Example sentences of "do [adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Had she done so she would not have said a word , would not have looked a word , would simply have sat on the bed and talked to Tina for ten minutes instead of the two of them sitting opposite each other in armchairs .
2 That he intended her to be the sensation of town Dinah did not yet realise , but if she had done so it would not have disturbed her .
3 Had he not done so I could not have gone to Eton , and should have been deprived of one of the most formative influences in my life .
4 Well they ca n't do any they ca n't do anything for me I 'm an I 'm an awkward sod !
5 Well that 's side A and get a couple done today it wo n't look so bad .
6 I say I do n't know where she 's gon na get cake done yet you ca n't ice a i ice a cake if you have n't got one .
7 If they appeared likely to do so he would then map out a strategy and advise students or co-workers on how to refine them and carry them through to fulfilment .
8 The immigration appeal tribunal said the onus was on an applicant to bring himself within the specific immigration rule , and if he was unable or unwilling to do so he could not expect to succeed .
9 An egoist who tries to ground his ethic in ‘ Be aware ’ would have to break down the analogy between personal and other viewpoints ; and to do so he could not appeal to the most obvious difference , that while ‘ here ’ and ‘ there ’ are exchanged by the agent 's movements , and ‘ now ’ is continuously changing into ‘ then ’ , he remains to himself unalterably ‘ I ’ .
10 But in doing so they must not restrict the opportunities for one gender or racial group .
11 You should read as much as you can of European and American drama , both historical and contemporary , for by doing so you will certainly set yourself up well for both drama school training and your subsequent acting career .
12 So you know our audience are are getting bigger from what we 're doing so it would n't make any sense
13 If a firm 's not doing well they ca n't pay ya , can it ?
14 And he said well my father is doing today I ca n't do today I 'll do it Friday and I shouted down the stairs but he owes you a day you should n't be going in .
15 But if you use the function who is responsible for doing then you can often find out who .
16 Mr Barnet — it was clearly he — continued to look at her , and while he did so she could not look away .
17 We move on now to aspects of teaching of more particular concern to the language teacher , but as we do so we should not lose sight of the more general educational context .
18 You can make pleas for extra schemes but if you do so I could only suggest that you also accompany it with one that you would rather er is not done , so there are actually replacements rather than additions .
19 Culture thus transcends the lives of its living exponents in any one generation : if it did not it could not survive .
20 It was in Mr Dunn 's interests to return the summons with his answers , because if he did not he would never know of judgement made against him in court declaring he owed Mr Rich the sum he claimed .
21 Oh yes , there were n't no argument about that , if they did n't they wo n't do the bloody work .
22 Erm I do n't think I did no , oh no they did n't they would n't think of doing that then , but they do now and erm then I , I 've been around at Wiggens the old hall table where people you know , worked in the warehouse there and I 've done all sorts
23 He never writes a memo saying you know we are supporting or attacking this government as about this election campaign , never , but journalists know what his view is and they write in a code with that view and if they did n't they would quickly find out where they should be and it would not be working for one of those newspapers and the thing that 's quite perverse about it is the .
24 If you did n't you would n't accept his arrangement .
25 You did n't you could n't come out any other way , just the one way in and that was the finish of it .
26 ‘ She has a heart of gold , ’ Mrs Porter said decisively , then added , ‘ Which is a good thing , actually , because if she did n't I would n't stay !
27 If people stopped to look at the borders alongside the house he would be perfectly charming ; if they did n't he would n't bother them .
28 And the sailor said , ’ Have it your own way but if we do n't we 'll never have kids . ’
29 Right we do n't we can probably do these these bits in your head quite easily .
30 If you do n't they 'll certainly have you all for supper . ’
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