Example sentences of "do [adv] [pron] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he does attempt to do so he either receives a negative reply or causes the officer of that other authority to send a copy of the correspondence to his own chief executive or clerk . |
| 2 | Thus , if I touch the table-leg , by doing so I necessarily touch the table ; if the tea-pot handle is broken , so is the tea-pot , and so on . |
| 3 | In doing so it also increased the social and political consequences of racism ’ ( A. Sivanandan , ‘ Race , Class and the State ’ ) . |
| 4 | He did so he actually organized the funeral . |
| 5 | There is the hypothesis that these input systems do not themselves fully specify the information we derive from them , that there is subconscious guesswork involved in acts of seeing , hearing and language processing : the mind is constrained to operate on a least effort principle , imposing the first interpretation it can , commensurate with providing adequate information ( SPERBER and WILSON 1986 ) . |
| 6 | and if you leave a message it will be dealt with and people do leave a message , whereas before when it just said I 'm sorry I 'm not available they did n't they just put the phone down . |
| 7 | Why did n't they just cancel the whole thing ? ’ |
| 8 | However , they were originally scheduled for different nights , but it has always been possible for this scenario to arrise , so why did n't they just schedule the matches to be played at the same time no matter what ? |
| 9 | ‘ Did n't you even have a man on him ? ’ said Owen incredulously . |
| 10 | Well why did n't you just bring the note and show it to me ? |
| 11 | It would n't be mine , but it 's better than having a could , why did n't you just get a little false tooth like the girl did ? |
| 12 | Why did n't you just thrust the phone into her hand ? |
| 13 | Why did n't you just turn the knob ? |
| 14 | ‘ Did n't you ever see The Invisible Man ? ’ |
| 15 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
| 16 | And because she wanted to know more , she wanted to find out all there was to find out about this dark , ancient stronghold that her ancestors had known , at times she stole out from her bedchamber after nightfall and stood listening to the night rustlings and the soft settling of the old , old timbers ( and the footsteps ? did n't she still hear the footsteps every night ? ) and thought that if only she knew the right words , or if only she had the power , she could summon the enchantments and lay bare the secrets and understand this place . |
| 17 | The sudden impossible inspirations — ‘ Look , just a minute , why do n't we simply scrap the Triassic strata altogether , and to hell with it ? ’ |
| 18 | Because if we do n't we then run the risk of being injured ourselves erm somebody alleging that they did n't realise they were police officers and therefore shot at us because they thought we were invading their territory or something . |
| 19 | No , I do n't they even got the milk . |
| 20 | Why do n't they just print the job supplement ? |
| 21 | Why , he asks , do n't they just pour the water on the floor and machine-gun it ? |
| 22 | Do n't they just think the world of themselves ? ’ |
| 23 | why do n't they just let the stuff grow naturally ? |
| 24 | Well do n't I just go the next one great than three ? |
| 25 | ‘ Why do n't I just wear a bag over my head ? ’ she asked . |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't I even get a sword ? ’ he pleaded . |
| 27 | I did at one time I know I never I do n't I never touch a thing there and I thought and he would you mind opening your carrier and I 've got sanitary towels in there |
| 28 | Do n't you also attack the church ? |
| 29 | Why do n't you just open the back gate so that they can come and collect their stuff when they want it ? |
| 30 | I said , Why do n't you just knock the flaming wall down . |