Example sentences of "[adv] do the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the ferret has fallen down a vertical hole within the burrow the line ferret , on approaching , may not necessarily do the same thing . |
| 2 | I 've only done the patterned bit . ’ |
| 3 | I think you should all do the same questionnaire and the same survey but then if you can write it up separately . |
| 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 turned out the f the negative upside down to do the other half , which makes 'em look Keeps the the group equally s h |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | BRINGING CUNNING PEOPLE IN TO DO THE DIRTY WORK |
| 8 | Once a month , a gardener comes in to do the heavy work for me , and I hope he 'll dig the new pond . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | TIF , and many other types of file , all to do the same job ? |
| 11 | What I find horrible is that there are so many organisations or or places all over Great Britain , they 're all doing the same sort of tests ! |
| 12 | All doing the same thing with all with the same earning potential . |
| 13 | Look , we 're all doing the same thing at different |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And so , you know , on the business desk you might have three teams and the first team is only doing the first page and the opinion and the second team is doing a large amount of financial news and the third team is doing the company news , and then the erm there 's a graphics person who 's working on charts and stuff . |
| 16 | I 'm only doing the other stuff to be with you . |
| 17 | Good old Britain : not only doing the wrong thing but unable to keep it secret . |
| 18 | But in so doing the Prime Minister overlooked two crucial aspects of what was decided at that summit . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | Not only did the First World War produce a major crisis of authority for the old order , but it also resulted in the harnessing by the State , on an unprecedented scale , of the power and resources of the nation towards the war effort . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I only did the nude modelling because my sister did it . |
| 24 | Not only did the Belgian Army remain threateningly ensconced in Antwerp , but Winston Churchill , First Lord of the Admiralty , had ordered a brigade of 3,000 British Marines to Ostend on 17 August . |
| 25 | In his case , not only did the uncovered secret last but he sold it to Life magazine for what was in 1955 the veritable king 's ransom of $25,000 . |
| 26 | I must have done , as not only did the Old Bill and the Ritas ( as in Meter Maid ) ignore me , but a real cabbie parked nearby came over to pass the time of day . |
| 27 | Not only did the British Library provide the principal funding for the seminar , but its staff also provided valuable contributions . |
| 28 | Not only did the sturdy lock crown a storming performance by bullocking over for a try in the final minute , he undoubtedly played himself into a Lions place . |
| 29 | Not only did the hon. Member for Neath ( Mr. Hain ) get his facts wrong , but the key point — |
| 30 | ‘ If he knows , so do the Grand Army . |