Example sentences of "do [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a Legal Service Commission with executive powers could do the necessary research and co-ordination job . |
| 2 | But eventually I got it right , I had to — I could n't do the advanced course without the basic one under my belt . |
| 3 | In school we did n't really do the actual pie charts but we used compasses . |
| 4 | They do n't do the right things . |
| 5 | And so , when the manager gets to 60 or so and is given his carriage clock and company pension ( if he is lucky ) , there is somebody to take over who knows the right people and can do the right things . |
| 6 | What was unnatural has become natural , you do n't have to think about it , your body will do the right thing in the right way , like breathing . |
| 7 | ‘ We can do it if the leadership of this nation will just stand up and do the right thing . ’ |
| 8 | No doubt the good doctor will always do the right thing , but can what the right thing is be stipulated in advance or written down ? |
| 9 | Some parents worry that rewarding good behaviour is a type of bribery , and believe that a child should do the right thing as a matter of course , simply because it is right . |
| 10 | As adults we have active consciences which help us do the right thing . |
| 11 | I did do the right thing , did n't I ? ’ |
| 12 | Alejandro gets pissed off and shouts if you do n't do the right thing straight away . |
| 13 | As managers , we hope that they will do the right thing . |
| 14 | I 'm sure you 'll do The Right Thing . ’ |
| 15 | If ethics and the interests of the business conflict , managers and employees are invariably told that they must always do the right thing — for no other reason than that it is right . |
| 16 | As he prided himself on his fair and honest trading , and the high standards which he always maintained except in extenuating circumstances , the ginger-haired totter had decided he should do the right thing by her . |
| 17 | There are several reasons for this extension but the most important in the case of the declaration is that , being a non-coercive remedy ( which means that failure to comply with a declaration does not amount to a contempt of court ) , it is available against the Crown ; and it is very useful in other situations where the seeking of a coercive remedy might be thought unnecessarily aggressive , and where the plaintiff is confident that the defendant will do the right thing once a court says what it is . |
| 18 | So if y if you 're manoeuvring round him and he suddenly changes his mind we 're compounding what he is actually doing , by getting assuming that he 's gon na do the right thing . |
| 19 | We we were brought up to believe that if you did n't do the right thing you would be punished . |
| 20 | Can you do the Irish jig ? |
| 21 | Right did we actually do the susceptible babies ? |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll do the stupid letters tomorrow . |
| 23 | Maybe whoever buys the house will set her up again where she can see Narcissus — and much good did that ever do the poor girl . ’ |
| 24 | Her own mother contemplated such depravity with sorrow , convinced that it could do the poor creatures no good . |
| 25 | He is annoyed that the sun ca n't do the simple task of reviving this man who has already got his limbs , is fully nerved and is even still warm . |
| 26 | So we had this agreement I would al arrive in a removal van just as assembly finished to start the lessons in the morning and then my removal man would come back and pick me up again at twelve o'clock so that I could then do the two-man jobs . |
| 27 | ‘ But the soldiers will do the dangerous part , ’ he reassured himself , and looked anxiously over to where the Dragoons were concealed . |
| 28 | Because you imagine that Martin will do the gentlemanly thing and keep you out of it ? |
| 29 | Nevertheless , after his defeat , Mr Major , whose strengths as a Prime Minister would not best qualify him as a good leader of the opposition , would do the decent thing and step down , like Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1965 , agreeing to serve under whomever the party chose to succeed him . |
| 30 | Senior Tories doubt if anyone will do the decent thing for Patten . |