Example sentences of "do [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A two-run defeat seemed set fair to demoralize England , but their batsmen did not do badly in the second game at Sydney . |
| 2 | To her mistress it was understandable that she should never speak absolutely freely but it was intolerable that she could not do so to the last remaining member of her family , nor even to her husband . |
| 3 | I shall do so for the last time . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend always speaks out powerfully for Basildon : he has done so for the past eight years , and I have no doubt that he will do so for the next eight . |
| 5 | It is not that she believes this evolving female corporate future has yet been reflected by numbers of women employed at senior levels but that it is inevitable it will do so during the next decade . |
| 6 | If God can make matter think in this world , and give us material ‘ souls ’ , he can do so in the next . |
| 7 | Since only adults set up households , all those who will do so in the next 15 years are alive now , and we can estimate accurately how many will actually be alive in each age group — except perhaps for the oldest age groups — for at least that period ahead . |
| 8 | What would they do out of the second pizza ? |