the last page of the story . |
| 21 | Wooster , after all , in the inter-war Jeeves stories , was eternally trying to do the Right Thing and succeeding ( if at all ) only on the last page of the story . |
| 22 | A worthwhile person is always confident : he does not feel uncertain about the effects of his actions or doubt his ability to do the right thing . |
| 23 | He 's quite willing to do the right thing by the girl . |
| 24 | ‘ The bottom line ’ , says one western ambassador , ‘ is that he is one of the few leaders on this continent who appears to care about his people and we therefore trust him to do the right thing . ’ |
| 25 | If , like honesty , morality is best policy , it will pay us to do the right thing . |
| 26 | It addresses the question whether it would in fact pay us to do the right thing . |
| 27 | Most certainly , it would pay us to do the right thing . |
| 28 | Good God , give the blighter a chance to do the right thing . " |
| 29 | He was only a boy , hardly out of drama school and scared stiff and , by the time he 'd pulled himself together and gone back to do the right thing by her , the girl had disappeared . |
| 30 | He was eager to do the right thing . |