Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] do [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the judge said that even though the man promised not to do it again , he found such behaviour extremely offensive and ordered him to give £50 to each of the women . |
| 2 | But you 'd better do it carefully . |
| 3 | Oh I 'll give you , I 'll give you a pound do n't worry , make sure you do the job properly , mm you 'd better do it outside , cos the er , the boot polish do n't go on the carpet . |
| 4 | If they were on Snakebite , I 'd better do it quickly . |
| 5 | Some time later a man came along the path and stopped to ask me if I was all right , I told him yes and to please go away , which he did but I thought he 'll go to fetch help so I 'd better do it now . |
| 6 | If you want to be out on that pitch when the referee blows his whistle , you 'd better do it now . ’ |
| 7 | After the end of the First World War and when the motor car came in did they still come along on horses ? |
| 8 | I got a caution , and told not to do it again . |
| 9 | ‘ But you 're right , Ben , we 'd best do something straight away . |
| 10 | Well , the way I 'd always done it before was , change it to value , before I combined it . |
| 11 | When a chance came up to do them early we took it , although it meant we only had nine working days to fit in with Magnox Shutdown . |
| 12 | She 'd never done anything so violent in her life , and she raised eyes full of compunction to his . |
| 13 | Given another two seconds she might well have flung something a lot harder and heavier at him , even though she 'd never done anything as temperamental in her life . |
| 14 | Minutes later he 'phoned back and asked how to place a bet because he 'd never done it before . |
| 15 | He 'd never done it before but thought it sounded like harmless fun . |
| 16 | After my first I felt totally guilt-ridden and swore never to do it again . |
| 17 | He also told the group and me that we did not do anything right . |
| 18 | Nicholson recognized later that Mud had given him his head ; he appreciated the responsibility and did not do anything too foolish ; irresponsibility came later when he was well outside of any parental influence . |
| 19 | If I sat still and did not do anything then nothing else could happen that I might have to cope with . |
| 20 | The tall dark-faced man seemed to have no problem managing his robes , though his haste did n't do him much good . |
| 21 | I want to look at your aluminium windows , let's say we did n't do them right |
| 22 | Well , it did n't do them much good May Lee came and rescued me In fact she seized me by the arm ‘ Well ? ’ she said |
| 23 | I 'm not — they 're all dirty , I did n't do them yesterday , they wo n't be dry . |
| 24 | An O S one to fifty thousand and that 's what I thought I 'd picked up this morning to take with me but when I looked it was Chester and Wrexham so it did n't do me much good . |
| 25 | ‘ I realised that if I did n't do something really quickly perhaps I would n't be able to . |
| 26 | I am irritated British Rail did n't do something then , ’ he added . |
| 27 | If she did n't do something now , he was going to screw everything up . |
| 28 | ‘ Perhaps , in retrospect , I should n't have gone out there because I did n't do myself any favours . |
| 29 | he says and then they did n't do nowt else . |
| 30 | Well when you 're a waitress and you mix you know with all sorts and you hear different people talking and what they did and what they did n't do you now and some had Doctor pills at that time in the nineteen thirties and some used the Indian bark . |