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 | And please remember whatever I do and whatever becomes of me , I shall always do my very best to help you . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | ‘ I want to thank you for this opportunity and tell you I will do my very best for you . ’ |
11 | " But I 'll do my very best , " I added hastily . |
12 | I 'll certainly do my very best to look after them . ’ |
13 | ‘ The old mare here should do you all right . ’ |
14 | Television programmes or books that make you laugh will do you far more good . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | But credit to everybody concerned with the team , they 've dug in , dug their heels in , come back well , scored a goal and if they 're confident now in themselves and go out there with that belief they can really do something here tonight . |
18 | ‘ But you 're right , Ben , we 'd best do something straight away . |
19 | But the rise in the rate of interest will do something else too : it will depress investment expenditure and thereby cause a fall in aggregate demand . |
20 | I think I 'd do something else musically . |
21 | I was a bit worried that the jolt it delivers would do something rather more permanent than give Mr Heron a deterrent shock , but apparently not . |
22 | ‘ Then let us do something nice together . ’ |
23 | Well maybe it would be good if these children took on board that they can do something right now . |
24 | Hakim said he never knew what it was going to be used for next ; on an organisation chart he left a column for Africa , since North had hinted that he might one day do something there too . |
25 | ‘ I realised that if I did n't do something really quickly perhaps I would n't be able to . |
26 | Kelly laughed again , but for one moment I was afraid she 'd do something awful like ask if Lucy was pretty , or something . |
27 | Love wo n't change the history of the world ( that nonsense about Cleopatra 's nose is strictly for sentimentalists ) , but it will do something much more important : teach us to stand up to history , to ignore its chin-out strut . |
28 | certainly knocking on strangers doors , and er demanding Almost demanding money erm or they 'll do something perhaps quite unpleasant to someone . |
29 | ‘ If we do n't do something extremely soon , ’ said Caspar , who was watching the giants furtively , ‘ they 'll be heating up the squares any minute . ’ |
30 | ‘ If you can do something as well as that , you must be able to convey — a little bit — ’ |