Example sentences of "do [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the last twenty years there have been times when he would have done better to return to investment in land . |
| 7 | The Faulks Committee would have done better to concentrate on methods for speeding up libel hearings . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 — ‘ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Cureton would surely do better to rely on syntax to determine rhythmic grouping at this level . |
| 13 | ‘ In that case , would n't you do better to apply to another wharf ? ’ |
| 14 | Managers would do better to think of just two kinds of business strategy — competitive and corporate . |
| 15 | The reformers would do better to look at the health-care regimes they oversee . |
| 16 | People , they said , would do better to stay at home and contemplate the teachings of the Koran . |
| 17 | ‘ They would do best to concentrate on technical software , rather than applications where you have to be in close touch with your customers , ’ he said . |
| 18 | He fished the cubes out and put them into an ashtray and found it all he could do not to weep at the mess they made with the ash . |
| 19 | We will do more to bring into use properties owned by central and local government which are standing empty for no good reason . |
| 20 | So you seem to cut yourself off from anything you 've done before to concentrate on what |
| 21 | I should like to learn what , if anything , I can do here to enrol for any suitable course to get me into the business world or administration as I do not want to wait till I return to the UK , on leave , in mid-June till I begin finding out more about your courses . |
| 22 | Lord Wakeham , who had come with the necessary cheque , had muttered something about boys being boys , and that Robertson would do well to go to his hotel and sleep it off . |
| 23 | And I think governments would do well to talk to the people at the sharp end , like magistrates , who use this system , work the system , liaise with all the various components in the system and do know what they 're talking about . |
| 24 | The thorough and accomplished virtuoso , the reasonable and methodical teacher , the learned musician — these characteristics … are all here revealed in one … for many of those , too , who profess the violin will here find instruction , and will do well to profit by this great master 's teaching , so as no longer to spoil their pupils with bad precepts . |
| 25 | O'Connor beat Fred Couples in the Dunhill Cup and was third in the Volvo Masters on Sunday , but they will do well to finish among the top three . |
| 26 | The New Zealand and South African eights will do well to live with his mighty Wallaby pack in the weeks to come … |
| 27 | Any potential descent party would do well to dwell on this statistic and their own evaluation of the falls rather than Paul and myself . |
| 28 | So if you are a composer hoping to get into supplying music for the AV industry , this is an off-the-shelf service that you will do well to reckon with . |
| 29 | That society became a more egalitarian , caring and humane society , and the present generation would do well to reflect on this . |
| 30 | Mr McRoberts , instead of criticising Mr Ridley , would do well to reflect on the House of Commons Energy Committee 's judgment on nuclear power : ‘ It will never again be possible to take assurances as to the viability of any type of nuclear power on trust . ’ |