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

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1 ‘ It would have to be a very small stone , but I would do so gladly if it binds you to me . ’
2 Not only do we not usually think of Snell 's law when we try to net a fish or tickle a trout , but we could not use it to help us do so even if we did .
3 The patient may have to move about in a relatively confined area , so you have to make sure he can do so safely before he begins .
4 The treaty provides for the possibility that member states will wish to adopt a single currency later this decade , but they can do so only if they meet strict convergence conditions — conditions for which the British Government have pressed from the outset .
5 It will do so only if it frustrates the contract ( i.e. renders it impossible to carry it out — see Chapter 4 ) .
6 The caff now seems to have more customers than the railway , and would do better still if they cleared the tables .
7 Note that your essay in this case is not centrally concerned with Coleridge ; in fact you will almost certainly do less well if you write about Coleridge than if you discuss a different author .
8 She 's just come out of Saint Mary 's did n't do as well as she thought , or everybody else hoped she would do in her A levels , so is now retaking one .
9 " I am not sure I could do as well as you say in politics .
10 Those countries which were protesting about the repatriation would do far better if they offered to take some of the boat people themselves .
11 I knew I could do well academically and I did it as a challenge to the conventional idea of the black kid who 's good at sports , yet with no brains .
12 This question allows for the possibility of an actual mistake , big or small , as well as acknowledging that you can always do even better than you did .
13 Would do then Well if we go
14 If he takes his clothes off , which he does not do very easily because it hurts so much , one sees open wounds from the top of his chest down to his toes .
15 I mean I 'm gon na try and give , the first two guys and er Mike who came in , they did n't do very well cos they did n't actually mention that bit and it did n't flow from then on , you 've got ta make the point , you know , did you find that er well not did you , that 's bad phraseology , I 'm sure you found this beneficial which of the areas of the five tonight actually interest you the most do that bit and then go in with the fact that you actually mentioned earlier on that you do work on a recommendation basis .
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