Example sentences of "do [adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admittedly the referee was a foolish fellow who kept re-penalising Swansea for failing to retreat 10 yards when he did not give them the remotest chance to do so . |
| 2 | Because the first one was quite small I did not give it the full ‘ advance ’ treatment that I usually do . |
| 3 | You came here once before asking questions and perhaps I did not give you the best answers . ’ |
| 4 | Basically , the methods we used , although tried and tested by other organisations did not bring us the 4,000 members we hoped to see by the end of 1992 . |
| 5 | In looking back at my records I notice that I did not send you the enclosed form which I have now completed . |
| 6 | He did not hear her the first time , she had to repeat what she said . |
| 7 | It is a reminder that Chaucer and Langland do not give us the total picture . |
| 8 | One parent says she 's angry that the school did n't tell her the whole truth about why the head left . |
| 9 | She feels they did n't tell her the whole truth . |
| 10 | But she well she did n't , I mean she did n't tell me the intimate details or anything I do n't even know whether she has , she wo , she might have ju ge , been getting over dramatic or something ! |
| 11 | ‘ You did n't tell me the whole truth that evening at Ottavio 's , did you ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We did n't tell you the entire truth , Floy and I. ’ |
| 13 | Yes , well I did n't tell you the best part ! that was the best part ! |
| 14 | but there 's there 's something I did n't tell you the other day |
| 15 | But , when we came back , yes , there 's a sign there , but it did n't tell you the other side , you have to come |
| 16 | Thus he says of Ali , a member of Fatah , ‘ He knew I loved him , but it did n't make him the slightest bit arrogant . |
| 17 | I said to her if she did n't make it the first time , let her lend you my hammer she said do n't you talk like that and do n't you let e Geoff hear you ! |
| 18 | He used the same line with his mother ; for once he did n't give her the real reason . |
| 19 | And then , looking back at the pictures — sharp , full of insight , yet somehow slightly flashy — he wondered whether , indirectly , they did n't give him the best notion he yet had got of Walter Machin himself . |
| 20 | I was talking on Sue , I was saying if you 've got a client who did n't give you the convenient forty two pounds , but said you 'd got forty or thirty pounds to spend , the first thing you 've got to do is take off the two pounds policy fee , so you 're left in this case , with thirty eight pounds . |
| 21 | ‘ Nothing in this marvellous list ’ says Milton ‘ was as fine as Eden ’ and of course it hurts him to say it , and I do n't think it 's far fetched to detect that hurt and pain of that great sacrifice that John Milton is making in the rhythm when we read ‘ Might with this paradise of Eden strive ’ , or in the fact that he ca n't stop there , because I did n't — as you will have realized from Bentley 's comment — I did n't read you the whole passage . |
| 22 | ‘ He did n't like me the last time around . |
| 23 | He really did n't like it the first time we played it , so he tried spoiling it . |
| 24 | I did n't believe it the first time either . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ There 's always this fear she wo n't be able to cope , so you do n't give her the difficult jobs ’ . |
| 26 | How would you , if you had to do that if you do it the easy way , do n't do it the hard way , how would you do that ? |
| 27 | They do n't do it the hard way . |
| 28 | you 've used a triangular bandage to cover a wound in the scalp , it 's not a chopping block wound right , it 's not the chopper in its wound right , it 's just a minor wound in the scalp , yes , and that came round and tied at the front , tucked at the back , you used these roller bandages to cover a graze or a wound on the end of an elbow or a knee or the hand , foot and then a straight one up the arm okay , so a lot of your bandaging is using these little roller bandages with the lint pad and do n't forget when you get into the exam do it , do n't do it the wrong way round , remember that you look at your bandage and you put the lint onto the wound , not the other way round right , yeah , you put the lint face down onto the wound , okay ? |
| 29 | Yeah , if you do n't measure it the right way , and go all the way round there and say that he 's coming in on two hundred and twenty five degrees |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't tell me the great McKenna has never done so ! ’ |