Example sentences of "they do [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Like they do me at home ! |
2 | They do them though , with a wonderful spirit and grace and two of them present a kind of duet which evokes a spontaneous roar of applause . |
3 | ‘ They do them very well here . ’ |
4 | We would ask the reader to bear in mind from the outset , however , that we write from the viewpoint of the English urban sub-culture , in which we are not only fieldworkers and observers but life members ; nevertheless , we believe that the English and American complexes of parental experience show very many points of coincidence , both historically and contemporaneously , both in the things that parents do and in the reasons for which they do them : and that , therefore , a discussion in these terms will have a validity for parent-child behaviour on both sides of the Atlantic . |
5 | Yeah some things has , as I said we work off these er graph papers and they , they do them now by computer . |
6 | Discover what jobs people do , why and how they do them . |
7 | Altho the players marks were as expected … you cant take anything from these normally as I reckon they do them from match reports rather than from going to matches … the one thing they CANT lie about is the shots/corners scores … and here goes … |
8 | I do n't know if they do them on video of old age people |
9 | That 's how they do them , right ? |
10 | were , was n't those gloves , they , it , it was their thermolactal that they , they sell always cos they do them in black and grey |
11 | They do them , that 's where she gets them |
12 | I I do n't know if they do them in Woolworths . |
13 | Right , now , well they do n't do , but they do them at , now what do you want , do you want to have a look at the erm , green |
14 | Al , although some of them they do them in German |
15 | they do them seven eighths |
16 | They do them in packs of fifty but in |
17 | I 'm sure they do them , cos you can get them on the Christmas club ca n't you ? |
18 | And if they do we 'll see them coming miles away . ’ |
19 | So good luck to the firm determined to revive the Pakamac raincoat and if they do we 'll eat our grey plastic button-down hood . |
20 | If they do they have forgotten that , like them , every member of their audience ‘ has an inborn sense of measuring time ... |
21 | Academics can still write evaluative criticism of course , and in so far as they do they are producing the kind of criticism practised by men of letters . |
22 | If one stops for a piss the rest might catch up and if they do they will either fall straight over him so that you finish with a ball of dogs that will take forever to unwind , or they will take lumps out of him . |
23 | They certainly will not go out of their way to be critical — and if they do they are not worth knowing in the first place ! |
24 | ‘ They do n't often go wrong , but if they do they must be replaced . ’ |
25 | People can ‘ change their luck ’ , and can in a way say ‘ No ’ to divine Providence , though of course if they do they have to stand by the consequences of their decision . |
26 | What , what do they do they want . |
27 | Companies do not have to list their directors on their stationery , but if they do they must list the full name ( or the surname and initials of forenames ) of every individual and corporate director . |
28 | For voting as they do they have reasons sufficient in their eyes and not to be called in question . |
29 | Most of what local authorities do is in a sense not really party politically controversial because they 've got because most of the things they do they 've got to do , they 're mandated to do . |
30 | In fact timbers rarely survive to be discovered on archaeological sites , and when they do they are not always in good enough condition to be used for dating ; furthermore , if they were part of timber structures and had been shaped , not enough of the ring pattern may survive . |