Example sentences of "[coord] do [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all she wants to know is do I use this jug , or do we use that jug . |
| 2 | Obviously , we that right , people will still move if unemployment 's high , but if you try , if the government tries and gets rid of unem urban unemployment , say people have moved because of it , so there 's unemployment there to start with because of the reasons we 've discussed earlier , so then the government said okay , well let's get rid of the unemployment that has occurred already , by erm , either , at the same wage rate trying to well yes , the same , they 'll keep wage rates the same , but erm , increase , you know , make the public sector bigger or , or do something to create urban jobs , and basically all it will do is , encourage more migrants because they 'll see the probability of getting a job will increase so the expected wage will increase so you 'll get migration on top of what 's already occurring . |
| 3 | Oh I can imagine it being a bit strained off and on with er two lots of parents or do they know each other well and everything ? |
| 4 | Do they look viable , or do they occupy run-down property ? |
| 5 | Are their emotions in fact dictated by the current situation , or do they display emotional reactions which are more persistent and more complex than they can articulate in words ? |
| 6 | Do students learn passively , by taking notes in a 50-minute lecture , or do they have more control over their own learning ? |
| 7 | Before I went , my father asked me : ‘ Are you going to marry Elizabeth , or do you love another woman ? |
| 8 | Do you still want to marry me , or do you love another woman ? |
| 9 | Do you think at the moment society in Britain , in Scotland takes proper account of that variety of options , or do you think undue stress is put on one er one or other ? |
| 10 | Your Area Managers , your Regional Directors , all got plans ? or do you think those people that are running the company just get up on a Monday , oh , let's see what we can do this week . |
| 11 | Do you think society er smiles on all forms of love or do you think some kinds of love and loving are , are actually seen as being lesser than others there , there seems to be less sympathetic for er I mean , yes |
| 12 | Or do you reckon that shirt ? |
| 13 | May I quote you or your company or do you prefer total anonymity ? |
| 14 | Are you looking for the interaction where you learn something about the culture from talking to the people or do you want minimal interaction where simply you visit a place , and you stay in your little bubble or ghetto with people of your own tour company , you do everything together and you never come into contact with local people . |
| 15 | Will you have the new fashion taps or do you want different bits here ? |
| 16 | You sure you 'd like Coke or do you want some orange ? |
| 17 | Or do you want some company ? |
| 18 | Do you collect stamps which follow particular themes or areas , or do you collect all sorts of subjects ? |
| 19 | Or do you feel comfortable making decisions about where you 're investing your money , or would you be happy for somebody else to do it ? |
| 20 | or do you call this living room ? |
| 21 | Comments such as ‘ a history of childhood abuse is both hip and horrible , the rock'n'roll statement with knobs on ’ do not encourage other men to discuss the issue , nor do they treat this subject with the seriousness it deserves . |
| 22 | But these private fictions are rarely of much significance , nor do they affect most people — despite much American talk of ‘ roots ’ . |
| 23 | They do not purport to explain fully why peripheral areas are in the condition in which they find themselves , nor do they regard one dimension ( in this case , the political ) as offering the complete explanation . |
| 24 | They are not places for quiet reflection , they are not clubrooms in which plots and schemes can be laid nor do they have useful collections of books , journals and other aids to professional thinking . |
| 25 | The garbage pickers are not employed by Cartón de Colombia or the warehouses , nor do they have any sort of contract with them . |
| 26 | Whether there is any social morality or justice in such a system is not a matter which the detectives are given to question ; nor do they spend much time in reflecting on why some dubious property acquisition is outside their terms of reference , or what the relationship is of such practices to the maintenance of position and power . |
| 27 | Nor do they take proper account of the risks banks run on their foreign-exchange and interest-rate positions . |
| 28 | While the Chewong are fully aware of the physiological differences between the sexes , these are not valued relative to each other , nor do they constitute any base for symbolic ordering ( see Howell 1983 , 1988 for further discussion on Chewong gender ) . |
| 29 | Nor do they include old favourites like industrial subsidies and incomes policies . |
| 30 | This is reinforced by Handy 's view that schools have a multiplicity of purposes and these are not discriminated between or prioritised , nor do they include any reference to the management of adults . |