Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | And right where she did n't expect it in the black universe was another dark space , solid with hidden meanings , difficult to see , alien to her comprehension . |
| 2 | ‘ He 'd schooled very well and although I had hoped for a lead for a bit longer , we had to go on where we did . |
| 3 | You do seem to enjoy watching nude bathers , so do n't you think it would be much better for everyone involved if you went somewhere where they did n't mind being watched ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Some day , ’ Nicholas said , ‘ You 'll find yourself somewhere where someone does understand Flemish , and they 'll cut your ears off , and then all your red hair , wherever you grow it . |
| 5 | Francis used to imitate the Abaconian speech , dropping aitches from where they belonged , slipping them in where they did not . |
| 6 | ( Nothing to do with mice or holes but probably a corruption of the Cornish Moweshayl , young women 's river — perhaps where they did their washing . ) |
| 7 | I 'll take it home well and you can have , well there 'll be nowt bloody said at our house after five o'clock so you do n't |
| 8 | The extension of VAT was ‘ fairly predictable and he is phasing it in so it does not look quite so bad ’ . |
| 9 | Albert said : ‘ They even held her train as she walked in so it did n't get wet . ’ |
| 10 | Find a long jumper that comes well down , and tuck it in so you do n't get a draught over your kidneys . |
| 11 | Fill in the order form below so you do n't miss out . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's taken me 10 years to grow them this long so I do n't like hiding them completely under a hat . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Some , like the osprey and the peregrine falcon , which flies even more swiftly than we do , almost died out . |
| 14 | So although I did n't like him touching me the way he had , I decided not to tell anybody . |
| 15 | I used to get them various gigs at the Marquee Club in Wardour Street and the Roundhouse , and some dates at universities throughout the country , but there was n't an awful lot coming in although I did succeed in getting him a TV appearance and the producer , who was a good friend of mine , said , ‘ I 'll not have this guy on my programme with long hair ’ . ’ |
| 16 | As it lives on a diet of poll findings , it can not perform better than they do . |
| 17 | ‘ I know Nell better than they do ! |
| 18 | Although there can never be any guarantees , it is frequently the case that older children enjoy working with younger ones , enjoy the responsibility they are being given , and behave much better than they do when they are working on their own . |
| 19 | I have never seen England play better than they did against Ireland and I 'm sure few other people would argue about that . |
| 20 | Their forwards will also need to scrummage far better than they did against Armary , Genet and Gallart , who had them under the cosh from the second minute . |
| 21 | Afterwards I felt ashamed that I thought I knew better than they did , especially when they were doing everything for free . |
| 22 | Nobody knew the risks better than they did . |
| 23 | Chivers , providing dynamic leadership as Derry get ready for their most important match since last year 's Ulster decider , is adamant that the side can play much , much better than they did in the McKenna climax . |
| 24 | and he treated his horse well I mean a lot of these horseman , good horseman treated the horse better than they did the wife ! |
| 25 | I do n't recall hearing Robin Cook tell us that ‘ other European countries ’ manage their health services better than we do . |
| 26 | I tell you those guys eat a lot better than we do . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We 're picking clients up left , right and centre from all sorts of people who 've been charging pretty fancy fees and really failing to do any better than we do , ’ says Michael Read , head of the private client department . |
| 28 | They read our body language better than we do ourselves , and signal to us just as they would to each other . |
| 29 | But it does not at all follow from the fact that causal circumstances in a sense guarantee their effects that we can predict those effects better than we do . |
| 30 | As for Victor — you probably know his whereabouts better than we do ! ’ |