Example sentences of "[coord] do [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , it has already been shown that the tawny owl produces higher levels of modification than other species ( Raczynski & Ruprecht , 1974 ; Lowe , 1980 ) , so that caution is needed before generalizing too far on what owls do or do not do . |
| 2 | Small children have strong ideas about what mothers do or do not do ; my own adolescent children are very worried about what I might do in public to embarrass them . |
| 3 | The resulting ‘ subgovernments ’ ( Cater , 1964 , pp. 17–22 ) or ‘ iron triangles ’ have been seen as critical to an understanding of what governments actually do or do not do because of their permanence , the secrecy of their operations and the weak party system in the United States . |
| 4 | ‘ What you do or do not do is no concern of mine — ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Whatever we do or do n't do , our children will have to live with . ’ |
| 6 | Instead the spotlight is on what people actually do , or do n't do . |
| 7 | Remember , and keep remembering , that you are special because you are a person , not because you do ( or do n't do ) a particular job or because of what you do ( or do n't ) possess . |
| 8 | Please continue a positive attitude to gay issues , or do n't do it at all . |
| 9 | Either mean it , or do n't do it . ’ |
| 10 | Often there 's a lot of , that people erm do or do n't do that you , you ca n't erm go along with when people are wanting terminations of pregnancy or , or they 're thinking of leaving their husbands and going off with somebody else then you just have to listen to what they say and put the facts as you see them in front of them . |
| 11 | Anyway , you do n't have to act with me — I 'm Paradise Street , remember , we know all about what you police do or do n't do , and most of them drink . ’ |
| 12 | Yeah Bryony went if you , well she 's not so bad now she 's got over that phase where she refused to have her coat on , but if you 're trying to get her ready erm and she does n't want to get ready , she 'll say either go away or do n't do that to me if I 'm trying to get her coat on . |
| 13 | if he disagrees or do n't do anything , but I ca n't see how he ca n't leave it , can be without it , has to know |
| 14 | As regards to homework , I just got on with it myself or did n't do it at all . ’ |
| 15 | Before discussing the effect which the judicature Acts have had in combining Law and Equity in one court , it will be convenient to note some of the branches of Law in which Equity has made important additions to the Common Law and done work which the Common Law could or did not do . |
| 16 | It hardly mattered what her own husband did or did not do when his wife languished in bed , an invalid . |
| 17 | For instance , the last chapter may have inspired you to make some very definite statements based on things your parents did or did not do in their marriage . |
| 18 | Thus the name " Shakespeare " rigidly refers to Shakespeare , irrespective of whether we happen to be talking about what Shakespeare did or wrote , or did not do or write but might have done or written , i.e. about his actual or merely possible attributes . |
| 19 | For many groups , public-pressure group activity was no sign of their power , but it was a testament to the frustrated powerlessness of those who could not get the ear of government , still less their positive action — no matter what they did or did not do . |
| 20 | How can the Minister say that those people are not living in reasonably-rated areas — or did not do so , long before the introduction of the unified business rate ? |
| 21 | Whatever he did or did not do , Earl Siward was going to make trouble in Lothian . |
| 22 | But you know what I mean ; when a marriage or relationship is going wrong and it 's like everything that one person says or does n't say , or does or does n't do , seems to rub the other one up the wrong way . |
| 23 | Whether nature does or does not do the same thing is always tantalising , and sometimes revealing about the principles and mechanisms underlying the creation of structures . |
| 24 | Such an assumption requires the invocation of additional processes to explain precisely how what a child does or does not do in one setting might be related to the child 's performance in a different setting . |
| 25 | ‘ Threat ’ when used in this connection means ‘ an intimation by one to another that unless the latter does or does not do something the former will do something which the latter will not like . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm not particularly fond of the control layout , either ; all the pots in a row look a bit ‘ lumpy ’ and do n't do anything for the line of the body . |
| 27 | A lot of students go through the system and do n't do anything at all with their training . |
| 28 | ‘ If I go on holiday and do n't do some work , I feel it is quite reprehensible . |
| 29 | You do n't live in this country and do n't do business here . |
| 30 | If you know them very , very well and they criticise you and they say , do this and do n't do that , they can really help you . |