Example sentences of "do [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The method employed may be a postal questionnaire sent out to hundreds , or even thousands , of possible respondents — in which case the ‘ going out ’ is being done rather at one step removed — but in this case the data are actually coming from a sample of people , even though no personal contact is made . |
| 2 | But there is little doubt that charter-train profit can be read in seven-figure sums rather than six and that as a business venture , InterCity has not done badly at all . |
| 3 | It has done so at the expense of sharp cuts in living standards and in expenditure on its long-established system of social services and free education . |
| 4 | In the past she would have done so at once ; not now . |
| 5 | I 'm equally confident that the higher direction of MI5 and those operating today do not have anything to do with this , nor have they done so at any time . |
| 6 | As the banks , building societies and credit companies try to boost profits , many have been slow to pass on the reductions — and some have not done so at all . |
| 7 | They had done so at little cost to the state or to the better-off taxpayer . |
| 8 | If Sabine had wanted to break away and work on her own she could have done so at any time . |
| 9 | If he had ever wanted to see her socially he could have done so at any time , but there had been only chance meetings since his marriage . |
| 10 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 11 | He remembered falling , and the deck coming up to hit him , which brought back the sensation — although it had n't done so at the time — of the moment just before the torpedo hit Lanark . |
| 12 | Or , at least , she had done so at the Young Conservatives ' Summer Dance in July . |
| 13 | The government has long made it clear that sterling would enter the Exchange Rate Mechanism during stage one of economic and monetary union which began in July ; it has now done so at the earliest appropriate time . |
| 14 | These tasks appear to be done better at night with a general decline throughout the daytime to lowest values in the early evening . |
| 15 | ‘ I think she had done enough at the end and it was beginning to hurt , ’ Elsworth said . |
| 16 | That is not Mr Lawson 's fault , of course , but he has to live with the danger that while the world 's capital markets will duly bridge the gap between Britain 's domestic savings and investment , they will only do so at a lower price for sterling . |
| 17 | Another thing , sociology would seem to be saying that those who have wealth and do well do so at the expense of the poor unfortunate . |
| 18 | Though the group believes Britain should join , it warns that it should only do so at an exchange rate of around DM2.40 to the pound — involving a 15 per cent devaluation from the current DM2.79 . |
| 19 | Though the group believes Britain should join , it warns that it should only do so at an exchange rate of around DM2.40 to the pound — involving a 15 per cent devaluation from the current DM2.79 . |
| 20 | But assuming Collor 's Brazil makes it into the ranks of the developed world , it will do so at the lowest level of eligibility , on a par with the East European countries . |
| 21 | Joshua 6 ends with a curse pronounced over the charred corpses of the city 's inhabitants , promising anyone who might rebuild the city that he will do so at the cost of the lives of his own children . |
| 22 | If I must vegetate , I 'd rather do so at home , in spite of the undoubtedly superior ménage here . |
| 23 | If a meme is to dominate the attention of a human brain , it must do so at the expense of ‘ rival ’ memes . |
| 24 | A It can do so at any time . |
| 25 | Mark , aware of the problem , records that the reaction of the chief priests and Scribes was to look for some way to get rid of Jesus , but that they could not do so at that moment because Jesus was popular with the people . |
| 26 | Sir George said : ‘ If people want to adopt a nomadic style of life they must remain within the law and should do so at their own expense . ’ |
| 27 | How he could do so at all is something beyond our finite comprehension , and the full significance of the intersection of eternity with time in Jesus is only grasped along with the awareness that it is beyond our power to understand or explain . |
| 28 | Moreover , if the tables are to be turned , the USSR will do so at a time of her choosing , rather than wait for the hour of maximum danger to herself . |
| 29 | While it intends to move into overseas markets , it will do so at its own pace , Brossa added firmly . |
| 30 | Did n't we all do so at her age ? |