Example sentences of "[adv] do [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've only done the patterned bit . ’ |
| 2 | Well they 'd better do a wee test then . |
| 3 | I mean , I 've always felt that I had better do a helluva lot of acting . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've merely done a little time-tailoring , simply removed one of the pleats or flares from the ostensibly straight leg of time . |
| 6 | I turned out the f the negative upside down to do the other half , which makes 'em look Keeps the the group equally s h |
| 7 | But it is not enough to do a good job : our professional conduct committees must be seen to be doing a good job . |
| 8 | And this is unlikely to change — after all if the sales person knew enough to do a good job of giving advice they could easily start a new career as a consultant ! |
| 9 | ‘ You 've taken long enough to do a simple errand , I must say . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Many homeowners with DIY skills get the professionals in to do the tricky bits and supply the labour , or save money by managing the project themselves . |
| 12 | BRINGING CUNNING PEOPLE IN TO DO THE DIRTY WORK |
| 13 | Once a month , a gardener comes in to do the heavy work for me , and I hope he 'll dig the new pond . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If you are overweight , but are happy with the exercises you do at least three times per week , then far be it from us to interfere — continue , you are obviously doing a good job ! |
| 16 | are all doing a futile side-stroke . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ And the senator tells me that you 're only doing a two-week trial with his kids , is that right ? ’ |
| 19 | I 'm only doing the other stuff to be with you . |
| 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 | Perhaps do a little shopping yourself at the Frans Roozen Nurseries . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | ‘ They put the sniffer over it but only did a perfunctory search . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Not only did the other men not speak ; they did not move . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | An investigation by Allan ( 1979 ) , for instance , found that not only did the middle class have more friends , but they were also drawn from a greater variety of social settings and over a wider geographical area . |