Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what could be done both to protect us from crime and to make us less fearful ? |
| 2 | There chips just a tiny bit well you see you do n't do it with style the way me and Emma do take you to Palma sit on a bench eating them ! |
| 3 | All you want to do is , all you wanted to do just strike it in middle of glass go round it just |
| 4 | Ellen ignored my advice while I , obedient to the rule that if a job needed doing then do it without delay , found a pot of white paint and dug through the locker for a clean brush . |
| 5 | Now , even in it took us some , some time to get the situation under control but we did eventually get it under control but , as I say , not without a lot of misgivings and very very strong complaints from the public at large . |
| 6 | With Mel Blyth alongside and John Jackson in goal , John was part of the triumvirate who did most to keep us in Division one for four seasons . |
| 7 | It is doubtful how many of those who bestow gifts of coral on infants appreciate that their forebears did so to protect them from bewitchment . |
| 8 | And if I handle all with my own hands , and keep the prince clear of it — though he knows my mind , and it is his mind , too — I do so to preserve him from harassment by those who will hear of nothing less than Owen 's head on London Bridge . |
| 9 | You do better to hang me from mango tree without more ado about nothing . " |
| 10 | Wherever she went , there would always be the knowledge deep within her that she loved Rourke , and that he did not love her in return . |
| 11 | Dennis Clark yesterday told John Turner , 30 , that society would be outraged if he did not send him to prison . |
| 12 | I did not send them to school again for many years . |
| 13 | A fourth option I did not mention it in Committee is to sell the property separately but arrange for it to be leased to the bus operating company . |
| 14 | Her ill health did not prevent her from painting , from being politically active in the communist movement nor from leading a rich life . |
| 15 | Although Colonel Newnham-Davis consistently pleaded for more varied menus and shorter meals , this did not prevent him from ordering and eating , with evident enjoyment and approval , what seems to-day a perfectly astounding meal . |
| 16 | Fabia gathered that he approved of her walking shoes , but , even so , it did not stop him from warning , somewhat severely , I 'm not turning back in five minutes . ’ |
| 17 | She took the men 's cheers as somehow directed at herself , at her person , not at the food alone , but unlike the chorus that might greet the appearance of some women of the town , they did not place her in danger , and she allowed herself a small smile in acknowledgement , and came forward to set the dish down . |
| 18 | At least by the eleventh century every king expected to recruit a part of his army by paying mercenaries , or from knights who received a fee not in land , but in cash ; though he did his best to make his great nobles provide contingents for which he did not have to pay , or ( at least in the twelfth century ) pay him in cash if they did not serve him in person . |
| 19 | Although the Chicago School made passing reference to Freud 's work in discussing the biotic level , it did not explore it in detail , perhaps because it was not fully available in English during the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 20 | Maybe they simply see the ark as a visible guarantee of God 's presence and of victory , but that understanding of it is no better , for then they turn it into an idol , ascribe to it magical powers , and leave us asking why they did not take it into battle in the first place . |
| 21 | At least in the youth game the referee has a very clear directive as to who should be awarded the put-in ; the side who did not take it into ruck or maul . |
| 22 | The book goes on to quote Stephen Jay Gould , the noted Harvard palaeontologist , as saying : We avoid the excellent question , What good is 5 percent of an eye ? by arguing that the possessor of such an incipient structure did not use it for sight . |
| 23 | He did not recognise it as hope . |
| 24 | For example , we would be surprised if the police did not wear a particular uniform or if a traffic warden did not book us for parking on a yellow line . |
| 25 | He did not keep her in suspense . |
| 26 | Jean 's own mother , who had been a domestic servant , wanted her daughter to go into service too , and certainly did not push her into printing . |
| 27 | In Bateman itself the accused took part of the victim 's uterus away during childbirth and did not remove her to hospital for five days . |
| 28 | Tour operators were cutting their allocations on planes and in hotels but even this did not save them from bankruptcy . |
| 29 | She did not provide him with wine , to be sure , but he took it in the caffè he frequented , a caffè where politics were argued over far into the night and the arguers fell asleep at the table . |
| 30 | One was new and had come instead of his uncle who was ill , but the guards would not let him in because they did not know him by sight and they nearly threw him into the ditch before they would even let him go home . |