Example sentences of "[vb infin] do the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will need to do the same if they are interpreting music . |
| 2 | To give a counter-example : in a long line consisting of two-note groups , you may need to do the opposite and emphasise each second note . |
| 3 | And should n't you , you 've done the spare kitchen scissors good ! |
| 4 | In ten years ' time you can choose to do the following : |
| 5 | And you in turn can choose to do the same . |
| 6 | And do n't think I 'll hesitate to do the same . ’ |
| 7 | The advice from women who 've sought help is that others should n't hesitate to do the same . |
| 8 | I 'd like to do the real thing . ’ |
| 9 | Erm , right , who 'd like to do the last one , Tracey . |
| 10 | MEANWHILE , if you 're not actually strangling a turkey at the moment then you might like to do the next worse thing and plunge into the unsavoury giblets of the 1990 calendar of the National Association of Conservative Graduates . |
| 11 | Daedalus would like to do the same thing for human senses , and DREADCO chemists are now at work on his ‘ contrast-exalting spectacles ’ or ‘ Cexspex ’ ( Regd. ) make of a cunning tinted glass . |
| 12 | " I expect Manners 'ud like to do the same . " |
| 13 | Ruth had already decided to bring her own children to be photographed today , and then approached all her friends with young families , suggesting they might like to do the same — so it had turned into a children 's party . |
| 14 | The facility for paying all your fees on one cheque proved quite popular last October so if you would like to do the same at the next Q.T. Day please remember to analyse on the back of the cheque the fees you are paying . |
| 15 | The facility for paying all your fees on one cheque proved quite popular last October so if you would like to do the same at the next Q.T. Day please remember to analyse on the back of the cheque the fees you are paying . |
| 16 | In many ways I should like to do the same , for there are wonderful stories to be told , and I love storytelling . |
| 17 | For the er we 'd really like to do the same thing for the whole weapons system with Eurofighter also but the the premium that eurofighter might demand to cover the risk . |
| 18 | I would like to do the same thing to them |
| 19 | Now would you like to do the same for yours , work out what fraction of a total yours are . |
| 20 | In an amiable parody of an interview he once heard being given by Sir Adrian Boult , Gould spelt out the attitude to recording of that older generation : roughly , ‘ I do n't mind doing the occasional recording , old boy — not everyone gets to concerts — and we 'll do our best , but I do n't want any ‘ patching ’ , we must keep the long line intact ’ . |
| 21 | I hate it when people cry , cos it makes me want to do the same thing . |
| 22 | I rushed into my last contract and do n't want to do the same again . ’ |
| 23 | As for advising someone else who might want to do the same thing as myself , I do n't know what to say . |
| 24 | If we were really lucky we 'd be able to go to conference and try and sell hundreds of them to other Green Parties who might want to do the same . |
| 25 | You do n't fancy doing the 1st div as well do you ? ? ? |
| 26 | ‘ Michael will no doubt say he had to discount them out to achieve the occupancy in the shoulder period , but I do n't know how he can explain doing the same in high season . ’ |
| 27 | It can not have done the YF-23 any good that it was unable to kick the AMRAAMs out of its weapons bay on demand . |
| 28 | Erm so federalism is a fairly important principle in American government and that principle , essentially , is , and most of you I hope will have done the first year course politics and policy making where I talked about federalism in general terms that federalism is based upon the notions that in the same territory you can have more than one government and that those governments er are of equal status . |
| 29 | And in settling what these questions shall be , statesmen have now especially a great responsibility if they raise questions which will excite the lower orders of mankind ; if they raise questions on which the interest of those orders is not identical with , or is antagonistic to , the whole interest of the State , they will have done the greatest harm they can do . |
| 30 | In both cases , the thing had seemed a sheer impossibility ; he had not thought but known that , being what he was , he was psychologically incapable of doing it ; and then , without any apparent movement of the will , as objective and unemotional as the reading on a dial , there had arisen before him , with perfect certitude , the knowledge ‘ about this time tomorrow , you will have done the impossible ’ . |