Example sentences of "do [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | vii , ‘ One woe doth tread upon another 's heel ’ , DS 61 . |
| 3 | Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven ; |
| 4 | The poet 's eyes ( according to Shakespeare 's Theseus ) " in a fine frenzy rolling , doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven " . |
| 5 | That rarity , an album without a filler — admire every aspect as Owens finger-flicks his way through the Stax-happy , gospel croons on a couple of things Sam Cooke would have loved to wrap his larynx around , and opts for the more brooding approach on the let's do crunch of ‘ Why You Treat Me This Way ? ’ — ‘ Blues Soul ’ is remarkable not only for the performance of its outfront star , but also for that of the Pete Wingfield-led back-up squad , which nary places a quaver in the wrong place , along with Mike Vernon 's knowing production . |
| 6 | you can then make it do work for you ? |
| 7 | What will he do look for another or |
| 8 | I was gon na do look in that did you say you looked in that Argos book for darts did you , or ? |
| 9 | So we well this week on Tuesday we 're erm going swim and spa and Rosemary and Anne and all them er Maggie they 're , they are all there so this is what we 're gon na do try for this week and see what it 's like , you know go through all the system there . |
| 10 | Erm because that 's also what we do n't do hide behind reject letters . |
| 11 | You know what she 's gon na do go to school and put them down ! |
| 12 | what do you wan na do go to places like you know the alternative , do you wan na be er inside journalist or an outside one ? |
| 13 | We I think you know we can do go into just four four people . |
| 14 | you know , but I 'm there on my own I can pot do my hair , do what I wan na do go up the stairs , have a bath , you know , just do what I , drop my clothes where I wan na drop them and everything . |
| 15 | In many societies , the clothing , ornaments and tools belonging to an individual may be considered so integral to him or her that to touch or do harm to these inanimate objects is considered indistinguishable from taking the same action against the person . |
| 16 | Granted that one is clear about that , the fact that relevant statements of what human beings can and can not do come in various strengths is not so important . |
| 17 | Mother W is a witch … well , Mother W doth begin to be very odious and terrible unto many , her neighbours dare say nothing but yet in their hearts wish she were hanged . |
| 18 | March wind doth blow for some time to come , according to the coastguard , and believe me it blows hellish hard round Gullholm . ’ |
| 19 | They risk leaving him there and him going on to do damage to personal property . |
| 20 | Alex teaches Peter Grant how to do look like Holly ( or is it Eric Morecombe ) |
| 21 | ( It was later to do work for the Independent . ) |
| 22 | what did you want to do go in a central caravan or what ? |
| 23 | Like one that on a lonesome road doth walk in fear and dread , Tasha sang on her Ancient Mariner Mambo album , and having once turned round walks on , and turns no more his head ; because he knows a frightful fiend doth close behind him tread . |
| 24 | But if to an alehouse they customers be , Then presently with the ale wife we agree ; When we come to a reckoning , then we do crave Twopence on a shilling , and that we will have , By such cunning ways we our treasure do get , For it is all fish that doth come to our net . |
| 25 | Let me go through it again , I , I did rush through it . |
| 26 | Can we just spare a couple of minutes so we can get this straight , because I did rush through it , and it was , er , obviously wrong of me . |
| 27 | I love what I 'm doing for Revlon but there are two things that I do think about , one is becoming an actress and the other is going to university to study art history . |
| 28 | ‘ I do think about it quite a lot , actually . |
| 29 | We are very prone to pontificate about what teachers should think about but we do not really know what they do think about : we formulate issues on their behalf . |
| 30 | When drafting your notes , do think about whether you have provided the report recipients with what they want to read or what they want to consider . |