Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had looked suspicious , I had done right to inform them , they said kindly , but the man had nothing on his person at all , and said he had been after rabbits . |
| 2 | All those rules got forgotten , notably by Mr Lawson , who had done most to introduce them . |
| 3 | It takes considerable practice to perfect and if done badly slows you down rather than speeding you up . |
| 4 | Many of those who voted against the government would not have done so had they expected an election . |
| 5 | Referees of DOE proposals usually remain anonymous , and Jones could have done so had he wished . |
| 6 | ‘ I did so after you left , and would have done so had you stayed . ’ |
| 7 | She had consented to intercourse with him and would not have done so had she known of the disease , yet her consent was not vitiated by his omission to tell her of his bodily condition . |
| 8 | The fact that I had not done so put me too high for the first available field , but with insufficient height for the next one . |
| 9 | The allegation was that she did not do enough to help her , and over a period of time this had made the carer extremely angry , and at the same time made their mother dissatisfied about the care she was receiving . |
| 10 | Great news , you might think , for Aunt Agatha , who had begun to fear that , instead of taking young Billy Whizzquid 's advice and putting her savings under the professional management of a unit trust , she would have done better to put them under her mattress . |
| 11 | Charles Gorham , the deaf founder-secretary and editor of The Deaf and Dumb Times , within days of the foundation of the BDDA , registered his personal dissent in the issue of August 1890 : The Congress , in deciding that the title should be " The British Deaf and Dumb Association " , would have done better had they omitted the objectionable word " dumb " , which is really unnecessary and has proved very misleading to the public . |
| 12 | ‘ You 'd have done better to leave him alone . ’ |
| 13 | And there is nothing I can do only to remember you in my prayers , which I do every Sunday , and wish you all the very best . |
| 14 | The competition now goes into winter hibernation , but when Rangers travel to play the Belgian champions in March they will do so believing they really can reach the final . |
| 15 | Anyone wanting these Mozart quartets will do better to acquire them , along with their ten far finer successors of 1782–90 , satisfyingly played by the Quartetto Italiano in the Philips Complete Edition ( CD 422 512–2PME8 , 8/91 — eight mid-price discs ) . |
| 16 | You 'd do better teaching them how to cook . |
| 17 | You 've done more to help me than I ever deserved . |
| 18 | Moreover , Le Pen 's party , despite a professed desire to rejuvenate French politics , has done more to make it absurd than any other , quite apart from the base populist ideas which it propagates . |
| 19 | Do you think though , perhaps you could have done more to keep them in the Party ? |
| 20 | More involved vividly so , so again I think this punctuation is done deliberately to make it merge continuously |
| 21 | Constant change was worse still ; in the words of one satirist , the scandal of the player was not so much that he disguised his real self in playing ; rather he had no self apart from that which he was playing : ‘ The Statute hath done wisely to acknowledge him a Rogue and errant , tor his chiefe essence is , A daily Counterfeit … |
| 22 | So what could be done both to protect us from crime and to make us less fearful ? |
| 23 | Right can we get your teeth done now do you think ? |
| 24 | ‘ You 're a mere salesman , Maurin , nothing better than that and you 'd do well to remember it . |
| 25 | For all her university degrees Kate was in the kindergarten class when it came to managing and understanding men , and she 'd do well to remember it . |
| 26 | The arguments of the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury carry much weight and the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East would do well to give them slightly more attention . |
| 27 | Clinton would do well to support them . |
| 28 | You would do well to beware them . |
| 29 | It is so much nonsense , and the Labour Party and its leaders would do well to admit it . |
| 30 | With The Frank & Walters ' debut LP ( ‘ Trains , Boats And Planes ’ ) already captivating the UK public , Mr Anonymous Music Shop Employee would do well to show them more respect . |