Example sentences of "be [prep] do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean it was cursory , it became cursory when I saw the bloody pile of stuff that I 'd got to read , and I thought , ‘ Well I 'll you know we 'll skip that and I 'll just say what a wonderful lot you are for doing so much . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I make no secret , ’ said Samuel suddenly , who had obviously been considering doing just that , ‘ that I disliked the fellow . |
| 3 | Do you think you know what they 're about do n't you . |
| 4 | That 's why you 're in do n't he ? |
| 5 | This office block we 're in did n't exist then . |
| 6 | If the person I am with does not talk , then I do not talk . |
| 7 | Later in the post it should be established how successful they have been in doing so . |
| 8 | Another thing that might be worth doing as well I mean do n't make it too complicated we ought to about which things to put in . |
| 9 | I should think there would be about du n no thirty normally . |
| 10 | ‘ We have not been as good as we could be in doing statistically valid trials ’ |
| 11 | A majority believed that UNTCOK should supervise elections in the south but Australia , Canada and India were against doing so on the grounds that it would perpetuate and not eliminate the division in Korea . |
| 12 | ‘ The whole thing about Suede , ’ he explains , ‘ is that , if it 's worth doing , it 's worth doing well ! |
| 13 | If it 's worth doing , it 's worth doing well . |
| 14 | Workfare is about doing away with jobs , employers will want to substitute workfare for real jobs , reducing still further the number of people in work , increasing still further the poverty and misery suffered by millions in Britain today . |
| 15 | The great Catholic writer and defender of the Faith , G.K. Chesterton , once wrote : ‘ If a thing is worth doing , it is worth doing badly . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ If a job is worth doing , it is worth doing well ’ — so runs the adage . |
| 17 | The best ( rated 5 ) will pay for itself in less than a year , while the least cost-effective ( rate 0 ) is worth doing only if you are planning to carry out other major renovation work at the same time . |
| 18 | Do you think you 're getting you know you know what it 's about do n't you ? |
| 19 | Almost identical characters ( played there by William Baldwin and Charlie Sheen ) were central to Backdraft and The Rookie , two of the least impressive films of last year , and it 's hard to see why anyone thought the idea was worth doing even once . |
| 20 | However the next month she had severe blood loss with the period and the Arsenicum LM3 she was on did n't produce the same sense of wellbeing . |
| 21 | The only way Glass could overcome this irreconcilable difference was by doing away with the bar lines completely . |