Example sentences of "in the [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the final hour he did deliver the goods , taking impromptu questions from the audience . |
| 2 | In the final section you did pay close attention to detail , but it remained only observation of detail . |
| 3 | She has said nothing of this to me , and as her father I really ought to know , I think , what she , and you , propose to do , even if in the modern fashion you do not choose to ask me for my blessing . ’ |
| 4 | However , in the nineteenth century we do see much more clearly the rise of a concept equivalent or similar to the modern one , although the definition itself was not fully developed until the work of the American G. Stanley Hall and his colleagues in the 1890s , and first popularised in his massive book published in 1904 . |
| 5 | Well I can remember then the last year when I was in the ninth year we did it in that half term , it was n't the first |
| 6 | In the listening phase you do n't say anything , you just listen and allow the sounds and patterns of the language to flow into you . |
| 7 | ( Once , in the 1914-18 War we did the footplate journey in the company of eighteen very large Australian soldiers ) . |
| 8 | In the former case it does not matter that the victim consented ; in the latter the conduct must be unauthorised . |
| 9 | They simply deny things in the real world they do n't want to recognize . |
| 10 | That 's the bit that people fe find a bit hard to er to accept because in the real world it does n't actually happen because there 's always some other force like air resistance , friction , road resistance from your tyres and , and it grad it always stops eventually . |
| 11 | In the real world it did not require a superman to beat Mr Kinnock . |
| 12 | In the Victorian era it did but it does n't today . |
| 13 | Well why in the bloody hell I did n't go then ? |
| 14 | ‘ But these days if you 're not in the Premier League you do n't even merit a look . |
| 15 | And the reason in the first place I did leave the building trade was my hands was breaking out with in industrial disease , see ? |
| 16 | In the first place I do not know exactly what it was like in all its details . |
| 17 | In the first place I do not accept the representative theory of perception . |
| 18 | Well , in the first place you do n't of course , because the , the manifest content may be totally innocent . |
| 19 | Then in the long run I did in fact to Superintendent about the information we had gleaned from this telephone call . |
| 20 | In the long run it does not work ; if it did , the parents would not be asking for advice . |
| 21 | You can adjust them , but in the long term it does damage them . |
| 22 | In the first case they had enough kinetic energy to make it ; in the second case they did not . |
| 23 | In the second half he did an extremly dainty control of the ball by sort of twisting it off his middle with his arms up in the air , towards some nearby Leeds player . |
| 24 | In the present case I do not agree with Mann L.J. , with all respect to him , that there is any great difficulty in defining the persons from whom , applying the principle to which I have just referred , the decision-making authority might be required to seek representations . |
| 25 | What differentiates the Asiatic system is that while in the ancient or feudal systems the community sees itself as a fundamental unit and as the holder of its common property , in the oriental case it does not . |
| 26 | The idea of decentralization to departmental units of accountable management not only undermines the hierarchical authority structure traditionally used in bureaucracies to enforce equitable application of departmental rules ( see p. 26 ) , but its underlying aim , as Gray and Jenkins ( 1985 , p. 157 ) warn , ‘ may be to downgrade … the search for fairness and equity of treatment … since such practices may not be value for money ’ , In the private sector , where equity is less important ( and in some cases absent ) , the search for value for money conflicts with no particular value systems , but in the public sector it does . |
| 27 | But certainly in the Craven context I do not feel there is any justification for this policy . |
| 28 | Gore was seen to have the advantages of youth , good looks , and increasing political stature — as a candidate in the 1988 contest he did unexpectedly well and had increased his reputation since . |
| 29 | You would not , for instance , had he had his way , have been able to go on running the provender committee in the disgraceful way you did . ’ |
| 30 | Why ca n't you read involve in the English language I do not know . |