Example sentences of "[pers pn] do [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | My inheritance from those years is the belief maintained with some difficulty , that I do have a right to the earth . |
| 2 | We have er found that to be the case there is a downward trend , but I do make the point , and I did make the point to the inspectors notwithstanding that , all of our respecting officers bar those that were doing the training of course do produce a higher work output per individual than most of our peers up and down the country and we have statis statistical evidence to support that . |
| 3 | ‘ I did send a telegram to the caretaker to tell him to be here to let me in . |
| 4 | I declined an invitation to have him fill a tooth , because I felt that I should never be able to afford the fee ; but I did accept an offer to be shown by Vivien round Oxford ( or ‘ Hoxford ’ as Mrs Webster called it , with that superfluous Beds. and Bucks . |
| 5 | If and when you do have a reaction to individual food groups , you may feel that you have had a setback . |
| 6 | But you do have a right to be there and to be heard . |
| 7 | 11M is nt that much over 5 years at all … but then you do have the day to day running costs and ( eeek ) wages … |
| 8 | And she did give the key to Phyllis . |
| 9 | And she did have a responsibility to her students . |
| 10 | It is true we did increase the pupil to teacher ratio to one to thirteen in line with the F E er guidelines and that of course did provide some extra nursery places but last year we did put in real resources and actually increased the number of nursery places by about four hundred which involved the development of several new nursery classes , so it is completely untrue to say that the Conservatives attempted to increase nursery education on the cheap . |
| 11 | The er , other recommendation really is just a member 's note the outcome of discussion so far , it has been to the erm , we did take the paper to the Hare Street , Little Parndon er , committee er , in this cycle and there were no comments that came er , from that committee . |
| 12 | ‘ The service to the frontmen was n't good enough and when we did get the ball to them , we immediately gave it away , ’ he said . |
| 13 | But the t we did have a telephone to the post office when it first came . |
| 14 | We do owe a debt to be paid with grateful remembrance of the sacrifices you and your comrades made . |
| 15 | ‘ We do believe the information to be useful and we also believe it is a possibility that the man shown on the tape in Phil Wells . |
| 16 | I mean technically we do have an entitlement to visits in that Janet was was reminding me the other day that that we said , when Deborah was here , that everybody was entitled to four visits a year . |
| 17 | ‘ The Labour Party were prepared to try , with their very benevolent intentions , to give people good housing , but they did put a stop to people being able to do things for themselves , ’ he told the Observer . |
| 18 | Although within Goody 's own terms they do provide a challenge to his claims for the consequences of a shift from oral to literate culture , they do not provide an unambiguous or ‘ scientific ’ starting point from which to test those claims . |
| 19 | He did make a visit to Rangoon , either in December 1945 or January 1946 , when he called on the Governor who noted on a draft ‘ Nu snubbed ’ . |
| 20 | He did n't know how high a temperature they could take before they went into shut-down , and he supposed he would n't get a chance to record his findings if he did pursue the experiment to the end . |
| 21 | Erm , he did have the right to that trial for erm what the previous offence before taking conveyance which was a clock taken without the owner 's consent and previous offence before that taking but in order to reduce costs right mainly because they also want at the same time to remove the right for theft ah and they failed . |
| 22 | Its advantage was that it worked , in that it gave some hope of understanding why chemical compounds behave as they do ; and it did open the way to symbolizing chemical reactions . |
| 23 | The third , in an article on " Obsolescent languages " ( N.C. Dorian ) , did not , although it did refer the reader to the main entry on " Bilingualism " ( K. Hakuta ) . |
| 24 | ‘ But it shows she was trying everything and it did put an end to the sightings at that time . ’ |
| 25 | In his book he seems rather proud of this episode , and I suppose it did foretell the scientist to be . |
| 26 | If he does make an application to court then at that stage we can er we can oppose his application . |
| 27 | However , it does emphasize the extent to which the public relies on the mass media for information about the outside world even though , in the final analysis , their understanding of those events may differ , particularly along political lines . |
| 28 | This does not gainsay the fundamental proposition that it is every citizen 's duty to retain self-control — at least to the extent of not violating other people 's interests — but it does open the way to a manslaughter verdict and to sentences which are rarely longer than eight years ' imprisonment ( less than half as long as the time served by many convicted of murder ) and may be considerably shorter . |
| 29 | But when all the please and thank you is unsaid and the little courtesy is undone , it does make a difference to society . |
| 30 | This does not necessarily disprove the contention that TNCs exploit women workers in particular in the Third World , though it does modify the thesis to the extent that in some developing countries TNCs do provide some good jobs for women that help them to fulfil relatively freely chosen cultural needs . |