Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're continuously working round and taking people off doing what they ought to do simply to move things around and you , you 've talked of that . |
| 2 | He did eventually change things , but by then it was too late . |
| 3 | ‘ I did not want things that Picasso gave Douglas and me coming on the market , and Billy very decently gave me the drawing ’ . |
| 4 | He did not want things to go wrong at this stage . |
| 5 | The latest technical innovation , the deaf-aid transmitter , did not make things any easier . |
| 6 | We did not think things would be as bad . ’ |
| 7 | Jim Oulton , GMB branch secretary , said : ‘ We knew the company was in difficulty but we did not think things were this bad or the cuts would be of this magnitude . ’ |
| 8 | Yet the Junkers did not have things all their own way . |
| 9 | Even though the Germans were demoralised by the end of the war and by the Versailles arrangements for peace , the Poles did not have things all their own way in setting the new borders . |
| 10 | ‘ I hope I did not spoil things for you . ’ |
| 11 | And perhaps , she decided , being realistic , as long as she did not let things go too far it would do her no harm to stop trying to resist them and simply go with the flow of her feelings for a while . |
| 12 | The Poles did not see things this way . |
| 13 | Local authorities did not see things that way . |
| 14 | Allow this clause to go through unamended and there is a serious danger that a future Home Secretary 's friends on a police authority could indicate that if a chief officer did not see things the way they did and that of the government of the day his contract might not be renewed . |
| 15 | And in the 1950s people did not buy things they could not afford — credit and debt were shameful things to be avoided . |
| 16 | The AFPFL did not get things all their way : they had to accept six seats on the new Council ( no better than Dorman-Smith had offered the previous year ) . |
| 17 | We certainly do not smell things in the way they do . |
| 18 | EVERYONE is entitled to their opinion , and while I agree with Joe Hyam 's concerning service charges ( Caterer , 15–21 August ) , I feel he is taking unfair advantage of his position to have a go at people who do not do things the ‘ Joe Hyam ’ way . |
| 19 | We do not have a mind which is formed like theirs , we do not experience things in the way they do . |
| 20 | You do not shirk things , was a first principle , you face up to them . |
| 21 | The Zande do not expect things to work unless they are properly made . |
| 22 | Senior managers do not want things to go wrong , and will not take what they consider to be unnecessary risks in recommending one supplier as opposed to another . |
| 23 | ‘ Do not lift things , Miss Thorne — no heavy lifting . |
| 24 | If logic and reason can interpret the information sent in by the senses and produce a conclusion that would change as the information changes , it is emotion that clouds our vision and leads to a state in which we do not see things as they are . |
| 25 | Has very firm views of her own on most subjects , and she can be impatient with people who do not see things her way . |
| 26 | They usually do not let things get to them . ’ |
| 27 | For him , definitions are not ‘ real ’ , they do not define things ; they are nominal and define words . |
| 28 | She was long-legged and rather awkward and did n't do things quickly even when she got started ! |
| 29 | You see they did n't do things then that they would have done today , you see , seven years and you see I at that time , well I used to used to have a day off and instead of having a half day a week we used to have full day a fortnight and so of course on my day off I came home to see what I can do to help , you see and er my mother died . |
| 30 | The Richardsons were n't sophisticated , did n't leave things to imagination . |