Example sentences of "do [adv] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With limited resources , manager Jim Jefferies has done remarkably well to keep Falkirk in the big league . |
| 2 | True enough , the stock species Rosa rugosa is often used for hedging , but if that is the hedge you want , you will do much better to buy plants raised for the purpose . |
| 3 | We were all very wary of each other , not really knowing that we wanted , what was possible or even what gay people could do together besides have sex . |
| 4 | However , not all languages have a grammatical category of number , and those that do do not necessarily view countability in the same terms . |
| 5 | In the 1990s we must do still more to introduce choice and competition on the one hand , and to reward care and commitment on the other . |
| 6 | As this work was done under carefully controlled conditions it must be concluded that the missing 40–50 per cent of bones were totally destroyed by the owls . |
| 7 | But it 's all we do we do n't even sell cake decorations or equipment . |
| 8 | Well my husband and I were married in nineteen forty four , you see , and er as you see I go every year and it 's nineteen eighty six , so therefore erm I you see I , I do n't really want people to know my age |
| 9 | What do the Government intend to do not just to offer help to individuals but to give areas such as mine the opportunity to be again a fully participating part of this nation ? |
| 10 | Joshua fills out the details of the orders , but in doing so clearly reads God 's mind , for he comes in for no heavenly rebuke . |
| 11 | I went down to put the kettle on and while I was doing so in walked Albert . |
| 12 | He attracts ten million-plus television audiences , but how much longer will they put up with him doing just enough to beat men who have have gone beyond their ‘ sell-by ’ date ? |
| 13 | He estimates that an executive sous-chef working in a top London restaurant or hotel would be earning between £25,000 and £27,000 , whereas a head chef in contract catering at a director 's dining room , for example , would be doing very well to earn £20,000 . |
| 14 | We did eventually rather lose touch , though we 'd sometimes meet in London when he was back . |
| 15 | Mr Gilchrist said the second alternative would be to impose a levy — linked to profits — on lawyers who did only privately paid work , to subsidise those who did legal aid work . |
| 16 | The north Essex side did extremely well to beat Redbridge and Ilford by the handsome score of 4–1 in the semi-final , but the rugged nature of that game paid its price . |
| 17 | The dawn — when finally it came up — did so neither like thunder , nor rosy-fingered . |
| 18 | the structural engineer 's design drawings did not clearly assign design responsibility to the steel fabricator |
| 19 | Although this last point is not in broad terms contentious , it should be noted that La Brant did not clearly establish criteria for judging complexity . |
| 20 | Can we not say that ‘ God was in the Buddha , teaching men the way of virtue and righteousness ’ , even though the Buddha did not clearly acknowledge God ? |
| 21 | He did not particularly like Franco whose view on life was rather cynical , redeemed only by the fact that he was quite willing to listen to Sandison 's halting efforts to tell his tale in Italian . |
| 22 | He did not particularly like children , though he liked trains . |
| 23 | However , there are clear baseline differences in disease severity between groups and the analysis did not properly address differences in response between treatments . |
| 24 | Probably the single most raised criticism of PageMaker in its earlier versions was that it did not automatically flow text from column to column or page to page . |
| 25 | When he arrived in America , Weill did not automatically expect New York ears to take to the music of the Berlin avant-garde in which he had played so prominent a part : instead he set himself the task of learning to write music with an American accent . |
| 26 | Unfortunately he found like others that even eminence in science did not automatically bring emolument , and in 1863 he contemplated moving to Manchester ; but Samuelson then came up with the proposal of producing a new Quarterly Journal of Science , which duly appeared in January 1864 under the editorship of Crookes and Samuelson . |
| 27 | Iris might be right in implying that Rick was the innocent victim of circumstantial evidence coupled with his own cowardly refusal to go to the police … but Rick 's innocence did not automatically confirm Barney 's guilt . |
| 28 | Clearly , given the large amount of data already impounded in share prices , and that few well-informed investors will be induced to trade index futures who did not already trade shares , the increase in information reflected in share prices is likely to be small . |
| 29 | The Court did not however read section 14(3) as restricting what might be done by different courts on different occasions . |
| 30 | While there seems to be no reason to doubt the account to this point in Molla Yegan 's career , a question is raised about Taskopruzade 's statement that he did not again hold office by a note of Molla Yegan 's ( the only example I have found of his signature ) appearing on a page of the dated 839/1435–6 , of Isa Bey , the son of Bayezid Pasa , containing the signatures of a number of notable scholars of the fifteenth century : the page , which has been reproduced in facsimile by Unver , seems indeed almost to have become an autograph book for leading scholars of the period . |