Example sentences of "[pron] do in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her to forget this doctor nonsense and talk more reasonably about the oilman and his petrodollars and what he had her do In the dying moments she made a noise I 'd never heard her make before , a rhythmical whimpering of abandonment or entreaty , a lost sound . |
| 2 | It 's called time , it gives you a little space at the top so you can fill in what you feel to be your role , and if you can fill below , all the tasks in respective order that you do in a typical day . |
| 3 | Of course you would n't put up with such nonsense , but you do in an outdoor shop . |
| 4 | He then drifted gloomily away , noting that this could not be ‘ an open-ended matter that you do in an idealistic whim ’ . |
| 5 | ’ You have very similar motives in someone as charismatic as David as you do in the mute lad I played in Trapped In Silence . |
| 6 | We try as far as possible to relate the work we do in the Technical Department to what goes on in industry and commerce . |
| 7 | Erm , but I 'll give you my home number to see what else we do in the other things , phone my office , please . |
| 8 | Everything we do in the Christian life is easier than prayer . ’ |
| 9 | Where things sometimes go wrong , as they do in every large organisation , the new adjudicator will be there to review complaints and offer an impartial view . ’ |
| 10 | Nevertheless , it is accepted that , appearing as they do in a penal statute , they fall to be construed narrowly rather than widely . |
| 11 | And again you would expect socialization and environmental factors to operate , and clearly they do in a trivial sense . |
| 12 | Freud 's view here is Comtean ; he thinks in terms of three stages for the progress of civilization , beginning with the animistic phase , to which modern obsessional or paranoid neurotics regress , going through an intermediate phase of religion , which is different from the first because people give the powers and omnipotence to gods , and not to themselves as they do in the magical phase of animism . |
| 13 | But do people behave in laboratory situations as they do in the real world ? |
| 14 | The players who have strolled through our consciousness these past 10 years are mostly with us yet , but whatever they do in the Nineties will not resound in the way that their achievements of the Eighties did . |
| 15 | Both these rather delicately proportioned plants have more difficulty competing with other vigorous vegetation on the open river bank than they do in the neat crevices which man has provided for them . |
| 16 | However , when they were discussing the historical development which led to capitalism , as they do in The German Ideology and Formen , they stress , by contrast , the continuity in structure between different stages and the universality of the historical process . |
| 17 | According to the first theory , which is the one the Greeks themselves prefer , they behave as they do in the public side of life because of what history has done to them . |
| 18 | The rest of Europe will now construct the social institutions of Europe with Britain excluded — but we shall not be excluded from being influenced by what they do in the short term . |
| 19 | The trick is to do it little and often — notice what they do in the fast food chains , ’ Davies says . |
| 20 | In addition there is a mass of evidence that a very high proportion of people in their sixties and seventies are physically capable of remaining longer than they do in the formal labour market . |
| 21 | The other terms , for example , are all the same in each market , so on averaging they occur in the same form as they do in an individual market . |
| 22 | In the case of the letter and the drawer , the signs fail in their indexical function because , appearing as they do in an isolated expression , they simply direct us into a void . |