Example sentences of "they do [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These arguments apply just as much where there is a non-cumulative several liability , not annexed to a joint liability , as they do where it is so annexed . |
| 2 | In short , things had gone much as they do when the counties canter out against the varsities these days . |
| 3 | Large quantities of gas may be involved in the eruption of basaltic lavas ; when the lava is below ground , the gas is kept in solution in the molten rock , when the pressure on the lava is reduced the gases come out of solution and bubbles form , just as they do when a bottle of champagne is opened . |
| 4 | A big bream is a very deep-bodied fish and would have to stand almost tail to surface to pick a bait direct from the bottom with its lips , which I know they do when they are in that kind of mood . |
| 5 | All they do when they 're at sea is take down the messages we send to them , so do n't worry about not picking up a signal , 'cause nobody 'll be sending you any . ’ |
| 6 | STAR STYLES : Girls fell for fashionable Phillip ( above ) yesterday , just as they do when he 's stripped to play Joseph ( left ) . |
| 7 | It 's not how many people come to the first night of your tour in Windsor , it 's what they do when they get there . |
| 8 | He maintains that group members will soon accept the non-criminal character of this new member of their group , and they will behave as they do when he is not among them ( Polsky 1967 ) . |
| 9 | With charming naivety , they do not imagine that they themselves are the source of it : they behave as they do when they see a frightened horse , becoming agitated and desirous of flight . |
| 10 | Exactly what they do when at last they reach the sea was unknown until quite recently . |
| 11 | Nephrite pebbles show up by their colour and translucency much more clearly when viewed through flowing water than they do when dry . |
| 12 | The sun 's rays have to travel through more of the Earth 's absorbent atmosphere to reach these areas than they do when the sun is overhead , resulting in a drop in temperature as winter approaches . |
| 13 | When learners watch video programmes in the target language , they are exercising their listening skills as they do when they listen to an audiotape . |
| 14 | And , of course , they — the tumbril was standing in the cart-shed there with the back-chains hanging , d'ye see , fixed on each shaf , just like they do when they go on a horse . |
| 15 | Will they know more about that than they do when they simply carry out what the curriculum requires of them regardless of how it is supported , budgeted for and described to parents by the governors ? |
| 16 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |
| 17 | Although there can never be any guarantees , it is frequently the case that older children enjoy working with younger ones , enjoy the responsibility they are being given , and behave much better than they do when they are working on their own . |
| 18 | They do however still have a lower boundary at zero , and the whole distribution is very lop-sided ; outcomes with probabilities less than evens are squashed into the number range 0 to 1 , whereas probabilities above evens can range from 1 to infinity . |
| 19 | They do however perhaps highlight the problems associated with nomination , and direct the surveyor 's mind to consider whether nomination is really necessary . |