Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , most of the early studies on owl digestion have been carried out on species that do little damage to the bones of their prey . |
| 2 | The distal humerus and proximal tibia and femur are preferentially preserved in the predator assemblages where the greatest breakage overall occurs , while the species that do little damage to the bone cluster near the origin . |
| 3 | Social scientists seem to confuse the two , and because they oppose religion and are unbelievers , they do little work on religion in human societies . |
| 4 | Double-handed weapons , such as used by the Greatswords , are brilliant for dealing death but do rather suffer from having to go last in the close combat . |
| 5 | We do rather think of ourselves in this area as ‘ Medaus out in the sticks ’ , being a long way from the hub , so to speak . |
| 6 | I hate to say this but I do rather think from the bruising that someone did it to him . ’ |
| 7 | I do rather object to the sort of chap who farts in public and then says ‘ Better out than in . ’ ’ |
| 8 | She sweetly punctuated every pause with ‘ Actually , we have had quite a few calls saying the same thing , ’ and ‘ Actually , I must say , I do rather agree with you . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I do rather wonder about that , ’ drawled Lexandro . |
| 10 | In the crudest sense , there are indeed ‘ young old ’ and ‘ old old ’ ; and although you can be either younger or older at any age , physical and mental disabilities do slowly cumulate on average with increasing years . |
| 11 | In contrast to some other low-income countries in Africa , most children do eventually get to primary school and stay there for a few years . |
| 12 | ‘ people do all sods of things . |
| 13 | If you do much watering by can a long way from a tap , get a matching pair , each holding 2 gallons . |
| 14 | Do much damage to yours ? |
| 15 | I ca n't say I do much sailing in London . ’ |
| 16 | So do you , as a social worker , have much erm do much work with D H S S ? |
| 17 | The powers do perhaps get into the habit of erm of erm of meeting together . |
| 18 | ‘ You do enough mumbling to yourself at the back of the shop when the child 's around , but when it comes to something constructive … ’ |
| 19 | Species that reduce CO 2 with H 2 do so according to the following equation : |
| 20 | I do so sympathise with her . |
| 21 | I do so want to be pure in body and mind . |
| 22 | ‘ You do so based on your own plans , at a time of maximum opportunity and advantage . |
| 23 | Men do so long for someone to be in charge . |
| 24 | Edward , on the other hand , had always been accorded a mysterious potency : ‘ They do so depend on him at Croxford . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I do so agree with you , ’ said Lydia , relieved . |
| 26 | What I do so like about Valerie is how relaxed she is ! |
| 27 | He 's at us all the time , but boys of that age do so like to be morally superior , do n't they ? ’ |
| 28 | They kill a very high percentage of their catch immediately , fewer rabbits escape from them and , while killing the rabbit , they do less damage to it . |
| 29 | Not only is there a lack of research evidence to support this view , but it has been argued that many children do better remaining in a single-parent family than in having to make further adjustments to a third form of family life — the step-family ( Richards and Dyson , 1982 ) . |
| 30 | The division of labour is the division of expertise which depends on the shared assumption that almost all work needs special skills , that we do better to concentrate on our own skills , leaving others to their own , and that this arrangement is functional for the community . |