Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must say you 've taken long enough to do so . ’ |
| 2 | So much done so quickly and then nothing . |
| 3 | and how much not to do really . |
| 4 | If your interest in the past centres on some figure in particular from days gone by you could perhaps not do better than to consider whether he or she would make a detective , as the American writer Lilian de la Torre did with a series of short stories about Dr Sam Johnson , Detector . |
| 5 | Damn this man and his ability to force her into probing her own psyche more deeply than she 'd perhaps ever done before . |
| 6 | Looking for sherds that will join together is a very time-consuming process , and is only usually done thoroughly if it is suspected that such joins exist and will add significantly to the evidence . |
| 7 | Kings sometimes instructed or allowed churchmen to draft and write these documents , and Cnut apparently often did so . |
| 8 | The advent of Andy Reed belatedly persuaded the selectors to move Doddie Weir to No8 where , between the great-hearted , combative Turnbull and an Iain Morrison now reproducing his best London Scottish form , he has so far done splendidly as an embryonic Mervyn Davies or Murray Mexted . |
| 9 | And Stefan , try to write up the Luxembourg so that the emphasis is on that and it detracts from the fact that we 're resurrecting those three tired old numbers we 've so often done before . |
| 10 | He could n't bear to wake up screaming on the plane as he so often did alone at night at Robinsgrove . |
| 11 | B : [ pragmatically interpreted particle ] the milkman came at some time prior to the time of speaking Yet it is clear to native speakers that what would ordinarily be communicated by such an exchange involves considerably more , along the lines of the italicized material in ( 3 ) : ( 3 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time of the present moment , as standardly indicated on a watch , and if so please do so tell me B : No I do n't know the exact time of the present moment , but I can provide some information from which you may be able to deduce the approximate time , namely the milkman has come ( see R. Lakoff , 1973a ; Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 172ff for a discussion of such examples ) . |
| 12 | The continuance of our training programme depends on attracting new students so please do all you can to publicise the Potential Teachers ' Day to be held on Saturday 8th March 1986 at Warwick Park School , Peckham High Street , London SE 15 . |
| 13 | Reading the judge 's summing up , they were obviously about to do so . |
| 14 | Not only then do about a quarter of respondents cite pavement parking as one of the problems for pedestrians in that they object to the loss of pavement space to the vehicle and the obstruction caused by it , but they are then subjected to considerable accident rates as a result of the broken slabs and uneven surfaces that result ( Figure 8.3 ) . |
| 15 | So how do all those animals live in the apparent absence of plants ? |
| 16 | " So how do all you French sex maniacs manage to preserve your sanity then ? " |
| 17 | So where does all that leave me ? |
| 18 | You never boggle at plain-speaking , so why do so now ? |
| 19 | The legislator has little incentive to improve the quality of information used to check on the claims made by bureaucrats about social needs , administrative costs , procurement levels and activity rates , especially when to do so is costly to the politicians . |
| 20 | Second , four B , erm the proform substitution where a proform is like a pronoun or a proverb or if you fancy a pro-sentence erm sentence five Florence teased Dougal , and Brian did so too did so means teased Dougal the sentence for that is a proform . |
| 21 | One can waive one 's rights by consenting , but not by promising ( except in the special case in which the very undertaking of an obligation to act in a certain way terminates one 's right not to do so ) . |
| 22 | I 've had a good long life — well , a long life , eh , Father Kenneth ? — and I 'm not right done yet . |
| 23 | Schools in the sample were asked to provide pupils with scissors for this test , but it was clear that not all did so for in some classes no one used scissors . |
| 24 | In the last decade or so of his reign , approximately 100 mints functioned ( even if not all did so continuously ) : for the volume of the coinage they produced , only a " ball-park estimate " can be given — perhaps tens of millions of coins — but the quality of the coins has recently been very precisely determined : whereas before 864 many coins were debased by up to 50 per cent , after 864 a silver-content of well over 90 per cent was secured across the board . |
| 25 | Bulimia does not mean " to force vomit " , Some compulsive overeaters ( all of whom could be termed sufferers from bulimia ) use enforced vomiting further to control their emotional feelings and also to protect themselves against the consequence of obesity — but not all do so . |
| 26 | S so the position as of say the summer nineteen forty seven when , when you 're , you , this law was being formulated the reports coming back are that although there is the opportunity for the poor to do better , as a , as a matter of course they 're not all doing better . |
| 27 | Is , is , is , yes , is there another element to this though , that what in , in your new more difficult military situation you need to mobilize the mass of support behind you , which er essentially means mobilizing the poor peasants is it possible that within the May the fourth directive , although the poor could have done much better , they need not necessarily do very much better . |
| 28 | Some suggested that a Conservative government would not necessarily do better . |
| 29 | People in late twentieth-century Britain do not necessarily do less for their relatives than they have done for the past two centuries , nor do they necessarily have a weaker sense of obligation , but they do have to work out the nature of their relationships and the patterns of support associated with them , in circumstances which are very different from the past . |
| 30 | It will not necessarily do so in a judicial manner ; a matter with party political implications may well result in voting following party lines . |