Example sentences of "they do [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean when our researchers were doing our London Guide for nineteen ninety one , they did actually make that point that erm they reckoned that things were overpriced in London . |
| 2 | All that mattered to these people was to kill ; how they did so had little significance . |
| 3 | There was nowhere to put these prisoners except back into the former regime 's gaols , where they did indeed face sub-human conditions , especially of overcrowding . |
| 4 | We begin with a brief look at the official figures , since , whatever the shortcomings of these statistics , and no matter how distorted a picture of ‘ real ’ crime they portray , they do nevertheless have real effects , since they are used , for example , in political debate and inform , at least partially , the public 's perception of the crime problem . |
| 5 | They do however share one thing in common , they are all quality products , and have always been high in the list of best selling computer games on all hardware formats . |
| 6 | For their part , Oxfordshire say they do still vaccinate at-risk babies , which they believe is far more effective . |
| 7 | It is interesting to find that they have somewhat unusual morphological forms , which may suggest that they do indeed make some sort of special call on speakers ' capacity for linguistic construction . |
| 8 | By asking the pupils to construct lists of similar words you are affirming the underlying logic of English spelling — that there are patterns and families , that particular sounds may have different ways of being written down , but that there are only a limited number of ways , and they do actually obey certain rules . |
| 9 | It is appears to be accepted in principle by Selby in paragraph two point eight of their submission , that they do actually accept this approach . |