Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] do so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Climbing is second nature to all small felines and it is virtually impossible for a cat to switch off its urge to climb , even if it is punished for doing so . |
| 2 | However , the guide-lines normally only provide a starting-point , which the sentencer is free to depart from if this is regarded as appropriate , and provided reasons are given for doing so . |
| 3 | The only exception is the US PGA Championship , whose committee invited the top 50 from the Sony Rankings and must be applauded for doing so . |
| 4 | But it looks like doing so only when the fishermen have emptied the seas . |
| 5 | Acting on the unanimous recommendation of the party 's presidium and the executive committee of the parliamentary group , a plenary meeting of the SPD parliamentary group on Aug. 19 voted by 60 to five to leave the coalition , although the chairman of the group , Richard Schröder , spoke and voted against doing so . |
| 6 | What we have succeeded in doing so far is to set the scene for the quantum mechanical play . |
| 7 | And amazingly , against all the odds , she had succeeded in doing so . |
| 8 | Officers who wanted to stay on were discouraged from doing so . |
| 9 | If their origins were in an academic discipline , they are often no longer able to identify themselves with it — or are discouraged from doing so by their more specialised fellows . |
| 10 | However , as Norton and Aughey ( 1981 ) comment of Conservative Party members in general , whether young or not so young , ‘ generally party activists tend not to devote their energies to political discussion , not because they are discouraged from doing so , but because they themselves prefer to do other things ’ ( pp. 219–20 ) . |
| 11 | The mass circulation Daily Mail , encouraged by its owner Lord Rothermere , gave support to fascism and the BUF until discouraged from doing so by a marked drop in readership . |
| 12 | Even within a GP practice , it is likely that doctors will wish to use different hospitals and consultants , but may now be constrained from doing so . |
| 13 | None of this meant that American companies were no longer interested in financing British filmmakers or even British ideas , but they were no longer committed to doing so , and did n't expect to be sufficiently involved to justify keeping offices in London . |
| 14 | Whether that was true is hard to say ; but the principle must surely be right that when people could profit by doing so , they accepted the benefits of government . |
| 15 | The court may terminate a guardian 's appointment at any time but must give its reasons in writing for doing so . |
| 16 | For instance , someone who expresses her opinion of a friend 's appearance very vaguely may be suspected of doing so in order to be polite ( saving others ' face is a common motive for vagueness , untruthfulness and withholding information ) . |
| 17 | It was one thing behaving in his limp way whenever he himself felt like doing so . |
| 18 | He almost spoke her name , but quickly decided against doing so , realizing that she was not entirely conscious . |
| 19 | We could therefore make a rule that ‘ melodies should begin with two sentences , each comprising two phrases etc. ’ , but we must refrain from doing so . |
| 20 | Aszal says that he tried to call a doctor or an ambulance from the public telephone but was prevented from doing so by the guards . |
| 21 | To his credit , he wanted to give the markets a new nominal rule , on the exchange rate , but was prevented from doing so by Mrs Margaret Thatcher 's visceral dislike of the European Monetary System . |
| 22 | It is therefore possible to have a battery without an assault ( e.g. where D strikes V from behind ) , as well as an assault without a battery ( e.g. where D threatens to strike V but is prevented from doing so ) , but most cases involve both . |
| 23 | Mr Crosby wanted to take them back on the pitch but was prevented from doing so by police , who had acted quickly to prevent a pitch invasion when Byrne headed Sunderland into a 35th-minute lead . |
| 24 | Year after year the crisis never climaxed , perhaps prevented from doing so by the Committee 's success in improving the course and keeping the existing members together . |
| 25 | She passed about forty-eight kilometres north of Krakatoa on the evening of the twenty-sixth , spent the night of the twenty-sixth to seventh anchored in Telok Betong , tried to sail again for Anjer in the morning , but was prevented from doing so by the violence of the eruption . |
| 26 | The protestors had intended to enter Épernay , but were prevented from doing so by a squadron of cavalry which had barricaded the road . |
| 27 | British civil servants would like to reverse this policy , but are prevented from doing so by the EC . |
| 28 | Unfortunately people who could benefit from some counselling are often prevented from doing so by their own injunctions . |
| 29 | His Royal Highness was to have led his team in the match against Libor Krejci 's Levitt team , but sadly , he was prevented from doing so , by breaking his arm badly in two places while playing polo the previous week . |
| 30 | Young booksellers who would like to attend the conference but have been prevented from doing so by shortage of funds should contact the ICYB vice-president Debby Sutherland at Waterstones , Bath ( ) . |