Example sentences of "do [adv] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he had done so she brought it back to England . |
| 2 | ‘ When I have done so I think I shall retire again . ’ |
| 3 | They would said what they would do well they did everything while we were there |
| 4 | you need a microscope do n't you to see it |
| 5 | ‘ Caro , for God 's sake , if you have n't got anything better to do why do n't you help us ? |
| 6 | I do , clearly , do n't I. Then why do n't I like it ? ) |
| 7 | You would do almost anything to inspire it . |
| 8 | And she did not do what hedgehogs usually do when they find themselves in a bit of trouble : curl up in a tight , prickly ball . |
| 9 | GUSHIEST COMMENT : ‘ The greatest thing you can do do when you love somebody is to make another human being . ’ |
| 10 | David had done absolutely nothing to earn his spurs when Samuel anointed him . |
| 11 | Even when she managed to do so she knew he would n't understand . |
| 12 | And it came home to me that you know we all had to come to terms in some way with erm with what it was all about and the kids and you know and it became something of a I mean i it was the experience that we went through you know it was i it was you know something that we 'll always remember I think because it 'll always make Christmas different I think for us in a way you know but it And when they came up from South Wales with car loads and van loads and I mean we all just sobbed you know I mean there was nothing to do really you know it was just and I think anyway that was Christmas , but I mean er . |
| 13 | And erm the really distressing thing is I think Christopher is saying what to do now I think he is saying oh you know |
| 14 | Now what I want you to do now I want you to draw a factor tree of three hundred and sixty . |
| 15 | ‘ Ben and I protect Durance 's reputation and in doing so we protect our own interests . ’ |
| 16 | Thus we call a belief an illusion when a wish-fulfilment is a prominent factor in its motivation , and in doing so we disregard its relation to reality , just as the illusion itself sets no store by verification . |
| 17 | In doing so they adapt their search requirement to the system in the hope of matching the system 's language . |
| 18 | Such bombs often smash into other bigger , stationary boulders at the base of the cone , shattering into smithereens , but in doing so they leave their own mark on the boulder . |
| 19 | By doing so they tied their fortunes even more firmly to the popularity of the Soviet Union , placing a series of time-bombs under themselves which began exploding in 1947 and 1948 . |
| 20 | The reason they do this is in order to link general criticisms of the capitalist economic system with a specific analysis of the poverty of the elderly , but in doing so they shift their point of reference . |
| 21 | The reader may interpret the " flock " metaphorically , but by doing so he distances himself from the character . |
| 22 | The writer writes out of his own wounds and in doing so he enables his reader to experience emotional change , emotional growth , healing without having to suffer the same fate as his character . |
| 23 | We might say that Wordsworth has slanted his autobiography to fit a theory ; in doing so he denied his own high academic attainment . |
| 24 | But in emphasising the role of the norm he is quite consciously diminishing the role of the state — at least as expressed in its legal apparatus — and in doing so he underplays its role in constructing attitudes to sexuality , through marriage laws , the regulation of deviance , the judiciary , the police , as well as , more generally , the education system , the welfare system , and so on . |
| 25 | So he swallowed her small cries , but in the end it was not the safeguard she had sought , because in doing so he fed her the taste of himself once more and left a hunger in her which she sensed would last a long , long time , if not an eternity . |
| 26 | Pontius Pilate , also he rejects the Lord Jesus and in doing so he hated himself for it . |
| 27 | What really matters is not how the horse won , but that he did win , and that in doing so he ended his racecourse career displaying that sparkling but short-lived turn of foot for which he will long be remembered . |
| 28 | The accused agrees to transfer shares to the victim but before doing so he transfers them to a third party . |
| 29 | However in doing so you deprived us of detailed insights into the conditions of life in other parts of the world , and played into the hands of the New Right with its ‘ divide and conquer ’ tactics . |
| 30 | I just wanted to say three brief things about the boundaries , before doing so I think I may have to declare a personal interest . |