Example sentences of "[adv] do [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean when you 're looking for seventy thousand pounds savings you can only do two things . |
| 2 | I can only do four feet on this one so er |
| 3 | She told me : ‘ I was really upset to read that an ‘ insider ’ , whoever that might be , had said I was so busy creating an image for myself in the music industry and trying to be a film star that I could only do four episodes of the latest series . |
| 4 | but you can only do one charity at a time |
| 5 | It had to be Travis , and that spurred her on to reckless speed , putting too much weight on her much tried ankle , until it could only do one thing — collapse under her . |
| 6 | And I I can only do this work I 'm sorry . |
| 7 | Instead of local authorities having the inherent right , or what in England is called the common law right , to conduct their affairs as they wished , it became established that local authorities could only do those things which Parliament had authorised them to do . |
| 8 | To meet this point I think one must say that Bentham 's view was , in effect , that a right action must not only do more good than harm , but must also be such that neither the particular good it does , nor any other comparable good which might have substituted for it , could have been achieved at less cost in terms of harm done . |
| 9 | In a manufacturing company , he or she may not only do public relations for the Board of Directors and the general information about the company as a whole , but may also have to satisfy a marketing department who demand the benefits of public relations for their products . |
| 10 | But I can only do few animals , but that 's all . |
| 11 | Colouring was done by hand , following pattern plates coloured by the artist , so that different copies of the same work , perhaps done several years apart in a slow-selling book , may differ considerably among themselves . |
| 12 | In my blunderings around Enniskillen , I may have inadvertently done some harm , as foreigners do in Communist lands by innocently befriending natives who are then shadowed by the secret police and later imprisoned or shot . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's only done thirteen hours , ’ he replied . |
| 14 | ‘ I have only done two films in Hollywood and part of another . |
| 15 | That was only done twenty years later , in 1279 . |
| 16 | When we toured with the Inspiral Carpets — which was good for us to do at that point — we 'd only done 20 gigs as a band , and were n't experienced in the ‘ problems ’ of a support act like monitors being mysteriously unplugged during the performance , and an ever-shrinking stage , but we still did the business ! |
| 17 | can tell his white brick work , that were only done last year was n't it ? |
| 18 | With a timetable to them we are in the best place to do it now cause we 're still learning we have only done three jobs , four now have n't we ? erm the Kathy procedure is definitely needed . |
| 19 | I 've only done three tapes , he gave me twenty . |
| 20 | Yes , erm well I I 've not done a wedding in a church actually yet , but then I 've only done three weddings , and , but the most interesting one was in a Brock in Glenelg and erm , that was quite exciting because the couple really thought about the service and they had selected that sight because it meant something to them , and involved the whole community and thereabout , and it was great ! |
| 21 | If we want to keep the best scientists and the best engineers in this country , we 'd better do two things : we 'd better attract them with good pay and we 'd better train them right and give them the proper facilities . |
| 22 | I 'd better do that door I think . |
| 23 | Well we 'd better do some work you know . |
| 24 | So you 'd better do some heroing . |
| 25 | Better do this washing up had n't I ? |
| 26 | ‘ You 'd better do another week 's supply , ’ he said . |
| 27 | So now the pressure on the broker is not only to do more business but to do it in exactly their way . ’ |
| 28 | This is also the only way for motorists who have been refused permission at Killilan to use the private road , or who did n't like to ask , and are fit enough to do eight miles there and back on foot . |
| 29 | She 's not really well enough to do any thing is she ? |
| 30 | The use of the voice in conjunction with the body is an important feature of training , too , for when acting you will need to be physically free enough to do several things at once . |