Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] do [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the majority of samurai did live as retainers in castle towns , there were some marginal cases who continued to reside in the countryside , often cultivating the land . |
| 2 | His appeal must have met with some response because although some hundreds of people did leave for Fort-de-France , many hundreds more sought refuge in St Pierre itself , flocking in from the surrounding countryside , so that on the morning of 8 May , as many as 30,000 people were probably crowding the town . |
| 3 | However , lots of people did give very generously , and we managed to raise several thousand pounds for research and education on arthritis . |
| 4 | A lot of people did look out at the station , but they saw nothing strange . |
| 5 | By these we do not just mean that lots of people do research and take time over it . |
| 6 | However a lot of people do leave them there . |
| 7 | Parish council clerk at Gainford Margaret Brown said : ‘ They should n't strictly have been on the bridge but a lot of people do walk on it and climb over the small barricade at each end . |
| 8 | and a lot of people do fight against it , and I , I can understand it er , it 's so different to me |
| 9 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |
| 10 | You touched on church weddings , now lots and lots of people do get married in church , although many of them are n't er are n't necessarily church-goers , now Chrissie , can I , can I pick on you ? |
| 11 | The rasp of the Pratt and Whitney R985 radial engine is not quite so authentically nostalgic as the putter of the old Tiger Moth 's Gipsy Major , but lost of people do like to do things in pairs while on holiday . |
| 12 | In discussing the findings the author concludes that while a number of people do have cause to complain about their medical examination , these results indicate that only a small percentage have problems . |
| 13 | But despite all those programmes on television and articles in newspapers and magazines the fact still remains , an awful lot of people do have problems when they go shopping . |
| 14 | I 'm , I 'm , I 'm a bit against er traders like , like builders and all like that and trade people being on the Council , I 'm a bit against that , er but after saying that , those kind of people do have some understanding on what 's to be done |
| 15 | I think a lot of people do realize that with chemotherapy , you do lose your hair . |
| 16 | Guillemin has already found that labelled antibodies to hpGRF do attach themselves to cells in the hypothalamus of human or squirrel monkey brains . |