Example sentences of "do [adv] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us also celebrate and exploit the opportunities that have been created by new media , and ensure that bookshops are seen as the distribution channel of choice , and that we do all we can to make the book the natural bedfellow of these emerging products . |
| 2 | They are an important part of our twin-track approach so that we not only come down hard on offenders who commit the crime of taking vehicles , but we do all we can to prevent youngsters from offending . |
| 3 | But do n't we also know , if only in our dreams , that even as we do so we will one day just as surely tall down it ? |
| 4 | And if we do so we might call ourselves a nomadic and pastoral people of the transcendent ; and we shall be able to pasture our thoughts like the flocks of the nomads . |
| 5 | As they do so we tend to know fewer of the people we see in them . |
| 6 | We move on now to aspects of teaching of more particular concern to the language teacher , but as we do so we should not lose sight of the more general educational context . |
| 7 | After spending some time there ( as if we were actually present ) we will gradually come back to the present day , and as we do so we will become more reflective and try and push the present away from us — making it strange — by maintaining a certain distance from our immediate history . |
| 8 | If we do so we may deny our pain , it would be to pretend that all is well , and that would mean to deny the biblical faith . |
| 9 | ( Do not we see this in Lewis 's The Lion , the Witch , and the Wardrobe ? |
| 10 | Do not we owe it to all our children , right across the country and irrespective of their primary schools , to identify their needs , strengths and weaknesses at an early age ? |
| 11 | Why do not we set an example in Scotland , as we did for the poll tax ? |
| 12 | The N Y C C in their assessment do not we believe have taken into account the severe environmental damage which any western relief road would impose on the landscape . |
| 13 | And what we do with the eyebrows , we do n't just use a pair of tweezers we actually use wax , so if you 've got quite a lot of hair underneath your brow , we never take from above the brow , just below , if you 've got quite a lot of hair , it can be painful if you 're just using tweezers , so what we do now we use a little bit of hot wax , which is pink , so we put some wax under the brow , either side , let the wax erm , cool and set , and then pull the wax off . |
| 14 | ‘ — well anyway , I remembered the last time she was here this Mrs Heatherington-Scott made a set at Sir Harry Destry , like Thomas said , and — well , we all know what happened that time , do n't we ? |
| 15 | Why do n't we go and sit down for a few minutes and then you can decide what you want to do next ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Why do n't we go over to Richard and Jane 's one evening ? |
| 17 | Do n't we have in him a formalist , in fact an aesthete ? |
| 18 | You may ask me then : ‘ Why do n't we do just that ? why has there been this passionate search for some other method of preventing the fall in the value of money or controlling the fall in the value of money , if a cause and perhaps the major cause is undisputed , assessable and obvious ? ’ |
| 19 | But do n't we also know , if only in our dreams , that even as we do so we will one day just as surely tall down it ? |
| 20 | Why do n't we just go away for the day ? ’ |
| 21 | I mean , we all want to love him , do n't we ? |
| 22 | And the sailor said , ’ Have it your own way but if we do n't we 'll never have kids . ’ |
| 23 | I like presents and all that , but — I du n no — if it 's Jesus 's birthday then why do n't we give him prezzies ? |
| 24 | ‘ But of course we know something about it , do n't we ? ’ |
| 25 | Do n't we have a kinship with the Americans , the ‘ Transatlantic branch ’ of our race ? |
| 26 | The unwanted jongleurs even proffer tourist information : apparently if we disembark at Oxford Street we 'll be in one of the finest shopping centres in the world , so why do n't we ‘ all fuck off there and buy yer wives a mink ? |
| 27 | ‘ Well , why do n't we chew on it a bit ? ’ asked the ageing Chairman . |
| 28 | ‘ Well … be a change I suppose … and we do get along very well , do n't we , Fred ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Why do n't we tidy up instead of yacketing on ? |
| 30 | Me and Lil , at least we know how to trough up good and proper , do n't we , Lil ? ’ |