Example sentences of "do [vb infin] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Though you did make rather a big dent in my dignity . |
| 2 | I think one of the things that is necessary is that you do need quite a strong centre within government at the moment , and , as we deal with all these complicated issues , whether they are … political or intelligence issues [ such ] as … the Falklands Isles or whether it 's something highly controversial such as nuclear power or defence or even road systems , you need a much stronger centre than we have got at the moment . |
| 3 | The four men , as McKenzie had suggested , did present rather an odd spectacle . |
| 4 | The second fact issued before us and it 's one that I referred to er when we did it , debated this last time is that if members do take seriously the whole question of |
| 5 | Erm we were agents for a firm called in Australia , who made very good leather indeed , and we did sell quite a large amount of his tanneds to the local er firms for the saddlery trade . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , I did have rather a bad night . ’ |
| 7 | All the same , he did find eventually a settled domesticity with them . |
| 8 | Liz had joked that they were sure , in the rafters , to discover a dead baby , and indeed they did find there a mummified cat , which a pathologist friend hazarded to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 9 | It does look rather a big document , you know . |
| 10 | But it does sound quite a big area to me if you have n't got the land in the first place . |
| 11 | ‘ It does seem rather an absurd idea , after all ‘ civil ’ covers the middle ground , and somehow I do n't think that area exists for us . ’ |
| 12 | Well it means that if if Botham does open then the only place for Hicks is in the middle taking Lamb 's place so when Lamb comes back |