Example sentences of "[noun sg] do [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have to try and get the shopping done as quickly as possible cos you 've got ta go Cubs . |
| 2 | As it is getting towards summer they would like the work done as soon as possible and subject to a satisfactory estimate I can authorise you to carry out the work . |
| 3 | Most people who supported the government when it joined the ERM did so not because they believed the forecasters ( although they were happy to do this ) , but because they believed , as a matter of principle , in the ‘ New Consensus ’ — that the active use of macroeconomic policy can only have an adverse effect and that market forces alone can deliver non-inflationary growth and full employment . |
| 4 | The task of the customer 's representative is to get a satisfactory job done as economically as possible . |
| 5 | She would get the job done as quickly as possible , and then leave . |
| 6 | Er another er rather another er on that tack of course talking about er well in this case a skeleton , I had a job to do just shortly before they closed Coney Street off fully and e it was myse I was on my own and I had t to pick up some dummies from er a ladies ' shop a dress shop . |
| 7 | Those of us who campaigned against the Gulf War did so not because we had any liking for Saddam Hussein . |
| 8 | The rest of those in the room have to try and do what the leader does as fast as possible afterwards , but without making obvious who the leader is . |
| 9 | If each member of the legislature who votes for a checkerboard compromise does so not because he himself has no principles but because he wants to give the maximum possible effect to the principles he thinks right , then how has anyone behaved irresponsibly ? |
| 10 | His reply was something like ‘ No Leeds wont do much better than last year , when they won the title everyone had exceptional seasons and played above themselves , last year was a true reflection of how good they are … ’ . |
| 11 | This candidate did respectably rather than brilliantly . |
| 12 | ‘ We must get the advance billing done as quickly as possible , ’ Stefan said reprovingly . |
| 13 | In retrospect , was leaving Lotus alone the wrong thing to do as far as the Elan was concerned ? |
| 14 | People might also resist change because of peer group pressure to do so even though , off the record , they may acknowledge the changes as beneficial . |
| 15 | That is the ability to co-ordinate the actions of members of the society in cases in which they have reason to co-ordinate their actions , and the ability to do so better than they can . |
| 16 | The Royal Africa Company did no worse than other traders in taking slaves across , but its commercial difficulties with its customers were probably worse than the average . |
| 17 | Subjects with milder phenylketonuria did consistently better than those with a more severe disorder , but this advantage disappeared when allowance was made for their better phenylalanine control . |