Example sentences of "do [adv] [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 In truth she had done remarkably well staying out of her clutches for the past three days , but then , she reflected ruefully , Adam had kept his promise , staying practically glued to her side .
2 As she lost the thread entirely , all thought of telling him the work she had done so far went out of her head .
3 They would do much better to rely just on their three selves .
4 Oh look you 've done enough so do n't talk to me .
5 ‘ It is n't just long steady runs — in fact I did n't do any more plodding about before Twin Cities than I do for my 10,000m training .
6 ‘ Yer old man an ’ his sidekick done real well goin' in an' gittin' you out .
7 Right that one you 've already done up here have n't you ?
8 She 's so , done really well has n't she ?
9 SIR — In turning over a new leaf , the Labour Party would do well also to turn over a new blossom .
10 Jesus , there 'd be so many things I could do I do n't even know where to start thinking about them .
11 I mean th they , they might do n't necessarily see why it 's improving and what 's behind it , but their lot must improve if there 's industrialization and weapons and things to be made , that they they have jobs and presumably have more money than they had before when they were just sort of not doing very much .
12 Mind you , we 've done pretty well have n't we ?
13 You 've done extraordinarily well to get on to it at all . ’
14 He 's done very well has n't he ?
15 It was , therefore , a proud Rainer Zobel — the Kaiserslautern coach — who said : ‘ My players have done very well to come here and succeed .
16 In the aggregate , however , the community can not reduce its bond holdings and the attempt to do so only drives down bond prices and , therefore , leads to an increase in interest rates .
17 Er how are you doing on just going up in hundreds and not two hundreds ?
18 But the trouble is then you see what wants doing outside then do n't you ?
19 ‘ Believe me , my young friend , there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about on floats . ’
20 Because in the next five years , we 'll be doing even more to create even more solutions .
21 Second , four B , erm the proform substitution where a proform is like a pronoun or a proverb or if you fancy a pro-sentence erm sentence five Florence teased Dougal , and Brian did so too did so means teased Dougal the sentence for that is a proform .
22 Oh we did so much work yesterday Sid .
23 In the end only 11 per cent said they did not particularly lose more inches than previous dieting attempts had produced .
24 I could see that Aunt Louise did not altogether rule out nuns .
25 From some remarks in Sir Alfred Ayer 's autobiography ( Part of my Life Vol. 1 , 1978 ) , it seems that the two met infrequently and perhaps did not altogether get on .
26 Between 1958/9 and 1979/80 it rose sharply ( in England from 36.1 per cent to 48.5 per cent ) , but this did not automatically mean more central control , any more than the subsequent fall by 1984/5 to 39.2 per cent meant increased local freedom ( all figures from Travers , 1986 , table app. 7 ) .
27 Although this is true in relation to the intellectual background from which both Sutherland and Cressey were writing , it is nevertheless the case that Cressey , in particular , was sufficiently part of the positivist tradition to be interested in a precise , quantifiable theory which did not automatically rule out such mechanistic approaches .
28 Other composers did not yet differentiate so sharply between secular and sacred idioms ; even Palestrina introduced madrigalian elements — with beautiful effect — in his settings from the Song of Songs , while Victoria toward the end of his life , in 1600 , broke into a much more surprisingly secular vein in a Missa pro victoria with organ , modelled on Janequin 's ‘ La guerre ’ .
29 The fact that the lane runs so wide and straight also tells us that when it came into existence the open arable fields of Barton and Wootton did not yet extend so far .
30 In their 1958 diet ( which did not yet include so many top feature films or so much news ) , men gave their highest preferences to sport , plays , news , travel , variety , documentaries , westerns and current affairs , and their lowest to serious music , religion and science .
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