Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Informix says Storm means less work for MIS departments because users do n't have to understand the database schema and can do more work themselves with the tools . |
| 2 | Those who acquiesce in this cynical co-incidence of interest would do well to apply themselves to the conclusions of the recent Ramblers ' Association study on Birds and Walkers : ‘ this work suggests that there is no reason to prohibit public access , but that careful management is required . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman would do well to familiarise himself with the keep warm this winter campaign run by the Scottish Office which has received every support from local authorities the length and breadth of Scotland . |
| 4 | They rushed out into Regent 's Park — out of earshot — and Simon told her , yes of course he was forcing her hand , it was blackmail : he did love her so , she was the right one for him and he 'd take her tomorrow on five hundred pounds , if someone would lend them to him , and he did rather fancy himself as a married man at twenty-one . |
| 5 | Ludens was a historian , but certainly did not regard himself as a Jewish historian . |
| 6 | The laissez-faire leader also made suggestions , but was more ‘ standoffish ’ and did not involve himself with the boy 's welfare , nor did he join in the group activities , so that the boys were effectively left to do what they wanted by themselves . |
| 7 | He listened , but he did not involve himself in the affairs of his friends , except on the level of gossip . |
| 8 | He did not broadcast himself until the Saturday evening ( K May ) , and then used much less provocative language than most of his colleagues would have chosen . |
| 9 | The performers whom the young Elvis heard and learned from — gospel singers , blues men like Arthur Crudup , Bill Broonzy , Junior Parker and Howlin' Wolf , country and western stars such as Bob Wills , Hank Williams and Roy Acuff — were commercial artists ; they , like Elvis himself , did not separate themselves from the whole wash of music that was available . |
| 10 | Moreover , the policing of the picket line was organised and controlled by local police officers according to a ‘ hearts and minds ’ philosophy : the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire sensibly recognised that almost every family in Sheffield had connections with the steelworkers and was keen to ensure that the police did not alienate themselves from the wider community . |
| 11 | Tarvaras was a quarantine world , cut off from contact with the rest of the universe by orbiting weapons platforms which were programmed to destroy any craft which did not identify itself with the appropriate recognition codes , and it had seemed unlikely that the civilian survey crew would be tempted to break the stringent regulations which applied to the situation . |
| 12 | Professor Davis noted that the industries which expanded before 1780 did not transform themselves in the dramatic way we have come to know as an industrial revolution . |
| 13 | None of the band are known for their excessive cordiality towards figures within the business , but unlike Charman , their misgivings did not manifest themselves in the form of ill temper . |
| 14 | ‘ You did not treat yourself to a snack in an ABC or Lyons , then , ’ said Neil , gratefully drinking his own fresh cup of tea . |
| 15 | Another kind developed in which the elaborated worm did not attach itself to the sea floor but continued to crawl about and secreted a small conical tent of shell under which it could huddle when in danger . |
| 16 | An hotel-keeper become bankrupt , the yearly lease terminated and the trustee did not offer himself as a tenant , and the bankrupt 's wife became tenant . |
| 17 | And , like mine , it did not lend itself to the sort of conclusion Berkeley wanted to draw , to the effect that we are not justified in calling material things hot and cold . |
| 18 | In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic . |
| 19 | When Malaysia turned attention to export promotion , local manufacturers eligible for export incentives ‘ did not avail themselves of the facility either because of ignorance or owing to the cumbersome procedures ’ ( Ariff and Hill , 1985 ) . |
| 20 | Masculine development did not detach itself from the nourishing mother . |
| 21 | ‘ And I shall tell you , my Lord Coroner , how Edmund Brampton , steward to Sir Thomas Springall , did not hang himself in the garret of that house in Cheapside ! ’ |
| 22 | The lasting pattern of this world-market agriculture did not establish itself until the period of the imperialist world economy of 1870–1930 . |
| 23 | In accordance , however , with the normal practice , the court considered the whole case and did not confine itself to the objections in point of form to the surrejoinder . |
| 24 | This view did not commend itself to the pope . |
| 25 | But she did not see herself like the archaeologist , because for her , there was a way out . |
| 26 | But she undercuts this realization with footnotes which describe similarities , but no differences , in the articulation of gender in homosexual relationships ; and which parallel the unconscious splits generated by discourses of gender , with those generated by racist discourses : ‘ When I made generalisations about women ( almost always derogatory ) , I did not include myself in the group I was talking about … . |
| 27 | The work of Piaget ( 1950 ) and Chomsky ( 1957 ) is essentially about thinking and language or psycholinguistics , but these authors did not concern themselves with the level of problem which arises when , for example , a physiologist and a psychologist attempt to exchange mutually supportive ideas . |
| 28 | He did not concern himself with the business of creating such a society , only with the description of what it ought to be like : the actual propositions in the book are not to be taken literally , in other words , since he was offering only the ideal model of a better civilization . |
| 29 | Generally , though , I did not concern myself with a batsman 's standing . |
| 30 | Others are those who did not adventure themselves on the Crusade , but stayed to maintain the rights of their absent lords in their proper manors and castles , but as the years passed and their lords did not return they have been turned out from their posts of trust . ’ |