Example sentences of "not do [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do not do me justice , my dallta , for what you do reflects on me also , and they laugh at me with you because you let a wee Campbell lassie put a petticoat on you ! ’ |
| 2 | The aforesaid captain I shall endeavour to keep beside me as my bondsman ; hobbled , and under my eye , he can not do me injury . |
| 3 | The greatest unfairness , she thought , was that the women who could afford to buy the beautiful clothes simply did not do them justice , while she , who showed them off so well , had to save for weeks , even given her staff discount , for the most modestly priced item . |
| 4 | If one end of the comb is higher than the other , it can not do its job of pulling down evenly on the stitches . |
| 5 | But this kind of rationalism largely yielded to empiricism with the rise of the Logical Positivists and it is therefore disconcerting to find that experience can not do its job . |
| 6 | In order to guarantee the Council 's legal responsibilities ; to preserve the public 's access to information ; and to preserve the clear channels of communication and a smooth exchange of information without which it can not do its business , local authorities need to give very close attention to who is responsible for the electronic information bases of the departments that are going through the process of white-collar CCT . |
| 7 | ‘ I changed things around because I was convinced the same 11 players could not do themselves justice over the next three weeks . ’ |
| 8 | She had experienced mounting terror at the thought of a new role in which she would certainly prove a failure — a woman who could not do her work , could not save her father , could not love her mother , could not satisfy her man , was most unlikely to make any sort of mother . |
| 9 | Joan did not do her homework . |
| 10 | If the house was above the road , it came from it , and cross 'd the way to run to another ; if the house was below us , it cross 'd us from some other distant house above it , and at every considerable house was a manufactory or work-house , and as they could not do their business without water , the little streams were so parted and guided by gutters and pipes , and by turning and dividing the streams , that none of those houses were without a river , if I may call it so , running into and through their work-houses . |
| 11 | He does not believe that Britain lacks for entrepreneurs , but he is concerned that many of them do not do their homework well enough . |
| 12 | He is the kindest , nicest man , but he is very intolerant of people who do not do their homework . ’ |
| 13 | For example , if you have already made available literature dealing with questions such as holidays/pensions/conditions of work and the candidate chooses to ask about them it may well indicate that she/he is the sort of person who does not do their background work thoroughly . |
| 14 | Joseph Ford , frightened because he was about to fight his first real battle , worried that either he or his men might not do their duty and , as ever when worry overwhelmed him , he snatched off his spectacles and polished their lenses on his sash . |
| 15 | Arthur Young in 1795 , pointing out in a year of extreme hunger that it was against the law to starve in England , included in his argument : " Parish officers are bound to provide … and if they do not do their duty , there is an appeal to the justice , who will force them to its performance . " |
| 16 | And I feel that many solicitors do not do their job they do not explain fully to the purchaser what they are taking on . |
| 17 | A survey last year showed that a frightening proportion of child car seats would not do their job properly as they had n't been fitted correctly . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) Teachers should appreciate that the staff can not do their research for them , and should be prepared to help themselves , though they will usually find the staff to be extremely helpful . |
| 19 | If you come to the examination with a brain that is befogged by lack of sleep and gallons of black coffee , you will not do yourself justice . |
| 20 | It does not do him justice to say he is on their side , but he leaves us in no doubt about the horror of what Jacob and Rebekah have done . |
| 21 | The colour photos I have seen of this fish just do not do him justice . |
| 22 | He did not do himself justice in 1991 , never getting his timing right in his early-season preparations any more than he did on the golf course . |
| 23 | If there is any one awareness common to the great modern writers , it is that language will not do our bidding , that good or bad intentions do not so much pave roads , as poke up odd coloured weeds through the roadway . |
| 24 | There are situations , however , where information will not do our thinking for us . |
| 25 | ‘ You know that you can not do my hand , ’ says Isabelle , ‘ they will see it at work . |
| 26 | Any man who did not do his work could be reported to the police and might go to gaol for a week or so . |
| 27 | It is argued the critic resembles the dentist ; he can not do his work without hurting . |
| 28 | But it would not do you justice , or me justice , to say it was just that . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Saegusa 's first instinct was to refuse ; he thought he could not do it justice . |
| 30 | The spiritual care of the bereaved demands a book all on its own and we can not do it justice here since we have been more concerned with the human experiences that people undergo . |