Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] do [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As technology and standards change so does public expectation . |
| 2 | But in industrial countries in particular — or in countries that abut industrial countries — the rain has been growing steadily more acidic in recent decades , to the point where it has already done severe damage to ancient buildings and statues , where it is has virtually destroyed vast numbers of trees in continental Europe ( notably Germany ) and killed most of the life , including the fish and crayfish , in many of the lakes and rivers of Scandinavia . |
| 3 | Even in less overtly sex-segregated cultures , as researchers like Marjorie Goodwin have argued , it is still usual for children to develop their communicational skills within single sex peer groups , and if these are organised differently to do different things , the speech norms girls and boys acquire may well be different too . |
| 4 | ‘ I felt I 'd already done Prime Suspect , ’ says Lynda , although she did supply the plot outline . |
| 5 | Or a trade may be used not to do new business , but to transfer a credit balance between accounts . |
| 6 | We 've then got well to do middle peasants , we 've got middle peasants who would in turn |
| 7 | This is about as likely a piece of social intercourse as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Neil Young getting together to do National Good Looks Fortnight . |
| 8 | Self employed craftsmen are called in to do specific work on the cars being restored , each with their own special skills . |
| 9 | I never really consciously set out to do war photography ; I set out to do political photography , international politics and a lot of that revolves around conflict . |
| 10 | They know how to do certain tasks , because they have been shown — but do they know why they are doing them ? |
| 11 | The pair went on to do similar work in Buckinghamshire in 1766 to 1768 and Yorkshire from 1767 to 1770 . |
| 12 | You went on to do sterling work in the diarrhoea , headaches and vomiting department and you ended up coughing out your last in a way that Henry thought would be entirely suitable for Elinor . |
| 13 | So it was that they went on to do other things , but separately ; a ‘ beautiful ’ working relationship was thereby broken up , and two highly creative thinkers had their play-writing ambitions stillborn . |
| 14 | And as you continuously improve an area , the people that that frees up , the additional labour , go on to do additional improvement work . |
| 15 | Community development theory and practice offer special challenges to all health workers but also a new way to go about doing health-related work with people . |
| 16 | Israel 's great sin was n't that it did not do good things — but that it did not obey the Law , the Torah . |
| 17 | The cynic in me says it is because the larger firms do not do small audits and because abolition would cause problems for the ACCA , which would have more difficulty maintaining an audit regulatory presence as fewer of their members would be auditing . |
| 18 | One aim of the SCRE Practitioner Award is to encourage teachers who start out to do small-scale research to press on and , despite pressures of time and other demands , to analyse the data , evaluate the weight of their conclusions , write up a report and communicate the outcome to others . |
| 19 | They did n't do nice things like that . |
| 20 | You did n't do new geography did you ? |
| 21 | Pity they did n't do other stuff besides |
| 22 | But you do realize you would be lynched if you did n't do Poor Man , |
| 23 | presumably those horses do n't do long spells of that sort |
| 24 | Oh well they do n't do advanced degrees . |
| 25 | ‘ Brownies do n't do good turns for rewards , ’ Heather told him , ‘ but , ’ she added eagerly , ‘ if you would let us use your loft as a meeting-place we 'd promise not to do any damage or make ourselves nuisances , would n't we , Shirley ? ’ |
| 26 | It 's just that most fish shops do n't do bright boxes and balloons . ’ |
| 27 | Like Miss if you do n't do hard work you 'll get a flat face ! |
| 28 | How do you get a flat face if you do n't do hard work ? |
| 29 | ‘ We do n't do paying guests . |
| 30 | Erm in fact do n't do Yellow Pages any more it 's I B T |