Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Commons , Sir Thomas Clarges moved that " a standing Army is destructive to the Country " , whilst his fellow Tory , Edward Seymour , declared that " the safety of the Kingdom doth not consist with a standing force " , adding ( in a way which anticipated Tory arguments used after 1689 ) that " all the profit and security of this Nation is in our Ships , and had there been the least ship in the Channel " , Monmouth could never have landed . |
| 2 | That doth not smack of observation ; |
| 3 | All I 've done since seems to be walk around and knock on doors . |
| 4 | This targets them towards the most important part of the prey , where they can do most damage with their first contact . |
| 5 | Yet Burn 's Revesby shares with Soane 's Pelwall the distinction of being one of two houses Save and English Heritage have done most to save from demolition , and rightly so . |
| 6 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |
| 7 | For example , asked to draw accurately a triangle with all the sides 6 cm long , 52 per cent of the boys were judged to have done so compared with 30 per cent of the girls . |
| 8 | In France the Directive has not been implemented in order to further nature conservation — that it has done so results by default rather than by design . |
| 9 | In 1965 Anthony Crossland , the Labour Secretary of State for Education , issued Circular 10/65 which requested those local authorities which had not already done so to submit to him their proposals for the reorganisation of their secondary schools along comprehensive lines . |
| 10 | It required those LEAs who had not already done so to submit to the Secretaries of State , by the end of the year , information about their plans for making their schools comprehensive . |
| 11 | Some local authorities continued to engage outside contractors but others that had done so reverted to in-house provision . |
| 12 | However , Northern men are likely to agree that men do n't do enough to look after their children , and they support the idea of women with young children going out to work . |
| 13 | ‘ The boys at Langley do n't do much talking to us just at the moment . |
| 14 | They therefore adopt a deeply hostile stance towards intellectual developments of the last two hundred years such as Darwinism and Biblical Criticism , when they would have done better to engage with them and even turn them to their advantage . |
| 15 | In the last twenty years there have been times when he would have done better to return to investment in land . |
| 16 | The Faulks Committee would have done better to concentrate on methods for speeding up libel hearings . |
| 17 | And it was Charles who went on , ‘ Do n't you think you 've done enough traipsing around the world ? |
| 18 | Boats and ferries potter the local coves and islands if you have n't done enough pottering in our own craft . |
| 19 | Thus , when the police officer comes to make his decision he must do so knowing of the defendant 's preference and any reason the defendant may have given for it . |
| 20 | I think you might do better to live with him for a while , before you actually tie the nuptial knot with someone who may be borrowing your knickers for the next 60 years . |
| 21 | Those in Darlington would do better to collaborate with the council to ensure the scheme 's success rather than lining the pockets of the legal profession . |
| 22 | ‘ Doctor , while I can appreciate your academic enjoyment at finding an intellectual equal , I really think you might do better to devote at least some of your attention to the lesser mortals who have been caught up in — ‘ |
| 23 | God might have oversight over the destinies of nations , for example , in times of war ; but individuals would do better to rely on their own foresight , and on such pressure on the state as could be exerted by groups organised to sustain collective interests . |
| 24 | Cureton would surely do better to rely on syntax to determine rhythmic grouping at this level . |
| 25 | ‘ In that case , would n't you do better to apply to another wharf ? ’ |
| 26 | Managers would do better to think of just two kinds of business strategy — competitive and corporate . |
| 27 | The reformers would do better to look at the health-care regimes they oversee . |
| 28 | On both issues , he suggested , reality had long outstripped British rhetoric and Whitehall would do better bargaining on details than cold-shouldering the whole process . |
| 29 | People , they said , would do better to stay at home and contemplate the teachings of the Koran . |
| 30 | A lawful act which is performed carelessly does not automatically become an unlawful act for this purpose , even if a lawful act done carelessly amounts to an offence ( e.g. careless driving ) : Andrews v DPP , above . |