Example sentences of "[adv] do [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Remember , they can only do it once . |
2 | Oh yes well you can perhaps do it tomorrow |
3 | Well you could perhaps do it together but be careful . |
4 | Only done her once ? |
5 | Really I think I 've only done it twice this term . |
6 | ‘ Promises ’ song was music first ( that 's hard and I 've only done it once since ) and ‘ Sincerely Yours ’ was Rab Handleigh 's ‘ tribute ’ to Barry Manilow which he performed with perfect schmaltz suavity . |
7 | I 've only done it once with crisps I had some were soggy and sour and horrible |
8 | Well , he 's only done it once and that was when it was in a coat pocket and he pulled it out and it sort of must |
9 | This could be the girl whom the Yard were looking for , and he had better do everything very quickly indeed , including finding his Chief , who would then want to find his Chief Constable and notify Scotland Yard . |
10 | Better do it otherwise you 'll forget , gon na eat that little bit of cake or I 'll throw it away ? |
11 | But you 'd better do it carefully . |
12 | Oh I 'll give you , I 'll give you a pound do n't worry , make sure you do the job properly , mm you 'd better do it outside , cos the er , the boot polish do n't go on the carpet . |
13 | Some time later a man came along the path and stopped to ask me if I was all right , I told him yes and to please go away , which he did but I thought he 'll go to fetch help so I 'd better do it now . |
14 | Perhaps I had better do it now . ’ |
15 | If you want to be out on that pitch when the referee blows his whistle , you 'd better do it now . ’ |
16 | ‘ Some people think I am crazy but I thought I had better do it now while I have the chance . ’ |
17 | And we had better do it quickly , because the trees and clumps are rapidly disappearing through the ravages of storms and neglect . |
18 | If they were on Snakebite , I 'd better do it quickly . |
19 | Very good I wonder if we could all do it as well as that ? |
20 | She cheered up after writing the experiment because she had obviously done it rather well . |
21 | There would seem to be a strong argument , with so many millions of us , only to do it once . |
22 | I take modelling for what it is ; I made money I 'd never otherwise have made so quickly , and I 'm still young enough to do something else . |
23 | It would n't take long to do it now but I ca n't be bothered |
24 | Apparently doing anything else . |
25 | Mr 's only doing it today so I ai n't got ta go in tomorrow . |
26 | ( I had better say now that readers who identify the I of the Sonnets with Shakespeare 's own personality not only encourage that futility of speculation about the identity of a real-life ‘ Friend ’ and ‘ Dark Lady ’ which has pestered discussions of these poems for so long , and is now in the last stages of senility ; but in so doing they also destroy one of the essential principles of literary criticism in modern times , the independence of the I in lyric poetry , its existence as a persona or mask behind which the poet is free to impersonate any human situation without being identified with each or all of the mutations — often contradictory — taken on by his persona . ) |
27 | In so doing it also crossed what the Swiss recognise as an ancient cultural frontier which in this part of the country runs not as a straight line but in a curve in clockwise direction , through the Brunig Pass , the centre of the highland massif known as the Napf , and the river Reuss which flows out from the Vierwaldstattersee at Luzern . |
28 | In so doing he also gave his blessing to — what in effect proved to be the case — declaring the Transkei , or at least Bumbane , the first ANC liberated zone , however fleetingly , yesterday afternoon . |
29 | In so doing he also rediscovers Pip , whom he lures to a disused lime-kiln with the intention of killing him , but in the nick of time is frustrated by Herbert , Startop , and Trabb 's boy . |
30 | In so doing he often exposes the different colour of the priming ground underneath . |