Example sentences of "do [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel more allegiance , if you like , with er , a male working class person than I do perhaps with a female member of the class , Margaret Thatcher would be a very good example of that . |
| 2 | You do so at an unfamiliar garage and then discover that the one you had planned to stop at was closed . |
| 3 | Those of the nightshade , tomato and several other plants , however , do so through a small opening at the tip , through which the pollen falls a few grains at a time . |
| 4 | I do so as a grateful tribute to someone who has liberated the study of non-verbal communication from the dead hand of ethological reductionism . |
| 5 | ‘ We have suffered some serious setbacks through injuries , but when you tour you do so with a full squad and they must all be up to the mark . ’ |
| 6 | Indeed , why should I deny it ? for all its sad associations , whenever I recall that evening today , I find I do so with a large sense of triumph . |
| 7 | Coventry four-piece the Ludicrous Lollipops compete in the same arena as End 's Atomic Dustbin but do so with a large amount of panache and with fingers firmly placed on a bouncing , glistening pop pulse . |
| 8 | Coventry four-piece the Ludicrous Lollipops compete in the same arena as End 's Atomic Dustbin but do so with a large amount of panache and with fingers firmly placed on a bouncing , glistening pop pulse . |
| 9 | What is clear , though , is that we can not really go back to ‘ 1970s feminism ’ , and that inasmuch as we do work with the social and political categories which are the valuable heritage of that period we now do so with a proper awareness of their construction and provisionality . |
| 10 | The Scheme will ensure that all solicitors ' representatives who give police station advice do so to an agreed standard of competence . |
| 11 | Companies do so on a voluntary basis . |
| 12 | Of the six planning departments , three are regularly asked to provide competitive financial information to the rest of the company ; two others do so on an irregular basis . |
| 13 | Time and space " in nature " are continuous ; we make them discontinuous for our human social purposes , and we do so in a great variety of different ways . |
| 14 | However , they do so in a distinctive way . |
| 15 | I would add that camp is oft en also a turning of the second set of categories — theatricality , irony , and a sense of the absurdity of extreme feeling — onto the first , such that the latter — authenticity , intensity , the fierce assertion of extreme feeling — if they remain at all , do so in a transformed state . |
| 16 | Of course , the vast majority of those who make use of tax havens do so in an open way with which the authorities have no problem . |
| 17 | All species of Alternanthera are marsh-lovers , and therefore do better in an emersed condition , but as their foliage is very attractive , growing them in the aquarium is justified . |