Example sentences of "[adv] do [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ This would force Langbaurgh Council and Northumbrian Water to get together to do something about the terrible sewage problems there . ’ |
| 2 | And they only do it to the angry ones . |
| 3 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 4 | That , that 's a sensible kind of conclusion to draw and perhaps this would meet Kirsty 's point as well , because the what you might be tempted to say is look erm , in our cultures we have , we have absorbed from our cultures ways of seeing the world , bits about history and things restructure our thoughts and even when we try and do something new , I 'd say let's have a revolution everybody , put up your barricades , you know , actually we had some great fun in the sixties with that erm the , when this happens there 's a tendency to nevertheless do it in the traditional way , in other words although obviously the sixty eight revolution was about a completely different issue than the seventeen ninety eight revolution , it was very much later in history . |
| 5 | Todd Nielson became a medical researcher , and finally did something about the ageing process . |
| 6 | But then again you can also do it with the various screen-based editors like Melbourne Draw for substantially less than £143.75 . |
| 7 | He 'd left the local school as early as his birthday would allow and had n't really done anything for the following year except watch his father die . |
| 8 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 9 | I mean , as you say , I cover all the points but because you do n't do them in the right order perhaps you muck them up |
| 10 | The GenTech labs could n't do anything about the common cold and no government had been able to develop a workable public transport system , but when it came to deathware , why , there were wonderful new toys on the market every fall , just in time for Christmas . |
| 11 | Er , a few handlebars and whatever else and , but , but but do n't do it like the British bikers , do it like an American bar , so it can be cleaned and |
| 12 | Now it 's naughty with a capital N. So you do n't do it , or you do n't do it in the normal way , which is relying on somebody inside a company to tell you things . |
| 13 | But we have n't done it for the past eighteen months . |
| 14 | For instance the , the doctors in the hospitals had a lot of work because people rushed into jogging who were n't fit for it or were n't doing it with the right conditions . |
| 15 | And then do it with the other leg . |
| 16 | He disapproved of his bishop ( A. A. David ) for the tough way in which he handled three recalcitrant Anglo-Catholic priests who refused to conform to rules laid down by the bishop and yet did nothing about the radical dean of the cathedral who did things equally nonconforming in a Low Church direction . |
| 17 | The north should stop tut-tutting about juridical lapses or dictatorial ways and instead do something about the low commodity prices and the debt burdens that make the poor even poorer . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's disgusting , ’ contributed Mrs Harper from time to time , presenting her flat , mean , worthless little counter simply because she could not bear to remain silent , to sit back where others played , although she recognized herself temporarily outnumbered , ‘ disgusting , I call it , ’ and Shirley , hearing this phrase for the millionth time , had a vision of households all over Britain in which censorious , ignorant old bags like her mother-in-law , who had never done anything for the public good , who had nothing positive ever to contribute to any argument , passed judgement on others while stuffing themselves with goose and roast potatoes and sprouts and apple sauce . |
| 19 | ‘ You never do anything right , you never do anything for the right reasons . |