Example sentences of "[adv] do [pers pn] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they 've cut them well they done it again about a month ago no one could survive They 'll only do it to get the get the key |
| 2 | He 's obviously doing it to keep a rhythm going and it certainly seems to work . |
| 3 | In so doing they extended the problem of determining the relationship between rhetoric and reality into the early barbarian period . |
| 4 | In so doing they begin the process of explaining a phenomenon , reducing it to intelligibility ; of course , that process entails a closing of options , a setting of limits to reality , since understanding is one of the ways in which we control and circumscribe our environment . |
| 5 | In so doing it rejects the classical vision of the company which defines the interests of the company as those of the shareholders , who are the only members of the company . |
| 6 | In so doing it reversed an earlier commitment , made in 1988 in the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster [ see pp. 36161 ; 34831 ] , to begin the shut-down of the country 's 12 nuclear reactors in 1995 . |
| 7 | In so doing it suggested a small but distinct improvement on that model : the party-list vote should be the first on the ballot paper , not the second as it is in West Germany , and the constituency vote should come second instead of first . |
| 8 | In so doing he emphasised the need for accountability at all levels of the system . |
| 9 | In so doing he became a symbol of the age , and his poetry became its echoing music — with its brooding grandeur as well as its bleakness , its plangency as well as its ellipses , its rhythmical strength as well as its theatrical equivocations . |
| 10 | In so doing he became the first US President since Harry S. Truman to veto a major spending bill . |
| 11 | In so doing he creates a problem that has not yet been solved . |
| 12 | In so doing he combined the religious culture of Lérins and the rhetorical culture of Late Antiquity more successfully than had Sidonius . |
| 13 | In so doing he triggered a theological storm that led to his resignation . |
| 14 | Firstly , he used a telescope to observe the heavens , and in so doing he transformed the observational data that the Copernican theory was required to explain . |
| 15 | By so doing he originated a style of dance which owed its liveliness to the way such people behaved and danced in real life . |
| 16 | By so doing he changed the very character of the conflict , for through the creation of a wider involvement in its success he tried to ensure that he , and his successors , would have broad support for the continued involvement of England and Englishmen in France . |
| 17 | In so doing she destroys the principle of control that kept her novels within the bounds of the generic traditions of British fiction . |
| 18 | In so doing she demonstrated the vital role of the family in early-modern towns . |
| 19 | After a time I found myself frequently addressing him as ‘ Father ’ , so naturally did he touch the gentle docile side of me . |
| 20 | Only once we were inside did we appreciate the immense scale of Wolio . |
| 21 | So greatly did they enjoy the celebrations that they stayed for three days . |
| 22 | Davidson emphasises above his own role in Provincial 's response a team effort , not only in the sense that he had to delegate a great deal in such a multi-faceted role — although ‘ logically planning goes together with finance and not only did we have the capacity to take on overseas but control of subsidiaries fits too ’ — to his deputies , and , but that the whole company was involved . |
| 23 | In the Greek Church , the mystical writings of the fifth century author who wrote under the pseudonym of Dionysius the Areopagite achieved near-canonical status : not only did they inform the devotional and liturgical life of the people , but they also influenced the development of Orthodox theology which became hostile to any rationalistic or naturalistic ways of interpreting the reality of God and religious truth . |
| 24 | Not only did they make the move , but they also managed to negotiate some funding and an arrangement whereby their staff could continue to be trained on E&Y courses . |
| 25 | Not only did they wreck the London skyline in general . |
| 26 | Not only did they guard the bridge crossing the Tyne , but they also stood at the junction of the Stanegate , running west towards Carlisle , and Dere Street , one of the two main arterial routes from York into central southern Scotland . |
| 27 | Not only did they hit the target of 28 for January and February combined , they went on to chalk up a total of 64 ! |
| 28 | Not only did they run the longest steam-hauled train ever seen on the 20-mile line since BR days , but also set a new British mileage record for the longest continuous run of Beamish Museum 's replica ‘ Locomotion ’ . |
| 29 | But when women first achieved the vote , not only did they have no soundly based organisation to support them , they also had no significant power bases in other institutions . |
| 30 | He was exact in his choice ; not only did they have the same slender shape and were equal in height , but they were malleable too . |