Example sentences of "do [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some students with pre-RAF flight training can skip a level and go directly to the Tucano , leaping as they do so into a world far distant from general aviation . |
| 2 | All women who come to separatism do so as a reaction to the brutality and institutionalized sexism of men . |
| 3 | In noting with regret that this is the final disc in Cappella Nova 's Carver series , I do so with a degree of puzzlement . |
| 4 | It seems to be a very deep-seated tradition , the need to add another stone to an existing pile , and many who climb hills today do so with a stone in their pocket to add to the cairn on the summit . |
| 5 | Flowers that enlist them as pollinators must cater for their tastes and produce a similar smell and often do so with an accuracy and pungency far beyond the endurance of the human nose . |
| 6 | Professional people do so on a consultancy basis , skilled manual workers as and when they can . |
| 7 | If you wish to develop assembler language programs , we suggest you do so on a computer which does not hold programs or data that you can not afford to lose . |
| 8 | Teachers must rise to the task of making sure that when parents come to judge schools they do so in a way which identifies — and , in so doing , promotes — genuine quality . |
| 9 | People do give support to their kin but they do so in a way which is patchy , possibly idiosyncratic , and which certainly can not be predicted simply from knowing how they are related to each other . |
| 10 | Those who now come to read Russian at Nottingham do so in a world much changed from that when I entered the Department twenty years ago . |
| 11 | Another possibility is that those going into residential homes shortly before their death do so in a crisis situation . |
| 12 | Certainly it was once hoped , particularly after the devastation of the last war , that modern architecture might with the aid of science and technology provide mankind with a wholly satisfying new environment — and do so in a matter of a few decades . |
| 13 | Secondly , it seems that the courts construe business sale covenants more liberally than restraints of trade in employment contracts and do so in an effort to make business sale covenants more easily enforceable : Ronbar Enterprises Ltd v Green [ 1954 ] 1 WLR 815 . |
| 14 | When someone asks a government for bloodwealth , they not only threaten bloodshed if it is not forthcoming , but do so in an idiom which denies the government 's claim to superiority , puts it on an equal footing , treats it as just another tribe . |
| 15 | Most do better with a 3-wood off the tee because the extra loft gives confidence and is more sympathetic to an indifferent strike . |
| 16 | Clown Loach do best in a shoal . |
| 17 | Some regard what they do simply as a form of legitimate adult play , while others take it far more seriously and see themselves as going beyond present human limitations , journeying into a new galaxy of knowledge in a way which they find at least as exciting as the exploration of deep space . |
| 18 | ‘ Musicals always do well in a recession because people want escapism , ’ says Patrick O'Connor of the New Grove Dictionary Of Opera . |
| 19 | Er yes , the , the , I think the one bit of it that is not Mao 's is that , is that you do unfortunately in a sense sense have these statements from the , the various bureaux and this is a , th this absolute terror is okay . |
| 20 | Those who fail or do poorly in an examination , or some other competitive test , find consolation in the wiles of witchcraft . |