Example sentences of "[v-ing] do [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you 'd have an awful lot of explaining to do ever after . ’ |
| 2 | If this was one of the family , she might have some explaining to do quite soon , but they could n't eat her , for heaven 's sake . |
| 3 | ‘ You mean what am I going to do with these guys , or what am I going to do right now ? ’ |
| 4 | So what else are we going to do today then . |
| 5 | I mean my belief is that if Standard Life and M and G ca n't show me a profit on a , a good managed fund , I doubt that anybody in a another institute is going to do any better . |
| 6 | Another amusing incident to come out of ‘ Space Oddity ’ was when I got a phone call from David one day , who said he had to record an Italian version of the song because two kids in Italy had apparently done a cover version of it and as it looked as if it was going to do quite well , the Italian record company wanted a version by the original artist and said they would send someone along to teach Bowie phonetically how to sing the song . |
| 7 | If it came to violence , he was n't going to do too well . |
| 8 | He 's probably also going to do very well when he gets there . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think any company that is simply amused by its competition is going to do very well . |
| 10 | As the afternoon progressed it was apparent that any amateur who could play to his handicap in these conditions was going to do very well . |
| 11 | So I do n't think I 'm going to do very well . |
| 12 | ‘ I vomited twice , ’ he remarked , ‘ and I think I am going to do so again . ’ |
| 13 | What are we going to do now then ? |
| 14 | Take away the eight thousand existing P H I cover , absolutely crackamondo , leaves us with the nice round sum of ten thousand pounds , and what I am going to do now then folks ? |
| 15 | I decided what I was going to do almost immediately . |
| 16 | The budgets which have just been prepared show that we are aiming to do even better in 1991 and the managing director 's reports on page 2 endorse this optimistic approach . |
| 17 | However , most people aiming to shed surplus weight are also aiming to do so reasonably swiftly . |
| 18 | And , generally speaking do twice as much work , put in twice as much effort and just to prove they 're as good ! |
| 19 | Not having done very well at school ( not even allowed to sit the Oxbridge exams ) , she had nevertheless been diligent about her piano lessons , and was in fact quite good on the instrument . |
| 20 | She would probably feel a lot better for having done so too . |
| 21 | And having done so beautifully in the buildup how did he get it so wrong with the shot ? |
| 22 | Yet 24 hours later this same Ian Woosnam , who a year ago followed in the footsteps of Sandy Lyle and Nick Faldo by winning the Masters at Augusta National , was threatening to do so again , until the thunder and lightning affected his revival early in the third round . |
| 23 | ‘ We 're picking clients up left , right and centre from all sorts of people who 've been charging pretty fancy fees and really failing to do any better than we do , ’ says Michael Read , head of the private client department . |
| 24 | But today , considerable strides are being made in the teaching and care of even the severely mentally handicapped , so that they are learning to do far more for themselves . |
| 25 | But what we 're trying to do today here Richard is three er er three things . |
| 26 | I hope Prince Yuan has your arse for what you 're trying to do here today . ’ |
| 27 | Leon Panetta , director of the Office of Management and Budget , warned Mr Clinton about trying to do too much too quickly . |
| 28 | However it must be worth trying to do so especially if a senior employee has received independent legal advice before entering the agreement and has been specifically compensated ( as is common in the USA ) for accepting the restraint . |
| 29 | But no system can wholly protect fools from their own folly or from the knavery of others , and the advantages of trying to do so as fully as possible have to be weighed against the disadvantages of imposing fetters on business conducted honestly and efficiently . |
| 30 | As I said , you do n't strike me as the sort of girl who hides her body from the public gaze , so I do n't know why you 're bothering to do so now . ’ |