Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] [vb infin] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was really remarkable was that although people did change their ground as a result of English pressure , Henry VIII and Somerset never actually dispelled all their support in Scotland . |
| 2 | And in those days most people did have their children at home , did n't they ? |
| 3 | Thus , although people do change their behaviour , habits , beliefs and lifestyles , why they do so is unclear . |
| 4 | However , starting from civil society has the virtue of starting from how people do lead their lives and brings us up against questions about how social changes have transformed the range of possibilities available to them . |
| 5 | sort of you , and people do get their broken up , and you say , oh well Face gets away with it , but he 's the only one , everyone else sort of gets on their face . |
| 6 | It 's the planning aspect that 's difficult , people er , jolly well well people do sell their bodies in the street , people do sing in the street , people make music in the street . |
| 7 | Murdered people do haunt their murderers , I believe . |
| 8 | A lot of us ignore the fact that people do have their own development and they want to do something a bit more exciting , but unless we 're given the opportunity ask will they want to demonstrate it ? |
| 9 | For Christie 's , such sales help raise our European profile as well as assert London as an international centre of the art market . |
| 10 | Chub do have their days when the old grey matter works overtime and you will have to put on your own thinking cap and go through a whole array of angling techniques , usual and offbeat ones , before you hit on the right one to catch him . |
| 11 | Feeding on carrion might seem strange behaviour for a bee , but in fact many tropical species do supplement their pollen-and-honey diet in this way . |
| 12 | I sold my teddy bears for £18 to help keep my mummy alive |