Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it was the last one left and we did n't want to get another bearded collie because it would when our old bearded collie eventually goes we did n't want it to remind us too much so we said we 'd go completely different . |
| 2 | ‘ Val would presumably prefer you did n't get arrested . ’ |
| 3 | See , in America they 're being touted as ( cough , splutter ) ‘ The New Smiths ’ , which presumably has nothing to do with The New Seekers and a lot to do with , ‘ Hey , these guys are grreaat ! ’ |
| 4 | The emergence of the adult within has nothing to do with numerical age . |
| 5 | When she began to unbutton his shirt he stood , paralysed , staring at the slack flesh round her stomach , he shivered and she took it for excitement ; he had dreamed about this , waiting for the moment when he would instinctively know what to do , would take control , but instead she was rubbing against him with a cool professionalism that unnerved him . |
| 6 | She suddenly realized she did n't know what she had meant . |
| 7 | He had dropped me a note the day he left advising me to sell , so sell I did , but despite many hours spent traipsing round the East End I could only find one interested party : Mr Cohen , who had for some years conducted his tailor 's business from above my father 's shop and wanted to expand . |
| 8 | Does it matter whether he really died in a burning building or whether he only thinks he did ? |
| 9 | I suddenly realised they did n't like each other ; that they were rivals . |
| 10 | As they drove along Three Springs Road , Juliet suddenly realised they did n't know Miss Rose 's address ! |
| 11 | His gaze had already returned to Jessamy , and she suddenly realised she did n't want to be left alone with Julius . |
| 12 | You 'd be lost here I can tell you angel , especially given you do n't know how to get from Shepherd 's Bush to Hammersmith without a police escort . |
| 13 | Ever heard the expression , ‘ He 's so stoned he does n't know what day of the week it is ’ ? |
| 14 | I do n't necessarily think it does . |
| 15 | But it is nowhere near enough to enable us to do without cumulative selection altogether . |
| 16 | ‘ He said something that made the implication that I 'd copied and I was sort of so choked I did n't answer . |
| 17 | Sometimes Nick understood what Mister Johnny said and sometimes he only pretended he did , to annoy Carrie , but they were always happy together . |
| 18 | Perhaps to compensate it does classical physical chemistry well , and has one eye on the expanding market for physical chemistry books among life-science students . |
| 19 | ‘ Next thing we were playing support on a Mary Black tour and from doing folk club gigs for maybe 100 customers I suddenly found myself doing 20 nights in a row in front of 2,000 people or more . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The main reason we broke up in the '80s was that after five or six years of constant touring and recording we suddenly found we did n't like each other any more . |
| 21 | But , surely , coming back to the a highly say I did n't do it . |
| 22 | Perhaps it all has something to do with those mind-bending drugs . |
| 23 | First , it obviously has nothing to do with the actual gender of the words , since all of them refer to ungendered objects or substances . |
| 24 | ‘ We 're all old enough and wise enough to know what to do , but we are n't doing it . |
| 25 | It 's a gentle romantic comedy in which Boston architect Newton Davis ( Martin ) builds a dream house for the girl of his dreams , Becky ( Dana Delaney ) , only to discover he does n't even figure in her grand game plan of life . |
| 26 | Er okay er so has anybody done erm er let's start with erm er Miss , has anybody done Miss ? |
| 27 | Do you have any guidelines , as I do n't want to do lots of work , only to find they do n't like them ? |
| 28 | Some suffer side-effects from drugs only to find they do n't work anyway . |
| 29 | The fact that you can place objects of the correct size in position also means that the program will help to avoid the heavy work of moving furniture or fixtures and fittings only to find they do n't fit . |
| 30 | As a bad sign of liberated times , the opposition tried to call a press conference on the morning of Mr Baker 's arrival , only to find it did not have official permission to do so . |