Example sentences of "[adv] do the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've only done the patterned bit . ’ |
| 2 | Rachel could see the reasoning behind that , but nevertheless felt angry towards Damian Flint — not because he had so obviously done the right thing , but because he was so clearly in complete control of a situation that had always been beyond Rachel . |
| 3 | I turned out the f the negative upside down to do the other half , which makes 'em look Keeps the the group equally s h |
| 4 | I have looked after my husband for seven years , he had a brain tumour operation nearly eight years ago , and he 's in a wheelchair he ca n't walk , but his , after the first two years of caring for him , he 's become bright enough to do the Daily Telegraph crossword , and so he 's er erm brain 's alright . |
| 5 | Many homeowners with DIY skills get the professionals in to do the tricky bits and supply the labour , or save money by managing the project themselves . |
| 6 | BRINGING CUNNING PEOPLE IN TO DO THE DIRTY WORK |
| 7 | Once a month , a gardener comes in to do the heavy work for me , and I hope he 'll dig the new pond . |
| 8 | Any question of taking her into Penzance had to be abandoned and Harriet went off alone to do the weekly shopping , thankful to be able to leave Edna in charge of Celia and trying not to feel guilty that she actually preferred such expeditions without her daughter 's company . |
| 9 | These little sneak fertilizers however are young and small of course , this is what they rely on their enormous of speed for , and they grow up into female mimics or transvestites , and what a transvestite does is when a regular male and a regular female are in the nest swimming around together doing the regular thing , the transvestite swims in , appearing as a second female . |
| 10 | I 'm only doing the other stuff to be with you . |
| 11 | There is a real danger in only doing the classical things — you 're OK with it for a time , but then you 're left high and dry when fashion moves on . ’ |
| 12 | Good old Britain : not only doing the wrong thing but unable to keep it secret . |
| 13 | But in so doing the Prime Minister overlooked two crucial aspects of what was decided at that summit . |
| 14 | The same thing , if somebody 's annoying you like that , ignore them like I said , I do n't mean I wo n't just let them sit there I 'll touch my brakes a couple of times perhaps do the old bit with the mirror and like I said , normally if they 're if they 're responsible drivers that have just happened , they got a bit close then maybe they 'll drop back as I 've done |
| 15 | The main point here is that not only did the Labour leaders reject the left 's version of the social contract with its new emphasis on a radical industrial policy , but also they increasingly came to question even the Crosland/Fabian/ ‘ Keynesian ’ version of socialism , so that their politics in the latter half of the 1970s became more and more of a mere holding operation — mere ‘ government ’ lacking any social purpose with a broad popular appeal . |
| 16 | Not only did the rival theorists of the pre-science period disagree over fundamental theoretical assumptions but also over the kinds of observational phenomena that were relevant to their theories . |
| 17 | Not only did the other men not speak ; they did not move . |
| 18 | For , not only did the explicit recognition of forward movement in time and the rejection of the idea of endless recurrence originate with Zoroastrianism , but in the last twenty years or so Old Testament scholars have drawn attention to the similarity between some passages in the Old Testament and certain Mesopotamian texts . |
| 19 | An investigation by Allan ( 1979 ) , for instance , found that not only did the middle class have more friends , but they were also drawn from a greater variety of social settings and over a wider geographical area . |
| 20 | I only did the nude modelling because my sister did it . |
| 21 | Not only did the Belgian Army remain threateningly ensconced in Antwerp , but Winston Churchill , First Lord of the Admiralty , had ordered a brigade of 3,000 British Marines to Ostend on 17 August . |
| 22 | In his case , not only did the uncovered secret last but he sold it to Life magazine for what was in 1955 the veritable king 's ransom of $25,000 . |
| 23 | I must have done , as not only did the Old Bill and the Ritas ( as in Meter Maid ) ignore me , but a real cabbie parked nearby came over to pass the time of day . |
| 24 | Not only did the British Library provide the principal funding for the seminar , but its staff also provided valuable contributions . |
| 25 | Not only did the post-war Labour Government make no decisive encroachments on the economic basis of capitalism , it also accepted without question the underlying foreign policy assumptions of the Establishment . |
| 26 | Goryushkin 's conclusion is that in the process of peasant immigration and colonization , not only did the incoming millions bring about innovations in agricultural methods , animal husbandry , cottage industry and the social customs of the Siberian peasantry , but they themselves were also deeply influenced by the traditional local practices of the old Siberians . |
| 27 | Not only did the sturdy lock crown a storming performance by bullocking over for a try in the final minute , he undoubtedly played himself into a Lions place . |
| 28 | Not only did the domestic rates disappear ( see below ) but the non-domestic rates levied on shops , offices and industry became a national tax , determined by , and collected by , central government . |
| 29 | Not only did the non-working bourgeois become increasingly frequent — in Cologne the number of rentiers paying income tax grew from 162 in 1854 to almost 600 in 1874 — but how else except by spending was the successful bourgeois , whether or not he held political power as a class , to demonstrate his conquest ? |
| 30 | Not only did the hon. Member for Neath ( Mr. Hain ) get his facts wrong , but the key point — |