Example sentences of "[adv] do [vb infin] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rejected the idea that the associated companies which together did have a countrywide business were in any way relevant . |
| 2 | While it brings a warm glow of a job well done ( and , perhaps , the thought that a happy subscriber is more likely to keep on subscribing ) answering such queries personally does leave a nagging worry . |
| 3 | Mary Ann Doane 's argument concerning the ‘ women 's films ’ of the 1940s , for example , was that these products of mainstream fiction cinema were directed at a female audience and thus did construct a female gaze . |
| 4 | fucking did get a decent hand |
| 5 | Corrigan and Frith ( CCCS , 1975 , p. 238 ) concluded : ‘ even if youth culture is not political in the sense of being part of a class-conscious struggle for state power , it nevertheless does provide a necessary precondition of such a struggle ’ . |
| 6 | Morton reflected that if , indeed , he ever did become a royal photographer , life would be much duller for his acquaintances . |
| 7 | But they still did do a certain amount of er the stock in trade course the bins for g for transporting stuff in and all like that . |
| 8 | ‘ Cameron always did take a hard line on these things , ’ she tells her . |
| 9 | He always did look a funny sort of chap though did n't he ? |
| 10 | Let Spencer help you , my dear , my youngest son always did have a good head for figures . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You always did have a gallant streak , Jimmie , ’ Randall said , skirting the crowd . |
| 12 | Yet in spite of the increasing number of school libraries ( and the growing number of professional librarians running them , albeit still an unsatisfactorily small number ) the public library can and still does offer a useful user education service to schoolchildren . |
| 13 | These economists were ready to accept that there probably did exist a particular unemployment rate at which inflation was neither rising nor falling but they were unwilling to associate this rate with a state of overall full employment . |
| 14 | We 're a school choir — if there are many youth choirs , who can draw from several schools around the area there then the chances of our getting anywhere are slim but if it 's large school choirs then I think we probably do stand a fair chance . |
| 15 | Now these adjectives clearly do retain a restrictive quality even in predicative position . |
| 16 | They also do receive a significant proportion of their income from the sale of goods and services rather than from taxes . |
| 17 | I think we really do need a well-known patron to get our work recognised , preferably somebody who loves Labradors ! |
| 18 | But I really do have a terrible head . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't want you to imagine a great big long stalk , you know , but I mean they really do have a big projection from the side of the head in gesophola hetroinura , whereas in the known ancestor of that , gesopholis ulvestris , it 's head is just the same shape as any other sensible fruit fly . |
| 20 | If you do n't know who that audience is then you really do have a monumental task in front of you . |
| 21 | Erm they really do look a little bit drab , a little bit grey . |
| 22 | The malai army doctors really did hold a little surgery for our children . |
| 23 | Ferngrove Park , with its woods and meadows and deep thickets full of secret nooks and crannies , was a place where the Brownies really did have a grand time . |
| 24 | She really did have a long way to go , and she had not yet learned to recognise the precise lineaments , the demeanour and the shape of the shadow of Stan . |
| 25 | In the end , I really did have a good time at College . |
| 26 | they really did have a proper scheme and you were paid a sort of reasonable wage |
| 27 | I did n't really believe it at first , er , and then I received couple or more phone calls from er various people in the industry who er , who were aware of it and started to congratulate me , and then I realised that it was the truth , that er I really did have a big hit record once again with Blue Velvet . |
| 28 | We know that in these cases we often do face a real choice of evils and we have to find some way of deciding which of these evils is the worst . |
| 29 | Banks are important and often do take a leading role , but they are not the spider . |
| 30 | A little really does go a long way , so apply sparingly , by dotting on minute amounts and rubbing in well — only re-apply every three hours or so . |