Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You gentlemen would do well to remember that fact ’ |
| 2 | I would have loved to have been able to do more to turn that vision into reality . |
| 3 | ‘ The Orbital two-stroke is the engine of the future and Ford , with its fleet of 60 special Fiestas now running , is doing more to grasp that future than anyone ’ |
| 4 | Carefoot ( 1977 ) , considering the feeding habits of the Pacific V. lamellosa predating mussels , Mytilus edulis , or acorn barnacles , Balanus glandula , in the laboratory , did not make that mistake . |
| 5 | But abolitionists did not reach that position along a single straight path . |
| 6 | Zsuzsa , who had been playing chess since the age of four , won her Master title in 1982 at the age of 13 ( Karpov did not reach that standard until 15 ) ; she was an International Master at 18 . |
| 7 | He said the council is pledged to quality service throughout the town and cars parked in gardens did not match that pledge . |
| 8 | Sociologists who lend their names or their work to a particular social policy are engaging in a political act ; they can not escape by saying that the use of their work to justify a particular social policy ( even if they did not advocate that policy ) is not their concern . |
| 9 | Women did not do that kind of thing , even in cosmopolitan Cairo . |
| 10 | You simply did not do that sort of thing to men like Luke Denner ! |
| 11 | Franco , however , did not fit that mould . |
| 12 | Mother actually calls me Lisa but I did not think that name appropriate to this strange meeting and anyway I have never liked it . |
| 13 | The man did not think that Boy ever gave his address or phone number to anyone . |
| 14 | By every law of the genre , the death of the tall weed should have vindicated the life of the other , as the death of the grasshopper vindicates the ants , but the story somehow did not end that way . |
| 15 | He did not sleep that night as he was too worked up with what had happened . |
| 16 | When they did not return that night , Richard led a search party for them at first light the following morning . |
| 17 | ‘ without due care and attention ’ Means that the driver did not exercise that degree of care and attention which a reasonable and prudent driver would exercise in the circumstances . |
| 18 | In a letter to Herbert Read , dated " 16 February " ( probably written in 1925 ) he described a racial prejudice from which he was not immune — although he did not specify that prejudice , its nature is clear from the context , in which he offered Disraeli as an example of what he meant . |
| 19 | The fact that other works of art not belonging to Capricorn were also on the premises did not affect that conclusion : nor did the absence of any outward sign of Capricorn on the premises have any significance , since it would be uncharacteristic for art dealers in objects of such high quality to place conspicuous nameplates on their premises . |
| 20 | If I may remind the right hon. Gentleman , I did not invent that figure . |
| 21 | That invention had been awarded an English patent but B did not mention that fact to the plaintiffs , and after he left he acquired it . |
| 22 | I am glad that I did not miss that intervention , because it has contributed so much to the debate . |
| 23 | A five-year old memory did not explain that feeling . |
| 24 | Their moods did not meet that night . |
| 25 | If Lord Eldon used any language which could be so interpreted , we must conclude that he either did not guard himself so cautiously as he intended , or that he did not lend that degree of attention to the legal doctrine connected with the case before him , which he was accustomed to afford . |
| 26 | Margaret Thatcher did not like that thought , not one little bit . |
| 27 | She did not like that accusation . |
| 28 | Coach Olsen ( which is a mastermind on football and builds some of his philosphy on a book written by and old english gentleman kicked out by the FA years ago ) did not like that fact that Sorloth prioritied ( ? ) his club football — and Sorloth might have weakened his position . |
| 29 | Years later she told me that she did not like that book , and I do not know if that were due to a momentary impatience with it or if ( as I hope it was not ) it was a permanent feeling of dissatisfaction , for it seems to me so beautiful . |
| 30 | Ellen did not like that suggestion . |