Example sentences of "[adv] do the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the ferret has fallen down a vertical hole within the burrow the line ferret , on approaching , may not necessarily do the same thing . |
| 2 | I 've only done the patterned bit . ’ |
| 3 | But Des points out that everybody else on this road is running anyway , and if we want to stay unnoticed we 'd better do the same . |
| 4 | Oh you 'd better do the last one Doctor |
| 5 | Should we all do the same questions ? |
| 6 | I think you should all do the same questionnaire and the same survey but then if you can write it up separately . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | TIF , and many other types of file , all to do the same job ? |
| 11 | Imperialism focused on one or two natural resources , thus creating a homogeneous agricultural proletariat , all doing the same labouring job . |
| 12 | What I find horrible is that there are so many organisations or or places all over Great Britain , they 're all doing the same sort of tests ! |
| 13 | All doing the same thing with all with the same earning potential . |
| 14 | Twenty other , kiddies all doing the same . |
| 15 | Look , we 're all doing the same thing at different |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And so , you know , on the business desk you might have three teams and the first team is only doing the first page and the opinion and the second team is doing a large amount of financial news and the third team is doing the company news , and then the erm there 's a graphics person who 's working on charts and stuff . |
| 18 | I 'm only doing the other stuff to be with you . |
| 19 | ‘ I was a swine to my parents for years , until I realised they were only doing the best and — the shock of it ! — that they were human too ! ’ |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | Good old Britain : not only doing the wrong thing but unable to keep it secret . |
| 22 | But in so doing the Prime Minister overlooked two crucial aspects of what was decided at that summit . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | The pharmaceutical industry unwisely did the same and instituted an expensive advertising campaign . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Not only did the one-second pulses appear to be closer to each other , but the humps and dips of each of those pulses — they too were closer to each other . |
| 28 | Not only did the other men not speak ; they did not move . |
| 29 | Not only did the First World War produce a major crisis of authority for the old order , but it also resulted in the harnessing by the State , on an unprecedented scale , of the power and resources of the nation towards the war effort . |
| 30 | 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 . |