Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does he know all about Ben then does he ? |
| 2 | Growing out of childhood involves a great many major changes , so it is not surprising if teenagers seem totally self-absorbed and may sit for hours apparently doing nothing but day-dreaming . |
| 3 | In response to this decision Parliament hastily passed the War Damage Act 1965 with retrospective effect to deny entitlement to compensation for damage for acts lawfully done by the Crown during a war in which the Sovereign was engaged . |
| 4 | Will you will you for Saturday though do that , see Ian and make sure he knows what wants do what you think wants doing . |
| 5 | And we used to catch them alive , take them out , put them in a bag together again , and off home again do you see . |
| 6 | However , it must be emphasised that all the women who chose not to register for work actually did want paid employment and took up any employment opportunities which arose ( Callender , 1986a ) . |
| 7 | Well it is I mean trees give off oxygen anyway do n't they ? |
| 8 | It is just as unbelievable that the Ministry of Defence apparently does not know what happened to them afterwards , what careers they followed . |
| 9 | Daffodil Quentin seems to be acceptable to the other owners , who of course probably do n't know about her three dead horses . |
| 10 | Language work is of course already done in many schools . |
| 11 | Of course there do exist many positive individuals , schools and authorities . |
| 12 | Well yes we had you could see on some of them , they did n't want much to turn them on , you know there was two or three there and they they took some others with them of course then did n't they , you know . |
| 13 | Younger respondents , moreover , tended on the whole to take a more favourable view of Soviet nationality policy and to manifest less hostility towards Russians then did their elders , particularly if they were better educated . |
| 14 | Erm let me just see if I 've got a I made a whole page of notes here du n no whether any of its important . |
| 15 | What sort of experience How did you find that ? |
| 16 | The same thing , if somebody 's annoying you like that , ignore them like I said , I do n't mean I wo n't just let them sit there I 'll touch my brakes a couple of times perhaps do the old bit with the mirror and like I said , normally if they 're if they 're responsible drivers that have just happened , they got a bit close then maybe they 'll drop back as I 've done |
| 17 | This ‘ glosses over the real distinctions in the capacity to consume and ignores the low paid , the unemployed , the old ’ ( p.22 ) , though the ubiquity of the culture-ideology of consumerism actually does include everyone ( or , at least , all urban dwellers ) however poor , because no one can escape its images . |
| 18 | The popularity of programmes therefore did become a factor in BBC calculations in a qualitatively different way from previously . |
| 19 | Yeah , just leave that now , you want a drop of milk now do you Anthony ? |
| 20 | There seemed to be no sense or reason for war at Forres ; in the bonny land of Moray there did not appear to be anything such as rationing . |
| 21 | And er when you have a er a kaleidoscope , you get all sorts of shapes together do n't you ? |
| 22 | Certainly , the complex set up in the city meant that the bishop , appointed in the time of Sigibert , was only too easily suspected of treason by Guntram — and the arrival of Gundovald clearly did not help matters . |
| 23 | If you do have any other questions I 'm stopping for a cup of tea so do please approach me quietly if you need some |
| 24 | Another kind of formal link between sentences is the substitution of words like do or so for a word or group of words which have appeared in an earlier sentence . |
| 25 | As well as distortions to the official figures produced by police recording practice , there are a variety of reasons why victims of crime often do not report offences . |
| 26 | Again , different ‘ normal ’ individuals play their social roles with more or less commitment and conviction , and the individual 's actual repertoire of roles usually does not exhaust his range . |
| 27 | Actually he made a return a couple of months back did n't he ? |
| 28 | Incremental transfers of data therefore do not reflect module name deletion . |
| 29 | In particular the expectations of research often do not match the actual practice of their supervisors . |
| 30 | she was made of snow why do you think |