Example sentences of "do [pron] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | do n't forget when they 're added when they 're added you can do them one bit at a time . |
2 | It makes no sense for them to stay here ; that 's been tried and it did n't do them any good in the long run . |
3 | They would n't do me any good with my Service I grant-you that . ’ |
4 | Will curry do me any harm after this ? |
5 | That I too have done my little bit for pollution ? |
6 | Oh , oh , well we 'd better go then , but we 'll come back next year because that was good I said no I 'm sorry you wo n't actually I 'm going I 've done my little bit for a while , no one else . |
7 | At all events the British ( headed by Thompson ) , and indeed other physicists who had done their creative work in thermodynamics , were strongly tempted by the view that man had now acquired a definitive understanding of the laws of nature ( though a Helmholtz or Boltzmann was rightly unconvinced ) . |
8 | Most of them had done their basic training in one of the Guards regiments and most had completed the Commando course . |
9 | They derive their power from being taken for granted , so that they can do their destructive work without themselves being checked for validity or reality . |
10 | No , looks as though they 've done you some sort of . |
11 | It 's arguable that the industry has done itself more damage by its inflated claims than anything else , because they spared people like Rifkin into action . |
12 | It wo n't do you any good in the future , will it ? |
13 | And it is true to say that , provided you do not suffer from any particular allergy or illness , a certain amount of food commonly considered to be ‘ bad ’ for you wo n't do you any harm at all . |
14 | they go to church because they 've done something wrong half of them |
15 | Kirov 's done his best work for us , anyway . ’ |
16 | He had already done his first translation of one of Hitler 's speeches into English . |
17 | And Gordon has done his first deal with his wife Maggie McKernan . |
18 | He had done his initial research on jane Austen , but since then had turned his attention to topics as varied as medieval sermons , Elizabethan sonnet sequences , Restoration heroic tragedy , eighteenth-century broadsides , the novels of William Godwin , the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and premonitions of the Theatre of the Absurd in the plays of George Bernard Shaw . |
19 | He had done his initial research on Jane Austen , but since then had turned his attention to topics as various as medieval sermons , Elizabethan sonnet sequences , Restoration heroic tragedy , eighteenth-century broadsides , the novels of William Godwin , the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and premonitions of the Theatre of the Absurd in the plays of George Bernard Shaw . |
20 | Maybe he 'd joined a ship , he 'd done his national service in the navy . |
21 | Er , I sorry , , just clearing my throat , er , I did , I did delegate if somebody put it on the end of somebody 's assignment , then I to it , but I tend to find I underestimate what people can do for me all the time , and do n't identify just how much those people can give me back , and I did , or I do have a tendency at times to give people like before , to hold on too much , try and do too much myself , and er , you ca n't do it that way in case . |
22 | But if you wanted to take your revenge and kill me , because of some ancient grudge against somebody who 's been dust for 200 years , then why did n't you just do it last night at my house ? |
23 | This is traditionally done in early spring , although you can do it any time between autumn and late spring . |
24 | See it again , right , I 'll just do it this time without talking it through , and you can just watch |
25 | He has run 165 marathons , 76 half-marathons , nine 61-milers , 13 30-milers and 13 25-milers — and he did n't do his first marathon until shortly before his 60th birthday . |
26 | Playing the Tory game does not work in securing power , and would n't do us any good in the long term even if it did . |
27 | I could do me own wack of er , playing about like , you know . |
28 | What 's the matter shall I do your other bottle for you ? |
29 | It 's a pity you did n't do your outer edge with roses |
30 | Obviously you can not know in advance which type of mat will be used at a particular tournament , so you should do your final training on any type of mat , just to get used to the feel , and then try to use any free time you may have on the actual competition areas to get a little practice in beforehand . |