Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Commons , Sir Thomas Clarges moved that " a standing Army is destructive to the Country " , whilst his fellow Tory , Edward Seymour , declared that " the safety of the Kingdom doth not consist with a standing force " , adding ( in a way which anticipated Tory arguments used after 1689 ) that " all the profit and security of this Nation is in our Ships , and had there been the least ship in the Channel " , Monmouth could never have landed . |
| 2 | Church unity would do well to build on a foundation such as this , just as grace builds on nature . |
| 3 | So if you are producing a Victorian mystery , for instance , you would do well to think of a plot in terms more of melodrama than if you were writing a book set today . |
| 4 | I mean she does n't she do n't get through a lot of chocolates does she ? |
| 5 | However , it is important to emphasize this step in the process because failure to do so results in a concept of assessment which is limited to a relatively unskilled , technical task of data collection . |
| 6 | Not to do so amounted to a dereliction of duty in the same way that Callaghan 's statement misunderstood the political content of media imagery . |
| 7 | She wants to do bareback ridin' in a circus and show 'er legs like all them circus girls do . |
| 8 | I had to do weekly checks on a car . |
| 9 | She did eventually die of a heart attack but it was nothing to do with Luke . ’ |
| 10 | What did perhaps seem like a continuation of the miracle was the way in which Patrick had regained his healthy appearance and good looks . |
| 11 | A member of parliament unable to gratify a constituent 's wish for a cadetship for his son had to explain that failure , and if age did not intervene as a barrier to future prospects , the politician would be expected to indicate when a successful outcome might be anticipated . |
| 12 | Further it suggested that of those people who did not go to a lawyer , a higher proportion had received help from outside the household , and of that group only one-quarter had received advice to go to a lawyer which they had ignored Such contrary evidence does not denigrate the value of pre-legal advice , but suggests that , as would be expected , it is not the only significant factor in determining whether , and if so why and how , people seek legal advice . |
| 13 | People did not go to a hospital to be cured but to be killed or maimed . |
| 14 | I could not keep food or fluids down and when the symptoms did not go after a couple of days they took me to the hospital and put me on a drip . ’ |
| 15 | No more than one in ten of the items we submit are printed and even the report of Peter 's adoption did not appear until a week later and only then after complaints to the Editor . |
| 16 | Puzzled , he wondered if she had gone upstairs to her children , which she did not do as a rule , and was about to ascend ; when from up there came a great cry , and the sound of a fall from the window . |
| 17 | They did not talk for a minute or so , studiously examining every inch of the tablecloth or the other diners . |
| 18 | For , among other reasons , Turks did not fit into a Zuwaya genealogy ; in theory , it is possible to find all forty shaikhs who appeared from time to time in Zuwaya stories in a genealogy ( although it is only anthropologists who are sufficiently naive to ask which men were the victims and where did they fit in lists of ancestors ) . |
| 19 | The Church did not grow as a result of Protestants reacting to evidence of increased Catholic demands and assertiveness . |
| 20 | Nenna did not answer for a second , and Tilda bellowed : |
| 21 | He did not complain about a friendship betrayed . |
| 22 | There was only one way in , by the drawbridge and the gate-towers ; he had racked his brains for an alternative , but there was none , short of procuring an ally within the walls , and that idea he did not entertain for a moment . |
| 23 | On the dining-room walls today hang generations of Macleods ; Boswell and Johnson were entertained by the 23rd chief , Norman , who did not marry for a decade after the travellers stayed here . |
| 24 | But in the isolation that their riches had brought about , and in their serene acceptance that privilege was their due , they did not anticipate for a moment the press of people Don Antonio Beatillo 's idiosyncratic will would bring to their door . |
| 25 | The farmer did not reply for a moment , then he went up between the cows and gently rubbed Blossom 's forehead " Aye , this is the one , Jack . " |
| 26 | The poster at the end of the tunnel was so large and so perfectly lit that it seemed to O , looking up at it suddenly , that the tunnel did not end in a wall , in fact did not end at all , but led to the green fields of France . |
| 27 | He was educated at Eton and Trinity College , Cambridge , where he did not sit for a degree . |
| 28 | He was diagnosed anti-depressants by his doctor but failed to take them and did not return for a check up two weeks later . |
| 29 | McKee suggests that it was important to them that they did not return to a pre-adult state of dependence upon their parents . |
| 30 | The street system did not accord to a grid pattern . |