Example sentences of "do [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And maybe she could do them just as well in America . |
| 2 | It would do them ever so much good . |
| 3 | Now if you can do them then just put the answer down . |
| 4 | I do n't even do them very well . ’ |
| 5 | That 'll do me very well fer the time bein' , thanks ! ’ |
| 6 | Needs a bit of cleaning up , but it 'll do me all right . ’ |
| 7 | I can do nothing here now . |
| 8 | Speed had done nothing else right the whole game with his overall game looking jaded . |
| 9 | I do think there are problems and difficulties , I do n't think it will be easy , not least because we do n't have a shared morality and a shared consensus , on the objectives for the voluntary sector , but it is a set of concerns which we must address , er , and I believe that if , if I 've done nothing else today , I 've kicked off a debate , or I 've contributed to a debate which was already rolling , erm , and that we must address those difficulties , and try and find ways through them , because there are opportunities as well as threats in the current situation and I believe we have to look at all of those er , so that we can move into the nineteen nineties which I believe will be a very exciting period for the voluntary sector , and one which the voluntary sector should er , see as exciting , grab the opportunities and move forward . |
| 10 | But if you 've done nothing wrong then you 've got nothing to worry about — ’ although Bodo rather spoiled this optimistic remark by adding , ‘ I hope . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Right , sir , ’ Doone said , as I stood up out of the car , ‘ we 've done nothing here so far . |
| 12 | done nothing today again , as usual |
| 13 | I 've done them now then . |
| 14 | ‘ What surprised the crew was that Michael led the insistence on the part of the actors to record both plays again , having done them extremely well but feeling they could be done better . |
| 15 | He had not helped his cause when he ‘ trotted blithely down the steps to greet eager reporters with the news ‘ Its all off boys ’ ’ and added , to cries of ‘ Jimmy 's selling you ’ the ripost that ‘ I 've tried boys , I 've done my very best . |
| 16 | And please remember whatever I do and whatever becomes of me , I shall always do my very best to help you . |
| 17 | I shall do my very best for him and , if anything you say is true , getting away to a different atmosphere with other boys will be the answer . |
| 18 | ‘ I want to thank you for this opportunity and tell you I will do my very best for you . ’ |
| 19 | " But I 'll do my very best , " I added hastily . |
| 20 | I 'll certainly do my very best to look after them . ’ |
| 21 | we can not accept that there can be a breach of the peace unless there has been an act done or threatened to be done which either actually harms a person , or in his presence his property , or is likely to cause such harm , or which puts someone in fear of such harm being done . |
| 22 | ‘ even in these days when affrays , riotous behaviour and other disturbances happen ill too frequently , we can not accept that there can be a breach of the peace unless there has been an act done or threatened to be done which either actually harms a person , or in his presence his property , or is likely to cause such harm , or which puts someone in fear of such harm being done . ’ |
| 23 | Especially when Charity and her mother had done their very best to help with a problem that need not have concerned them at all . |
| 24 | " … were all hoping that this would not be a continuing situation , Steve , " Mr Smith said , droning nasally from behind the chip-board desk in his low-ceilinged office on the depot 's first floor , " and that you would be able to consolidate your position here by forming a positive working relationship with the remainder of the road gang , who , in all fairness , I 'm sure you 'd be the first to agree , have done their very best to well … " |
| 25 | They were having a mission at the time and the preacher told Mother that it would have done her far more good to go to chapel than knit a quilt . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've done you once already , ’ he muses . |
| 27 | ‘ The old mare here should do you all right . ’ |
| 28 | Television programmes or books that make you laugh will do you far more good . |
| 29 | That was the interesting thing that said to Alistaire last night that a three column centimetres depending on which periodical it is or paper it 's in can do you far more good or damage than twenty at another . |
| 30 | But consuming rhino horn will do you about as much good as chewing your finger nails ; however , trying to tell that to the people who consume rhino horn is like trying to tell Ian Botham to lose weight . |