Example sentences of "and do [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leisurely lunch is over and you can now stretch out and do just as you please . |
| 2 | In his personal relationships with Athman , and his political stance on colonial oppression , Gide could claim to have said and done more than most at that time . |
| 3 | It 's gone further and done more than 12 labours of the mythical Hercules . |
| 4 | To get out was a considerable achievement : to go on to etch his own personality on the world was so rare as to be wonderful : but to do it on his own terms , in his own way and to do exactly as he wanted was astounding . |
| 5 | These are the highly successful , who must be encouraged to stay and to do well for they are the motor that pulls the rest up ; they create prosperity and employ other people . |
| 6 | Above all , this means taking a strategic view of multimedia and its impact on traditional publishing practice and markets and to do so while there is still time . |
| 7 | The overriding concern of the populists , however , was to free the peasantry from poverty and to do so before Russia had irrevocably embarked upon capitalist development in agriculture and industry . |
| 8 | Detecting 10 pg of anything is taxing , and doing so when it is effectively ‘ contaminated ’ with a million-fold excess of somewhat similar DNA fragments is even harder . |
| 9 | Both played superbly , clinching the Australians £20,000 of the £25,000 prize money on offer from Texaco and doing almost as they liked with the England bowlers in a perfectly-timed run chase . |
| 10 | You imagine this war gives you the excuse to disobey me and do exactly as you wish . |
| 11 | If you manage to take off , follow me and do exactly as I do . |
| 12 | The superscalar 7100 will operate at up to 100MHz and do better than 120 ( old ) SPECmarks , the company claimed at its announcement ( UX No 373 ) . |
| 13 | Educationally , girls work harder and do better than if they had still been in school . |
| 14 | ( iv ) Individuals choose to belong to national groups ( even if the oppressing force reduces the range of choice to a very narrow one ) and do so as the selection of a strategy for action , not the passive recognition of some primordial ordering . |
| 15 | She watched very carefully and did exactly as he did except that when he had given two low bows she did ‘ two quick bobs ’ . |
| 16 | Machinery overcame this skill deficiency , and did so while bringing constantly falling costs . |
| 17 | They had always had the potential to control their fertility and did so when necessary . |
| 18 | After a year at training college to qualify as a teacher , he had two years at a comprehensive school in St Neots , Hunts. , but he wanted to achieve much more as a music teacher and did so when he became assistant director at Sevenoaks . |
| 19 | Despairing in his heart that anything further could be done to improve the conditions of seafarers , Plimsoll nevertheless continued to work without respite to promote the cause in which he so passionately believed , and did so until illness forced him out of the public scene . |
| 20 | The one-to-one teaching usually meant that they learned more and did better than they would have in the classroom . |
| 21 | Muriel is a hard worker and does well when working on her own . |