Example sentences of "do [vb infin] [det] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I just could n't believe that people would be willing to do do that kind of thing , you know . |
| 2 | I mean I think there are groups of women all over the country very interested in feminism and doing lots of good work and providing support for women who do want some sort of change , and so if that 's what you mean by the women 's liberation movement I think it 's a very good thing . |
| 3 | Other times I am mean and nasty , and there are other times when I have n't got complete control of myself but I do want some sort of discipline . |
| 4 | The majority of votes , however , were cast for parties which do want some form of accommodation , if only on different terms . |
| 5 | You do need some space to work , though ; the AccuCard needs clearance of around two inches , which may take up the adjacent slot . |
| 6 | We 're not we we do need some kind of commitment from you , we we do n't need a contract . |
| 7 | by the way if we ever did do that stay with aunty Mary , right , then she came back with us |
| 8 | She did do some sewing at school did n't she ? |
| 9 | Now ‘ I 've Got My Mojo Working ’ does n't go down with everyone , but at that time there were a few people around who did like that kind of stuff , and we were hopefully appealing to them . ’ |
| 10 | Of those who do use some form of protection not all use a sunscreen … 13 per cent rely instead on a long-sleeved shirt or T-shirt and another 17 per cent on a sun hat . |
| 11 | ‘ Some men do like that type of woman . |
| 12 | So , if you would be so kind as to get into a position where you can see what I 'm doing without being too close it means that if we do splash any acid by accident er the likelihood of it causing any problems to anyone are minimal . |
| 13 | The distortion of scale which had appeared in the Cadaquès paintings is not encountered again in the following year , and while all subsequent paintings are understandably not as easily legible as this portrait , almost all of them do contain some kind of clue or stimulus which serves to identify the subject , and which renders it immediately recognizable to anyone familiar with Cubist iconography . |
| 14 | After that maybe , just maybe , you can start proving to me you do possess some measure of professionalism — although to be honest , ’ he added caustically , ‘ I 'm finding it hard to believe you 're capable of distinguishing between a weed and an orchid at the moment , or even digging a garden , let alone ever designing one . ’ |
| 15 | At that moment I did have some kind of advantage over him , because I knew a little more about some things than he did . |
| 16 | planning applications , erm the sort of locational aspects are important , the the existing policy in the structure plan did have some sort of control over the the number of jobs , but it 's as as David Potter has said , it 's been very difficult to monitor er the level of jobs being provided , and in practice it 's been really impossible to implement that aspect of of the policy . |
| 17 | Do have another helping of trifle . |
| 18 | In the present case , however , we do have some freedom of choice . |
| 19 | But in this case they do have some basis in physiology . |
| 20 | erm we have a welfare state , which erm ensures that very few people are living at absolute poverty — you do have shoes to wear , you do have some sort of food to eat — which was n't necessarily the case in the nineteen thirties — and people have had different education and training , their lives are very different . |
| 21 | In saying that , at the end of the month if we do pay this amount of money , I only earn five hundred pounds a month , that 's four hundred and forty eight pounds a month . |
| 22 | But er when they do play that ball to ball business erm |
| 23 | No , but it 's up to the every individual to try and make sure that they do get that level of service . |
| 24 | You do get some relief from failure of the PC 's own power converter . |
| 25 | But I did get another tingle of excitement when I swam a shade too near a jagged reef , and she grabbed me by the shoulder to pull me away . |
| 26 | The FLN deputies did cede some ground to government recommendations on independent candidates , who henceforward would need to secure 300 instead of 500 signatures in support of their candidacy . |
| 27 | Having said all that , I think the interest erm of history lies in exactly the same kind of area as interest in the future , in the sense that we are dealing erm as historians with time , and , to use the old cliché , time marches on , it certainly moves , and the future , the present and the past do form some kind of continuum . |
| 28 | I think public services such as London Underground are appalling , and the capital city does need some kind of burgomaster — Ken Livingstone at least gave London leadership . |
| 29 | The distribution of wealth used for consumption is of less interest to Marxists , though its distribution does give some indication of life style . |
| 30 | The anthropic principle does provide some sort of explanation of many of the remarkable numerical relations that are observed between the values of different physical parameters . |