Example sentences of "[adv] do [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arguing from silence is dangerous , but had he played a significant role in Cnut 's Scandinavian wars of c.1025-8 ( see below ) information about it might have been expected to survive , and so he perhaps did disappear from the scene soon after 1023 . |
| 2 | I mean before they came to the centre I think people felt Save The Children only did work in countries abroad . |
| 3 | So do think of that . |
| 4 | Erm and I would I would want to try and do some er organize some press coverage at that time for the losers as well as for the winner so that a a and one of the things when we select the participants , er the entrants , er we will not have them all coming from the same school or from the same area , even if the five best entrants all do come from the same school . |
| 5 | The effects were felt beyond Inverkeithing , for the manager of the Cunningham interest in the eastern burghs of the district , Captain James Cunningham , was clear that it was essential to have John Main and Colin Sharp back in their places before the election and Haldane 's friends removed , as ‘ it not only does harm in that one town , but in all the rest ; Haldane 's interest is cryed up , & the Haldanes can do every thing is the general talk … ’ |
| 6 | Enjoyment obviously does derive from performing successfully for the side but being determined to enjoy the occasion , be it a wet Northampton Monday or a NatWest Final , should n't be reliant solely on personal success . |
| 7 | Still , it was the hangover of that piece of moral cowardice at Lochgair station , along with everything else , that led to me feeling so profoundly awful with myself that evening ( after the train finally did get into Queen Street and I walked back , soaked and somehow no longer hungry , in the rain to the empty flat in Grant Street ) , that mum had to call me there , because I had n't been able to bring myself to phone her and dad … and I still managed to feign sleep and a little shame and a smattering of sorrow and reassure her as best I could that really I was all right , yes of course , not to worry , I was fine , thanks for calling … and so of course after that felt even worse . |
| 8 | When Mike finally did collapse after two dreadful weeks , it was clear that we either had to give up , or drastically change our approach . |
| 9 | When a change finally did occur in 1929 it was for the worse . |
| 10 | When the signal for launching crusade finally did come to the Fists ' astropaths , Battle Brothers would depart in warpships from the jutting sword-deck — to return , perhaps years later in realspace time , as heroes … and some as cripples needing reconstruction by the experts in the Apothacarion … and others as honoured corpses , or perhaps only in the form of retrieved progenoid glands from which new Marines would be kindled . |
| 11 | But if things finally do get to them , the women succumb first . |
| 12 | In many cases the shabashniki have abandoned their official jobs and are organized into independent teams who no longer do work for private individuals but work virtually as ‘ troubleshooters ’ for public concerns which have run into problems . |
| 13 | However the men generally do appear to be very immoral and dishonest . |
| 14 | A report circulated in the spring of 1939 admitted that the camps ‘ became slave markets where people with the best intentions in the world went to help one child , yet unconsciously did harm to many by looking them over and rejecting them ’ . |
| 15 | Do you know sweetheart I have often wondered since I knew about things whether a brother or sister ever did love with such a love as ours . |
| 16 | ‘ No , I do n't think he ever did score with that one . |
| 17 | In fact , I do n't think there was a time when you ever did belong to me . ’ |
| 18 | For example , in the sentence People have and still do disagree on this matter the form disagree can not follow both have and do . |
| 19 | The correct sentence would be People have disagreed and still do disagree on this matter . |
| 20 | I always do sit with my hands in my pockets , except when I am in the company of my sisters , my cousins , or my aunts ; and they kick up such a shindy — I should say expostulate so eloquently on the subject — that I have to give up and take them out — my hands I mean . ’ |
| 21 | The only good thing , the only good thing about La the only good thing about Labour is that they would have brought back student grants so if I ever , if I ever do go to university then I 'll get lots of money . |
| 22 | For informal workers who genuinely do work for themselves the freedom of being your own boss does not often amount to much amid growing competition and soaring inflation . |
| 23 | But , but their productivity still did rise within the mutual aid , of the poor . |
| 24 | I think he once did say to me that he was very disturbed at how much ‘ coke ’ David was doing and that it had got to the point where he did n't hide it from deFries , whereas he did for quite a while at first . |
| 25 | IBM always did go for the best , aiming for the long term . |
| 26 | A special case where the promise — and , indeed , the price — usually does appear in the headline is in direct response advertising of the ‘ offer ’ type which is so prevalent in the Sunday colour supplements . |
| 27 | Philosophy always has begun from Athens on from a recognition of the extraordinary facts of the diversity of human belief and attitude , on moral questions , on questions of social organization , on questions as to the ultimate nature of the universe , the destiny of man , and all such things , the most astonishing diversity of belief and attitude has prevailed and still does prevail amongst people . |
| 28 | As no one individual or institution in the Czech Republic has $10 million to spend on a painting , the collection would almost certainly be split and leave Bohemia if it ever does come under the hammer . |
| 29 | To make matters worse , because he always does fail in his attempts to improve the situation , the sufferer convinces himself that he has nothing to look forward to but a lifetime of misery . |
| 30 | Not everyone , however , fully accepts that TNC involvement in Third World agriculture always does lead to food insecurity . |