Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There 's a lot they can do though say to control the loggers in Sarouac .
2 In any event , you would do well to strive to avoid the uncertainty of a dispute about the legal effect of words said at a time when tempers flare .
3 And then you have to what you 'll have to do erm do n't bother to change the telly for the moment .
4 The er I I shall pull back slightly on that comment in that , if it 's jointly owned property it 's outside the will you therefore do n't have to prove the will to deal with that property , but if it is a large estate and you are dealing with other assets , when you do your inland revenue account you also have to refer to property you may have had the power of dealing while you were alive and that would include jointly owned property .
5 Contemporaries recognized it too , and although after 1474 there is no suggestion of outright ducal poaching , men from families with Percy affiliations did apparently continue to enter the duke 's service .
6 Contemporaries recognized it too , and although after 1474 there is no suggestion of outright ducal poaching , men from families with Percy affiliations did apparently continue to enter the duke 's service .
7 And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . "
8 He did not want to miss a word .
9 And we did not want to miss the opportunity of having such a wonderful day , complete with the white wedding car .
10 Olszewski was cited as saying that the new coalition did not want to overthrow the authorities and was not oriented towards a putsch .
11 Olszewski was cited as saying that the new coalition did not want to overthrow the authorities and was not oriented towards a putsch .
12 Although it was their wood , a place where they often came , Libby felt herself to be an intruder , she did not want to disturb the figure by the water , who was now breaking pieces of stick and dropping them at his feet .
13 Fru Gertlinger knew that Elisabeth did not want to unpick the past with her and she never made mention of it .
14 They did not want to lose an oar in the wild water .
15 John did not want to see a doctor , but they overrode him this morning and had the quack in .
16 Mr Field has agreed not to make any statement about his next course of action before his 11.30am meeting with Mr Kinnock , but he said that his supporters in Birkenhead had told him they did not want to see a fudge .
17 ‘ I did not want to see the goalkeeper go off .
18 Ĺeonie did not want to see the ambulance from the clinic arrive .
19 Assistant chief leisure services officer Mick Hannon said the Council did not want to replace the competitions already being held .
20 Ed , I think argued a very strong case for a greater level of influence of trade unionists in the Party than is suggested in this reform and I can see the force of those remarks but the C E C adopted the position that we did not want to take a position of dominance to the Party Conference .
21 Gillray , in common with the vast majority of his public , did not want to take the Jacobin side .
22 She did not want to cultivate the snob image .
23 In fact , the only serious problems at this ‘ stage involved children who did not want to leave the security of the one home they knew .
24 Another survey , by The Indy , the weekly paper for young people , found that the British teenager was happy at home and one in three did not want to leave the family nest .
25 She did not want to leave the house now .
26 The non-enrollers who did not want to do a course in the future gave a variety of responses but financial factors , not needing the qualification at work , and being interested only in the ‘ target ’ course were their main reasons .
27 Why do n't you ever mention where your change of clothes come from when you go on those long journeys , I was dying to ask , but I did not want to stop the flow of his fatal attraction and eccentric erudition .
28 It would have been better than staying at home but I did not want to wear a school uniform .
29 But he too , it seemed , did not want to spend an evening with his brother-in-law , but said less about his reasons than the voluble Edward .
30 He could have told this without turning to look ; but he did turn , because he did not want to give the Padre the impression that he was avoiding him .
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