Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE MESSAGE from the Scottish Office is that farmers are not so hard hit , hard up or hard done by as they frequently claim . |
| 2 | Jeffrey had apparently either been rescued or cruelly done to death . |
| 3 | It was her smile that always did for him . |
| 4 | Was it perhaps because the work did indeed look like typewriting ( by this time neither a highly paid nor a highly regarded occupation and mostly done by women ) and therefore an effeminate calling and beneath a man 's dignity ? |
| 5 | The presentation was smoothly and effectively done by the experienced PR company which Garth Enterprises employed . |
| 6 | The helper departs feeling ‘ put down ’ and badly done by . |
| 7 | Thus the child learns to heed the warning and so do without the time out . |
| 8 | cos trolley buses , in this town were really the erm well I suppose they really came about , rather than motor buses right at the start because built trolley buses and so did of Laiston . |
| 9 | But the earlier propaganda image of a ‘ human ’ and even ‘ family ’ Hitler , coming from the people , sharing its worries and cares , and understanding ‘ the little man ’ seemed to have less and less to do with reality . |
| 10 | In the year of revolutionary upheaval It had seen some of its predictions fulfilled , and a movement created which , as it developed , had less and less to do with the first publication out of the underground . |
| 11 | Their conversation had been unusually impersonal , in fact , and largely to do with work . |
| 12 | Er but I 've had it just grilled , you know and always done in butter . |
| 13 | Convention dictated , however ( and still does to some extent ) , that dangerous physical action is the part of heroes , not of heroines . |
| 14 | Listening to children reading has dominated the early stages of reading instruction for several decades , and still does to a great extent . |
| 15 | I had always considered him , and still did in the absence of any other evidence , to be a sincere person , one who would do anything to fulfil his promises . |
| 16 | This has little to do with a conditioned eye , influenced by architectural orders , and more to do with a basic and instinctive feeling that lifts the spirit and brings about a sense of harmony between the scale of the house and the human frame . |
| 17 | Privatization of this sort has less to do with increased public choice by individual consumers and more to do with the cheaper provision of a standard service . |
| 18 | We hear that progress has been rather slow of late but feel this has less to do with the quality of Swan Vesta the boys are using and more to do with their strange diets . |
| 19 | He is Turkish as well , but the common nationality of his workforce has little to do with solidarity and more to do with limiting the risk of being caught . |
| 20 | While the nation mourns ( not ) over the sudden cancellation of the SHAKESPEAR 'S SISTER mega-tour , it would seem that the reason behind the decision had little to do with SIOBHAN 's nervous exhaustion and more to do with the fact that hubbie DAVE STEWART wants to spend more time with his wife and less time on his Jack Jones , staring at his fibre-optic carpet . |
| 21 | Rosenhan concludes that the diagnosis of mental illness has less to do with the symptoms that are exhibited by patients , and more to do with the way that behaviour is interpreted by doctors who ‘ know ’ that someone is mentally ill . |
| 22 | Foreign policy becomes less to do with ensuring the survival of the state , and more to do with managing an environment composed of newly politicized areas and a variety of actors . |
| 23 | This may have had nothing to do with my arrival and more to do with some riots on the occasion of the funeral of the assassinated opposition leader but clearly they were taking no chances . |
| 24 | On the basis of these figures , the issue of juvenile crime seems less to do with welfare dependency , and more to do with after-school child care . |
| 25 | I 'm saying to Glasgow city council that I think the reason for the poor health of its people is due to factors outwith health services and more to do with social and economic factors such as unemployment and bad housing . ’ |
| 26 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 27 | People can — and often do for large sums of money — agree to be defamed . |
| 28 | Many thanks to Trantec , and well done to Dave . |
| 29 | Now that one , you 're doing , sort of doing this bit , erm , you can do that bit on the calculator and then do times six hundred . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's no other person who would first fall in love with a house and then do up the house inspired by its period details , putting everything in its proper place according to the house 's architecture , history and setting . |