Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] do [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 For her life is more important than mine and all my kind do honour her .
2 Well actually people in my area do have a concern about this , also though I was brought up in my teens at least within a rural area and I know full well that to hold certain views even those of the majority within rural areas , are not necessarily easily expressed and I have today been told of yet another example of this being the case .
3 My children do go to school and have been for some months now .
4 Yes my children do go to school now and have done for some months now .
5 My children do go to school and have been for some months now .
6 Yes my children do go to school and have done for some months now .
7 Yes my children do go to school and have been for some months now .
8 Yes my children do go to school oh I was going to say , have been for some months now .
9 So the women in my book do emerge ; in the end they become the father …
10 This approach does not place the emphasis upon the problems with which solicitors do deal , but upon those with which they could deal .
11 It 's not just that we 're going to write articles about EastEnders , but what we 're interested in is EastEnders , The Bill , Brookside , because a lot of people actually watch these programmes , and there is clearly a way in which programmes do seem to be referencing each other and dealing with similar topics .
12 Even so , they find that their skills do enable them to get children back to their own homes , although this as yet is a secondary role .
13 But when these procedures have left gaps , people know they have no right to rely on anything , except that if their activities do provoke litigation judges will decide their fate by constructing what is , in the judges ' opinion at least , the best rule for the future . "
14 While we believe that their books do meet the criteria outlined above [ in the preceding paragraphs ] we have no doubt that so too do those of many authors who are favourites with children and teachers . ’
15 Their data do bear out a long-term relative decline in urban manufacturing ( ibid. , Table 2 ) .
16 Finally , at least in the social sciences , there would seem to be strong social influences on which methods do get displayed and which are ignored .
17 Perhaps if you write into PPC with your tales of which manufacturers do provide an adequate technical advice service and which simply expect you to look elsewhere we might all know who to avoid .
18 The identification of lust with ‘ brown girls ’ probably had no racial connotations in that innocently discriminatory age ; but the scenes towards the end where the Witch tries to capture John with her wiles do leave the disconcerting impression that Lewis thought of Christianity as little more than a good ‘ cure ’ for lust .
19 As it happens , cases have been reported recently in which animals do seem to be able to recognize their relatives as such , but that is another story .
20 It shows , unequivocally , that many men in the last years of their lives do assume roles and perform tasks which have been traditionally associated with women , and it is clear that a substantial number do so with skill and tenderness .
21 Mr Smith believes it lies in treating the educated public as reasonable people and facing up to the fact that their expectations do need satisfying .
22 Yet Hornblower 's agonisings over thoughts of Barbara in the arms of her husband do verge on the sentimental and the hackneyed as Hornblower suffers ‘ a white hot wave of passion as he thought of her , slim and lovely , understanding and sweet ’ .
23 Erm she would ask that and fine that impose today er , could be paid by her at the rate of five pounds per week erm , she er runs a car her invalidity income amounts to forty six pounds fifteen pence per week and she also receives a super annuation payment from her former employers Goldeson 's Hospital at the rate of a hundred and three pounds per month but she and her husband do have to er to run the home and er , and run the house er , run run the car and she would ask that she 'll be allowed to pay at the rate of five pound per week .
24 Although recognizing that there are no realistic alternatives to some tests involving animals , Fentem says there are many animal tests for which alternatives do exist .
25 Yet this is exactly the way in which people do speak , especially ‘ in a state of excitement ’ , as any tape-recorder can prove .
26 That is one of the things about mass pickets and mass demonstrations which people do find worrying .
27 We also have a mobile disenchanted society in which people do get on their bikes , move around from bedsitter to bedsitter with growing elements of homelessness and there are serious problems about registration .
28 Captive breeding of rare species is a skill which is developing and which , in the long run , is likely to have a substantial effect on which species do survive .
29 The main feature of the bureaucratic-technical class is that although it lacks effective control over the means of production its members do have control over the labour of others in their subordinate position in bureaucratic structures .
30 ‘ It would be wrong to say we are over-run with Japanese visitors — there 's plenty of room and welcome for visitors from every country — but their numbers do seem to be increasing , ’ said Dr Robert Woof , 60 , director of the Wordsworth Trust .
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