Example sentences of "to do [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , it 's limitless in n it , but the other way is to do right down the centre , one on one and one on the other |
| 2 | I want to do right by the kid , give them a good home . |
| 3 | We were keen to do right by the priority groups . |
| 4 | We 'll still have to do all round the doors , round the you know . |
| 5 | And if he and his secretary had returned , she felt she stood a better chance of establishing an interview by calling in person rather than trying to do so over the phone . |
| 6 | It is common practice for a collector wishing to resell works that he owns to do so through the gallery of origin , for a variety of reasons . |
| 7 | The common outcome of these age discriminatory elements of the social security system is that two people with equally severe disabilities receive widely differing benefits and total incomes simply as a result of their age , and will continue to do so under the Government 's recent proposals . |
| 8 | Individual users of software will not be permitted to copy or distribute copies of any software product or its documentation unless permitted to do so under the terms of the licence . |
| 9 | There is no appropriation at the moment when he takes possession of the goods because he was entitled to do so under the terms of the contract of sale , a contract which is , it is true , voidable , but has not been avoided at the time the goods are handed over . |
| 10 | There is no appropriation at the moment when he takes possession of the goods because he was entitled to do so under the terms of the contract of sale , a contract which is , it is true , voidable , but has not been avoided at the time the goods are handed over . |
| 11 | The accused took possession of the goods because he was entitled to do so under the terms of the contract . |
| 12 | Although Marian and Allen had not passed north of the Swamp in the night the Leader thought it probable that they might try to do so during the day . |
| 13 | Many said that they welcomed the opportunity to work , and were not able to do so during the week because there was no one look after their children . |
| 14 | Unless a Guardian ad Litem ( GAL ) is appointed , they may have to do so without the assistance of a welfare report . |
| 15 | FTC could probably make the idea work without coverage of the 22 Premier League clubs or the European Cup mini-leagues , but it would be impossible to do so without the co-operation of the Football League clubs unloaded by the Premier League as , ironically , an impediment to their progress . |
| 16 | Curiously , this is the only Powell/Pressburger film to give such credits and the first Powell one to do so since the multi-directed The Thief of Bagdad ( 1940 ) , which in fact won that year 's Oscar for effects and sound . |
| 17 | As reported on June 22 , the government announced that 20-year contracts would be offered to several companies to explore and develop marginal oil fields , the first time commercial companies had been allowed to do so since the nationalization of the oil industry in 1976 . |
| 18 | From Germany , they travelled by train to Sweden , where he applied for asylum , the first American citizen to do so since the Vietnam War . |
| 19 | The ultimate holding company function will highlight related companies within groups and identify companies which , while they appear to be too small to do the deal , may be able to do so with the support of their holding company . |
| 20 | But they would greatly prefer to do so with the benefit of seeing the actual documents . |
| 21 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 22 | ‘ 2(1) The powers of the Director under this section shall be exercisable , but only for the purposes of an investigation under section 1 above , or , on a request made by the Attorney-General of the Isle of Man , Jersey or Guernsey , under legislation corresponding to that section and having effect in the Island whose Attorney-General makes the request , in any case in which it appears to him that there is good reason to do so for the purpose of investigating the affairs , or any aspect of the affairs , of any person . |
| 23 | She marched straight into Tony Richardson 's office in her summer dress and sandals , sorted out Walter 's money to her satisfaction , and continued to do so for The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and Tom Jones , nine Merchant-Ivory films and more recently Ballad of the Sad Café , from Carson McCullers 's poignant novel . |
| 24 | IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 . |
| 25 | In truth , he also wanted to get married and could not afford to do so on the salary he was receiving at the Yorkshire Institution — one of the worst paid in the country . |
| 26 | High-tech weaponry has certainly kept down casualties during the air war ( it will have less ability to do so on the ground ) . |
| 27 | Supported by the Government Agent , Ridgeway refused to do so on the ground that it was commonly believed in the district that the men were guilty . |
| 28 | The relevant statute empowered the minister to set up such a committee but in this case he refused to do so on the ground that the complaint was unsuitable for investigation because it raised wide issues ; that if the committee upheld the complaint he would be expected to make an order to give effect to the committee 's recommendations ; and that the complaint should be dealt with by the Board rather than by the committee of investigation . |
| 29 | The court recognised that it did have a discretion under the Rules of the Supreme Court to allow service to stand despite the failure to comply with the relevant Rules , but declined to do so on the facts ; it would take ‘ a very strong case ’ , for example express representation by the defendant that the method of service adopted was lawful , before the discretion would be exercised . |
| 30 | It would be easy to do so on the basis that his fusion of science and religion was really a confusion . |