Example sentences of "do [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has done so at the expense of sharp cuts in living standards and in expenditure on its long-established system of social services and free education . |
| 2 | He remembered falling , and the deck coming up to hit him , which brought back the sensation — although it had n't done so at the time — of the moment just before the torpedo hit Lanark . |
| 3 | ‘ I think she had done enough at the end and it was beginning to hurt , ’ Elsworth said . |
| 4 | 624 ( see above , p. 41 ) , he did not do so at the court of the king of the eastern Angles but at that of the still-powerful Eadbald , king of Kent , whom he seems to have continued to treat with considerable respect . |
| 5 | Joshua 6 ends with a curse pronounced over the charred corpses of the city 's inhabitants , promising anyone who might rebuild the city that he will do so at the cost of the lives of his own children . |
| 6 | ‘ it is , in my view , clear that the court , in considering whether a continuing situation of one or other of the kinds described in section 1(2) ( a ) exists , must do so at the point of time immediately before the process of protecting the child concerned is first put into motion . |
| 7 | Another thing , sociology would seem to be saying that those who have wealth and do well do so at the expense of the poor unfortunate . |
| 8 | If a meme is to dominate the attention of a human brain , it must do so at the expense of ‘ rival ’ memes . |
| 9 | The firm which wishes to increase its market share in a static market must do so at the expense of its competitors . |
| 10 | They say that if they create Regional Government they will do so at the expense of National Government and not Local Government , but that is n't true because Mister has already said that erm strategic services such as passenger transport will b will be handed over to regions and if that goes obviously fire , police and strategic planning will be lost to us . |
| 11 | Could I just ask you , did those bodices do up at the back with hooks and eyes ? |
| 12 | They could have done worse at the Correspondent , but they could n't get it . |
| 13 | One party can only do well at the expense of another , in competition for resources , recognition etc . |
| 14 | It was a Saturday night in February , and Jonathon Blagrave had done well at the town 's market . |
| 15 | Old Lillian Tibbs had done well at the Market . |
| 16 | This matching ( usually , but not necessarily , on a one-to-one basis ) might be done prospectively at the start of the study , but , if that degree of control is possible , it is usually preferable to use randomization as discussed later ( in Section 15.4 ) . |
| 17 | Parishioners say if they want to speak to him they have to do so at the gate . |
| 18 | He was on good terms with Marcus , content to know both that they would talk again , and that it was impossible to do so at the moment . |
| 19 | We 're certainly not in a position to do so at the moment . |
| 20 | To put it slightly differently , it is important to understand that the poverty of the Third World and the wealth of the West are the outcome of an interlinked process in which the rapid and massive growth in Western prosperity has occurred and continues to do so at the expense and underdevelopment of the Third World . |
| 21 | ‘ I rarely get away from church without someone finding something for me to do up at the manor . |
| 22 | Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway . |
| 23 | All that was needed was for one kind of film to do well at the box-office and a new Hollywood format would be established . |
| 24 | In the 690s Aethelred granted land in Hwiccian territory to Oftfor , bishop of Worcester , seemingly without reference to any local prince ( CS 76 : S 76 ; CS 75 : S 77 ) ; Aethelbald was certainly doing so at the beginning of his reign in 716–7 ( CS 137 : S 102 ) . |
| 25 | They are looking after their commercial interests , but unfortunately they are doing so at the expense of the tenants and customers , the very people who are supposed to benefit from the legislation . |
| 26 | So , for many years , the couple made their living as hired help , and were doing so at the time of the film 's success . |
| 27 | I mean I actually voted for this contract , erm , rather reluctantly , but it seemed better than not , doing so at the time , but we were given assurances , and it was very well understood by absolutely everybody , that vigorous management would be needed in order to achieve the targetising and that was the only way that the savings were going to be made , and it does seem that , that , erm that has not been going on . |
| 28 | Er , she says that she 's er , there 's absolutely nothing doing just at the moment , erm , but she says that she never knows the time when she will be called upon to you know , be asked to do a trip , but |
| 29 | And often you forget , and your brain flies off somewhere to do something else , I fancied that bird last night , God the beer 's rough in that bloody hotel , I wonder what that , I wonder how they 're doing up at the depot ? |
| 30 | Dalziel grunted and thought that Jacko must be doing well at the moment to be in , for him , so light-hearted a mood . |