Example sentences of "[not/n't] do [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can not do everything at the same time . |
| 2 | Most countries organize censuses of their population on something like ten-yearly intervals , but not all do , and they certainly do not do them at the same point in time . |
| 3 | ‘ But I made a decision that I would not do it beyond the age of 35 , and then I would return to try to make a contribution . ’ |
| 4 | Therefore , although we welcome legislation that deals with the serious issues , and although we have promised to consider it carefully in Committee , we can not do anything about the crime figures . |
| 5 | The archbishop hoped that this offer would be sufficient to restore peace , and Lancaster together with Wake and others swore a solemn oath that they had not done anything against the estate of the king or to the dishonour of his royal lordship . |
| 6 | She held his , defiantly and strongly , determined not to do anything of the sort . |
| 7 | Well , children can be allowed to express their anxieties verbally and to learn perhaps from the adults ' modelling around them that to talk about these things in moderation is perfectly acceptable erm but not to do it to the extent or to allow children to perhaps watch the news coverage to the extent that they become over excited and are not able to contain their own feelings of anxiety about loss and damage and death and separation from parents and significant adults . |
| 8 | ‘ I ‘ m not doing it for the money . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not doing it for the money , ’ said the new Bob . |
| 10 | But it 's not doing it at the moment , although there 's |
| 11 | You 're not doing it at the party ? |
| 12 | Ah , erm , but , do you think that , sorry , do you think the appraisal itself , because it 's an annual event , er , some branch managers will get to you with what turns out to be the performance review , and therefore , not doing it during the year , because of the appraisal ? |
| 13 | Oh bugger me I 'm , there 's no way I 'm not doing it by the books |
| 14 | Erm you 're now you 're not doing anything at the moment , we we agreed it was resting . |
| 15 | Oh she 's erm , she 's not doing anything at the moment because erm |
| 16 | I mean , as you say , I cover all the points but because you do n't do them in the right order perhaps you muck them up |
| 17 | ‘ We ca n't do nothing without the money . ’ |
| 18 | you have to cos they ca n't do nothing with the bits , they give you all the bits |
| 19 | But old habits die hard and I did n't do anything of the sort , but sat there pleasantly planning my new wardrobe , with the clothing coupons and the sum of money that a grateful Government had allowed me . |
| 20 | ‘ I wo n't do anything of the sort ! ’ |
| 21 | I 'm not particularly fond of the control layout , either ; all the pots in a row look a bit ‘ lumpy ’ and do n't do anything for the line of the body . |
| 22 | It did n't do anything for the tenants of this city or did n't put any new proposals forward . |
| 23 | He so concentrated on his dialogue — I never had to reshoot a scene because Kenny fluffed a line — that he could n't do anything at the same time as he was talking . ’ |
| 24 | I mean he kept , I mean he did n't do anything to the city you ca n't even see it from the old one 's still standing and it 's in the wrong it 's so nice . |
| 25 | His house was full of things she had only ever seen in old films with Rock Hudson and Doris Day : a vacuum cleaner , which did the work of a suckerdrone ; a gramophone , which played unwieldy round black musidiscs with added scratch and hiss as part of the music ; an electric kettle that took ages , maybe two minutes , to heat up enough water for a cup of recaff , and did n't do anything about the impurities and pollutants . |
| 26 | The GenTech labs could n't do anything about the common cold and no government had been able to develop a workable public transport system , but when it came to deathware , why , there were wonderful new toys on the market every fall , just in time for Christmas . |
| 27 | And I could n't do anything about the body , could I ? |
| 28 | But , since she could n't do anything about the car situation until that wretched part had been delivered , should n't she concentrate her worries on what she could do something about ? |
| 29 | ‘ I ca n't do anything with the matter if you wo n't give me the details . |
| 30 | I do n't do anything in the morning you know . |