Example sentences of "do [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my climbing heyday we had to make do mostly with faith and a little friction . |
| 2 | Justice was done right on half-time … |
| 3 | The idea that meaningful research could be done successfully without experiment still leaves some chemists feeling insecure , although many chemists now realise how slow they were to embrace quantum mechanics as a tool . |
| 4 | They have done so as part of a widely comprehensive output , ranging from chamber music to symphonies and opera . |
| 5 | Attlee , had he won the 1935 election , would have taken exactly Baldwin 's line in substance , but at that stage in his career would have done so without assurance or persuasiveness . |
| 6 | It is not a crime to break a " D " notice — many newspapers have done so without prosecution . |
| 7 | One of the few women who had done so over time without the complement of sexual gratification . |
| 8 | I have been persuaded by the publishers to adopt the spellings on the latest maps of the Ordnance Survey and where these differ from those previously accepted have done so with reluctance , rebelling only in a few cases of change in long-familiar names . |
| 9 | If party rhetoric and television coverage ever set the public 's agenda , they should have done so on defence . |
| 10 | Over three-quarters of those who were retired when they were interviewed had done so before pension age . |
| 11 | That a person has done so in order to extract the monnaie . |
| 12 | Other occupations have adopted the professional rhetoric and even if they have done so in order to enhance their status and monopoly or guild power , they have had to accept the concomitant constraints on self-interested behaviour . |
| 13 | Bernard was at the least reckoning an ambitious yeoman , the kind we expect to find purchasing land , like the Chibnalls of Sherington , not selling — unless , of course , he had done so in order to finance the purchase of his lease , or to stock the new and very much bigger farm ; but this is pure speculation . |
| 14 | If a Shusui 's Doitsu scales are going to turn greyish black , rather than a sky blue , or if a Kumonryu is going to lose all its black and turn into a valueless Doitsu Shiromuji , it will have done so in adolescence . |
| 15 | An alternative view is that the parties to the Protocol have bestowed a benefit upon the treaty parties , which the latter must expressly or impliedly accept ( and presumably have done so in advance by ratifying the treaty ) . |
| 16 | If the House of Commons had done so in relation to the allegedly offending provision under review in Pickin 's case , would the provision nevertheless have remained valid ? |
| 17 | Of the convergence of homosexuality and race , fewer still are prepared to speak , and those who have spoken have oft en done so in racist and/or homophobic terms — and that , as Mercer and Julien show , includes people in both the black and gay communities . |
| 18 | He has already done so in respect of civil non-matrimonial legal aid and is considering the responses to that . |
| 19 | Dudley Morgan describes how the Group has done so by building on its DP experience and resources in other applications — particularly payroll — and by identifying the practical information needs of personnel management . |
| 20 | Even if somebody had picked it up , maybe they had done so by mistake . |
| 21 | If it were mine and I wanted to make serious use of the bass , I 'd probably take the E and A drones off , as one could argue that they do n't do enough on top of the heavier bass strings , which might be better used for playing ‘ proper ’ bass lines . |
| 22 | These tasks appear to be done better at night with a general decline throughout the daytime to lowest values in the early evening . |
| 23 | ‘ Everyone 's got fed up with that lame club PA vibe , they want to hear it done better on stage than on record again . |
| 24 | I think we 've done better with Mother . |
| 25 | Law had indeed already done enough as leader to make his departure unthinkable and so a memorial was drawn up by Carson and signed by almost all the party 's backbenchers , stating full confidence in Law and begging him to stay on with a revised tariff policy . |
| 26 | If you would prefer to renew your licence starting a new period , rather than have a duplicate or replacement showing the same period as the original licence , you may do so on payment of the full licence fee . |
| 27 | If I must vegetate , I 'd rather do so at home , in spite of the undoubtedly superior ménage here . |
| 28 | Notwithstanding that the transfer is not lodged for registration or registration is refused , the beneficial interest in the shares will , it seems , pass from the seller to the buyer at the latest at stage ( 2 ) and , indeed will do so at stage ( 1 ) if the agreement is one which the courts would order to be specifically enforced . |
| 29 | They observe , however , that it would on any view be a grave impediment to the freedom of the press if those who print , or a fortiori those who distribute , matter reflecting critically on the conduct of public authorities could only do so with impunity if they could first verify the accuracy of all statements of fact on which the criticism was based . |
| 30 | But anytime the brilliant 34-year-old Scudamore , eight-times champion jockey and the most successful jump rider in history , decides to leave the sport , he can do so with honour . |