Example sentences of "[pers pn] do [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do so again to counter the growing myth that Teesside is becoming some sort of earthly paradise a wonderland where industry and nature have achieved perfect harmony . |
| 2 | You did very well to have gone birthday and get home in time for , whatever time it was you did |
| 3 | But the detective in a detective novel is not altogether your real policeman , though you do well never to make him ( if he is a police officer ) flout details of proper police procedure . |
| 4 | If we must be so very careful , then , in using what people write about themselves , would we do any better to turn to what other people have to write ? |
| 5 | ‘ I would have liked to have finished the season with a win but , in the end , we did just enough to win the league . ’ |
| 6 | On the whole , though it was a partly negative performance on Leeds part , I think we did very well to get a draw . |
| 7 | He attracts ten million-plus television audiences , but how much longer will they put up with him doing just enough to beat men who have have gone beyond their ‘ sell-by ’ date ? |
| 8 | George got financial support from Parliament for troops to defend his Electorate and they did well enough to maintain his position , but he could not establish in office the ministers he really wanted , who would have been committed to full-scale involvement in Germany , so that he had to put up with a government which was not completely devoted to fighting on the continent of Europe . |
| 9 | She caught sight of it and put up her other hand , and with a finger stroked his bottom lip until he flinched and turned his head away , parting his lips as he did so however to bite her finger slightly , and close on it . |
| 10 | By 1310 , therefore , when Edward moved his court and government to York in order to escape the inhibiting surveillance of the Ordainers , he did so ostensibly to combat the Scottish menace . |
| 11 | This was based on his father 's life and it did well enough to bring in five thousand pounds . |