Example sentences of "to do [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mere fact that it was convenient to do so through a story of a murder and the murderer 's subsequent feelings and actions had nothing essential to contribute . |
| 2 | There were times when he felt cut off by some imponderable barrier ; the usual sights and sounds reached him but they seemed to do so through a screen of interference , like a badly tuned radio . |
| 3 | But for such vituperation and the violence it provoked the law could not punish him , though it tried to do so on a number of occasions . |
| 4 | Many were reportedly angered by the Amir 's decision to restore the National Council despite their request not to do so at a meeting on May 28 between opposition leaders and government ministers . |
| 5 | Would she encourage an increase in the twenty per cent who actually employ specialists for particular subjects er to do so as a priority in religious education where the teacher has no such sympathy . |
| 6 | What the doctor is saying is that he had to continue treatment , because it was right to do so as a matter of public policy . |
| 7 | Theology , like other studies in the broad field of the ‘ humanities ’ or the ‘ liberal arts ’ , has been compelled to face the implications of that challenge , and has sought to do so in a variety of ways . |
| 8 | A wide variety of things could be construed as ‘ approaching ’ violence but to use that expression while condemning the violence of the previous day and to do so in a critique of Paisley while failing to mention the Cromac Square rioters is to exaggerate . |
| 9 | ( i ) When directed to do so by a court on the discharge of an education supervision order ( Sched 3 , para 17(2) ) . |
| 10 | A local authority must also investigate when directed to do so by a court in the course of family proceedings ( s37(1) ) . |
| 11 | At first you may have to prize open the jaws gently , but soon the puppy should learn to release the item without hesitation , if encouraged to do so by a display of affection afterwards . |