Example sentences of "do [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hoped Nassim was making enough on the insurance claim to have the job done properly in the not-too-distant future . |
| 2 | A two-run defeat seemed set fair to demoralize England , but their batsmen did not do badly in the second game at Sydney . |
| 3 | Nina was built too late to compete with other accelerators that had done most of the early work , leaving Daresbury with little else to follow up , says Irvine : ‘ It was a classic case of too little , too late . ’ |
| 4 | Sales at Dillons and Ryman are marginally ahead , but Pentos Office Furniture and Athena have done badly in the fourth quarter . |
| 5 | Most of those leaving the cities have done so through the commercial market and they have moved for a variety of reasons ( Kennett and Hall , 1981 ) : more freely-available , cheaper , owner-occupied housing might be found beyond the cities in environmentally-attractive locations ; households are more mobile — car-ownership rates doubled between 1961 and 1981 and the electrification of some InterCity lines has encouraged a marked decentralization of people away from London to areas such as Peterborough , Stamford ( Lincs. ) and even Newark ( Notts. ) ; many move out of cities on retirement ; and for the economically active in the south of England , movement out of London becomes ever more attractive as many commercial activities leave the capital . |
| 6 | After an hour of this , the pike left it alone and when it had done so for the fifth time , El-ahrairah swam across himself and went home . |
| 7 | I have done so with the earnest endeavour to be able to speak to that brief , but I have to start by declaring failure and announcing that the results have been negative . |
| 8 | Or , at least , she had done so at the Young Conservatives ' Summer Dance in July . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They have done so in the first place because of the advantage of high space utilization on limited ground area ; an important asset to companies trying to make the best use of a high value industrial site with no room for extension . |
| 11 | The ANC , for its part will continue to work for the unity of our people and we have no doubt that all those who have participated in attempting to solve this problem have done so in the best interests of our struggle . |
| 12 | She is in good form and hoping to break the 10-hour barrier today , having already done so in the European Ironman in August , where she took an individual bronze and a team gold medal . |
| 13 | And , after all , would you have done so in the same situation ? |
| 14 | Whatever dread and resentment the Soviet regime inspires amongst its own population , that regime has solved the perennial problem of Russia 's vulnerability , and is seen to have done so by the common people of the land . |
| 15 | In an experiment , leaf-cutter ants of the species Atta texana had to follow a trail by walking along a plastic roadway placed just above the trail ; they followed the trail as usual , but must have done so by the airborne odour of evaporated scent . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Britain was indeed committed to entering a free and open European market in 1992 , but it could well do so with the highest inflation rate in western Europe , the worst balance of payments , and the sharpest contraction in the manufacturing base . |
| 18 | If parents choose to proceed on this basis , they should do so with the full understanding that they may be aborting a child capable of experiencing as full and satisfying a life as anyone else . |
| 19 | Such men depended upon success for support : for while du Guesclin might play upon his Breton origin to gather a force ( or route ) around him , the English could not do so with the same ease , and therefore came to rely upon their reputations to draw men to their service . |
| 20 | I shall do so for the last time . |
| 21 | It is not that she believes this evolving female corporate future has yet been reflected by numbers of women employed at senior levels but that it is inevitable it will do so during the next decade . |
| 22 | If I want to leave a room , I must do so by the limited number of means available to me , which will be by the door or the windows ; if they are locked , I can not leave . |
| 23 | Although the argument has been used that the proposed primary school will increase traffic , it will not do so by the same volume . |
| 24 | No more did they do so in the Black Country 's nail-making trade , where the family 's output depended upon women as well as men working at the anvil . |
| 25 | This was good ; what was even better — and the more remarkable , given that the gentleman was French — was that he would do so in the proper manner : with little apparent effort on his part , with a negligent modesty , as befitted an English gentleman . |
| 26 | Every mental phenomenon includes something as object within itself , although they do not all do so in the same way . |
| 27 | Many parishes and villages have continued to lose population and will probably do so in the foreseeable future . |
| 28 | If it does not do so within the one month time limit , compatibility is presumed . |
| 29 | So a female who can persuade two males that they each have a stake in the brood will do better in the evolutionary struggle . |
| 30 | fixations might do better in the long run by holding out until you 've got enough cash to buy the real thing . |