Example sentences of "do [adv] [vb infin] that [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised I had never ever shaken his hand before , MPs do not do that sort of thing . |
| 2 | I do not offer that reading as any startling new interpretation ; it is a decoding of the text that many gay men ( and no doubt a sprinkling of perceptive heterosexuals ) have made . |
| 3 | Harris peremptorily summoned him to the committee-room after this latter incident and told him : ‘ We do not want that sort of thing at Lord 's , Fender . ’ |
| 4 | Freedom to worship our religion in our own country has been bought dearly with blood and tears — and you do not surrender that sort of freedom easily . |
| 5 | We do not agree that information on ‘ alternative engineering options / solutions in the light of environmental factors ’ should be exempted from publication . |
| 6 | I do not accept that line of argument from the hon. Gentleman . |
| 7 | Much as I would like to assist the hon. Gentleman , I can not as I do not accept that transport for students at boards of management colleges should remain with education authorities . |
| 8 | Given that , at least in the first year of the new council tax , there will still be two-tier authorities in the shires , I hope that the Bill will be as tight as a drum to ensure that the tiered authorities that are not up for election do not use that freedom from the ballot box — as happened in Nottinghamshire with the poll tax — to wreck the council tax in the way that they wrecked the poll tax in its first year . |
| 9 | ‘ We do not need that kind of publicity and do not want to be involved in that sort of thing . |
| 10 | We do not read that passage with its use of ‘ prima facie ’ as requiring that the Secretary of State must adopt the judicial view in all cases . |
| 11 | The only prior knowledge a baby has is what is in its chromosomes , and chromosomes do not encode that sort of knowledge . |
| 12 | League tables that do not take that correlation into consideration distort reality and are inaccurate . |
| 13 | Even if our ministries do not take that form of living as radically as that , incarnation does challenge each of us to apply the message of Christ . |
| 14 | I do not find that evidence in all respects convincing . |
| 15 | ‘ Alas , ’ he said , ‘ I do not sell that kind of information . ’ |
| 16 | Historical events do not have that character at all : they do in fact occur in one way rather than another , but they could all conceivably have turned out quite differently . |
| 17 | I doubt whether many young people will be deterred by a fine of £1,000 or £5,000 , because they do not have that kind of money available . |
| 18 | Most of us do not have that sort of time to spare . |
| 19 | Local authorities do not have that information at the moment . |
| 20 | ‘ I certainly do n't miss that end of it . ’ |
| 21 | If it was n't that we had to develop from an egg in every generation , I do n't think that kind of conservatism would be observed . |
| 22 | I pretended to ignore this and he said something in German after me which I took to mean : ‘ You must be a very dull fellow if you do n't think that sort of thing funny . ’ |
| 23 | I think that if the schools , I do n't suppose that kind of thing but erm , I mean the schools out in Surrey and all erm places like that . |
| 24 | But as I say I do n't do that kind of thing , I , I prefer to go away to the hills , |
| 25 | I do n't do that kind of thing . |
| 26 | There are evasive strategists — those who say : " I do n't do that type of problem ! " |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't do that sort of thing . ’ |
| 28 | You do n't do that sort of thing . |
| 29 | But you do n't at any stage say , what did you say that for , you know , something like that , you just do n't do that sort of thing . |
| 30 | No but you do n't you do n't do that sort of thing . |