Example sentences of "do [adv] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But having done so it rendered the Convention otiose except in relation to non-EEC members of the Council of Europe . |
| 2 | Having done so he folded the sheet of paper again , replaced it in his pocket and made to leave . |
| 3 | Could Puttnam not have done more himself to change the cultural attitude of governments ? |
| 4 | ‘ In Holland if coaches do n't do well they get the sack , so I am philosophical about the matter . |
| 5 | Do n't you just do n't you go the Registry Office ? |
| 6 | The Shah had built up his armed forces and had begun to create a nationwide secret police , but he had done almost nothing to meet the disparate but urgent demands of his people . |
| 7 | Still deeply marked by the folk-memory of the Depression , they looked kindly upon Keynesianism and would do almost anything to avoid the dangers of mass unemployment . |
| 8 | Why does he just sit there and do absolutely nothing to combat the recession that his policies have caused ? |
| 9 | When I spoke to the Conservative association in the hon. Gentleman 's constituency I heard only a litany of problems caused by the Labour-controlled council , which has done absolutely nothing to promote the area . |
| 10 | The Government must have known it was coming again , yet has done absolutely nothing to prevent the side-effects . |
| 11 | In the past China had been plundered by westerners eager to exploit large markets and in doing so they brought the nation to its knees . |
| 12 | The resulting contract was contingent upon the society 's decision to proceed with obtaining a valuation , and by doing so they purified the contract . |
| 13 | This results in the open field lines convecting polewards under the magnetic ‘ tension ’ force , and in doing so they accelerate the magnetosheath ions that flow along them and cross the magnetopause . |
| 14 | By doing so they amended the three basic treaties which respectively created the European Coal and Steel Community ( which came into existence in 1951 ) , the European Atomic Energy Community and the European Economic Community ( Euratom and EEC — both of which came into operation in 1958 ) . |
| 15 | Bakewell bred not only for meat but for as much tallow as possible and in doing so he improved the Longhorn but at the same time destroyed its future prospects . |
| 16 | In doing so he reduced the influence of the Takeshita faction , hitherto the largest internal faction within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) . |
| 17 | In doing so he voiced the main concern of all the watchful parties : the risk that control through physical restraint may emerge as common practice over the use of counselling . |
| 18 | Law was bound to give way but in doing so he sacrificed the only positive policy he had . |
| 19 | I later recorded he invariably used the idea of an ‘ escape from real work ’ to describe any research secondment ; in doing so he embodied the common institutional fear of uncontrolled social movement across a divide or boundary into another society such as academia . |
| 20 | In doing so he exposes the pre-acquisition write-down , the timing of recognition of deferred consideration and the impact of disposals . |
| 21 | In doing so he lost the only friends he had here in Paris , such as they were . |
| 22 | In doing so he reveals the most frequently denied value of humour a defence against the world 's cruel pressures . |
| 23 | In doing so it saves the dieter from the common curse of constipation , mainly caused by lack of bulk in normal slimming diets . |
| 24 | Interestingly , although neoclassicism allowed individual differences to influence punishments on the grounds of justice , in doing so it paved the way for the later , positivist conception of the causes and treatment of crime . |
| 25 | It shifts interaction between pupils away from casual social conversation in the direction of discussion about the task in hand , and in doing so it reduces the amount of time spent by the teacher on matters of routine . |
| 26 | In doing so it used the temporary 1951–3 increase in employment of older workers rather than the wider post-war trend to earlier retirement . |
| 27 | In doing so it checks the following : |
| 28 | Brown and Kulik ( 1977 ) were struck by the fact that people were generally able to answer this question without difficulty , the important point being not that they remembered the assassination but that they remembered apparently irrelevant details such as where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news . |
| 29 | Shakespeare knew what he was doing when he called the play ‘ As You Like It ’ . |
| 30 | The latter is indicated in scene eight by his greater turn-allocation ( 11 instances out of 15 turns ) which indicates his interest both in what Chetwyn was doing when he missed the afternoon session of the Colloquium , and in McKendrick 's academic topic of philosophy and catastrophe theory . |