Example sentences of "[adv] do the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've only done the patterned bit . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 'm only doing the other stuff to be with you . |
| 7 | Good old Britain : not only doing the wrong thing but unable to keep it secret . |
| 8 | But in so doing the Prime Minister overlooked two crucial aspects of what was decided at that summit . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I only did the nude modelling because my sister did it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Not only did the British Library provide the principal funding for the seminar , but its staff also provided valuable contributions . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Not only did the hon. Member for Neath ( Mr. Hain ) get his facts wrong , but the key point — |
| 19 | ‘ If he knows , so do the Grand Army . |
| 20 | ‘ I have been teaching Connections since it first came out , and I enjoy it very much , and so do the vast majority of our students . ’ |
| 21 | So do the Chinese press statements asserting that Hong Kong is ‘ entirely a business between China and Britain ’ and should not be discussed , formally or informally , at any international forum . |
| 22 | They all deserve to enjoy the pleasure of an historic , beautiful , grand old theatre like the Neptune — and so do the theatre-loving public . |
| 23 | The Observer carries helpful articles on careers during the late summer months ; so do The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian . |
| 24 | So did the Canadian financier Conrad Black . |
| 25 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 26 | The Roman toga went out of fashion fifteen hundred years ago , so did the Roman cookbook . |
| 27 | The domain-specific dictionaries made a significant contribution to each respective domain-specific text , but so did the general dictionary . |
| 28 | The bank rate went down , and so did the Irish government , while the weight of lorries allowed on the roads of Britain went up from 3212 to 38 tonnes . |
| 29 | So did the mysterious attack on the home of a leading multi-party proponent . |
| 30 | So did the Labour Party have staunch working class support in |