Example sentences of "[pron] do [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir , when I do present to each training do you think that 's |
| 2 | I do apologise for this noise . |
| 3 | And I do plead with this Committee to erm , let this go forward because it does mean that we will get our community centre up and running erm , in the spring with the assistance of this Committee . |
| 4 | ‘ Whenever I do play with any kind of distortion , if I go and sit in with somebody , I find it 's so easy . |
| 5 | But I say I believe in in one respect alright , she 's got the car she can whip in and out but I do believe in another respect she 's got to the point where she ca n't be bothered ! |
| 6 | Now , I know colleagues some would like to stay till Sunday , or maybe even Monday next week , but we 're not in that situation , so I again , I do appeal to all colleagues , all colleagues , you know , to assist in formally seconding , and to thank those that have done it so far . |
| 7 | I did dream about some kittens the other night , there was |
| 8 | There was a deal of euphoria after the first night , the success of the missions , a certain element of surprise , but I did say at that time that we 'd be foolish to lower our guard , because erm there was still a lot of work to do , and that is exactly what it 's turning out to be , and we 're going for his military installations , and he 's got a lot of them , and it 's a wearing down process . |
| 9 | I did deal with that matter er originally and I believe that the the state , the er answer to the question was available precisely at three thirty today . |
| 10 | I did touch on this problem a good many years ago in an essay I wrote on the death of a great music-hall artist , Marie Lloyd . |
| 11 | I did hear of some people who had trouble getting tickets and that there was a delay in receiving them — some apparently not arriving until the week or even the day before the start but that is the sort of thing which can be learnt from and things will improve on future all-ticket matches . |
| 12 | Yes I did i well I did hear of several things to stop having them but over the first actually . |
| 13 | ‘ No , I can honestly say that the facts are correct : I am thirty-two , I did live for many years in Scotland , and yes , I do head one of the largest investment corporations in the country . ’ |
| 14 | I did notice with some interest that particular survey . |
| 15 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 16 | Poverty among older women in Britain has endured to the present day , despite the significant political commitment given to pensions in the 1970s , which culminated in the legislation in 1975 introducing the state earnings-related pension ( SERP ) scheme and in the series of pledges to uprate pensions in line with earnings or prices whichever was the greater ( Walker , 1985a ) , policies which did result in some improvement in the relative position of older people in the national income distribution ( see below ) . |
| 17 | To be sure , bitterness which did exist in some quarters between Protestants and Catholics both then and now has not affected Jews , thankfully . |
| 18 | However , there is one sharply defined grammatical prediction which does follow from this proposal : An adjective which does not share a referential locus with its head noun should be unacceptable in postnominal position , since assignment specifically applies the property of the adjective to the subject . |
| 19 | There is thus little duplication of Mr Williamson 's earlier Knights of the Iron Cross , and the entries for the 14 men who do appear in both volumes have been subsequently expanded . |
| 20 | It seems to me the only people who do persist in that phase and make something tenable out of an unsatisfied , unsettled life , are rock musicians , and rock critics . |
| 21 | If you did get in any trouble there was this man , Joe , and he was a really big hard man , he was a black-belt in karate and everything , and he really did mentally and physically terrify the girls . |
| 22 | Yeah but you did say on that base oh well you pay tax but obviously you must do as well then |
| 23 | ‘ You do sleep at some time , I presume ? ’ she asked rhetorically . |
| 24 | Even if you do run inside these times make sure you choose racers appropriate for the distance and your weight . |
| 25 | So if you do happen across any documents relating to her … ’ |
| 26 | It 's forty one more in your book and loans , than she does according to that book . |
| 27 | So she does believe in this picture of herself in a murder scene . |
| 28 | Unlike Descartes , who felt the need to prove their existence , and Malebranche , who was certain he could not , Locke simply had no doubt that material things existed and caused our ideas : ‘ The actual receiving of ideas from without … makes us know , that something doth exist at that time without us , which causes that idea in us . ’ |
| 29 | We did think about this point last night . |
| 30 | I , I , maybe before we start that , on the point of reductions , and I 'll ask both er , George and , and er , Jean and Mike to , to speak for the different political groups , as part of the P A G , erm , when we did go through this process , I , I mean it was very difficult for us as a P A G. |