Example sentences of "they do " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work they do is an inspiring example of what loving community care is all about . |
| 2 | Differences exist between the media of tempera and oil , or oil and acrylic , but they do not have the importance of contrasts in other material processes . |
| 3 | However , if biographies of artists are carefully examined , it will be found that they do not necessarily contain much art criticism at all ; a biographer may prefer not to express personal views about the artist 's work ; a book 's main thrust may be to describe the artist 's own aims and ideas . |
| 4 | The airmail letters which he exchanges with his liberal friends in England tell a worse story of them than they do of him , and hark back in fine style to that golden time when such friends used to kneel in London mosques with Michael X and other celebrities , squinting up at the Heavyweight Champion of the World 's effulgent arse . |
| 5 | Authors are not supposed to avenge themselves in their writings , but they do , and if they were to be prevented , there would be far fewer books . |
| 6 | The poets Czeslaw Milosz and Donald Davie have been bothered by the insufficiency and irresponsibility of the lyric genre , and it could be felt that Kundera goes further than they do in denouncing the lyric , and fares worse . |
| 7 | ‘ Even your shiksas go down the drain when they do n't tickle your fancy anymore . ’ |
| 8 | So in earnest are they that they do n't even recognise that being in earnest is the act . |
| 9 | Levi 's paints actually manage to come to life as human beings in The Wrench , a less fanciful book which nevertheless claims that ‘ paints resemble us more than they do bricks . |
| 10 | By the end of it you 're no all that sure whether teachers get long holidays or no ( they do , though most of them have to work hard for it ) , and whether parents should go and fuck themselves . |
| 11 | They do n't direct us to the late survival of a gypsy paradise . |
| 12 | Not that I would have attempted to scale the academic heights of an Oxford or a Cambridge , of course , but they do do some very stimulating courses at the Birmingham Polytechnic . |
| 13 | They do great things because they are great , if the great things come along . |
| 14 | But these mortgage companies , they do n't want to know … |
| 15 | But they do n't want more money , ; it 's like me , is n't it ? |
| 16 | Most of your technical tutors will be seeing everything you do , and deriving what they need to know from it ; they do n't want to find you confused by criticism from senior students which might not be helpful to you at this point . |
| 17 | And young actors have a greater instinct these days for film than they do for the stage , though this is not to say that stage training is not equally important ; nevertheless as working actors we are getting more and more camera conscious in our acting and will continue to do so . |
| 18 | Without doubt they do . |
| 19 | In his analysis of the popular culture which appeared among the promoters of the Pro-Life Campaign , set up to achieve a constitutional ban on abortion in the Republic in 1983 , O'Carroll pin-points certain characteristics , which can be abbreviated here : a monolithic and absolute view of the world , with its accompanying intolerance , derived in part from the direct consultation of clerics and politicians on public moral issues and the subsequent failure to develop an ethos of public debate ; a localized belief system , rooted in family and communal authority and issuing in a spirit of absolute conformity ; sexual prudery , a product partly of the inheritance problem ; and the development of acute anxiety when such beliefs — inhering partly as they do in their practice and shaping of society — are threatened . |
| 20 | But Roman catholic adoption agencies , the source for the majority of children awaiting adoption , are not obliged to assign baptized Roman catholic children to such couples , and whether they do or not is not a matter of public knowledge . |
| 21 | What is required , he wrote , is to find an outlet for those energies , for those needs and desires , so that they do not turn inward and rend you to pieces , an outlet , he wrote , but never to imagine that what we do is ever going to be an everlasting achievement . |
| 22 | Many of the interiors created by the designers of such facilities are as forbidding as the old-fashioned spit-and-sawdust pub ; any lingering atmosphere is swept away in a barrage of stained wood and fake Victoriana , and any casual visitors made to feel inordinately guilty if they do not , alas , wish to eat . |
| 23 | Dorset Fire Safety Committee senior fire prevention officer Ian Clark said : ‘ One of the biggest problems with hotels is that they do not maintain the requirements of the Fire Certificate . ’ |
| 24 | But write nice things they do . |
| 25 | ‘ You 'm do n't want to be believing what they do write in they newspapers ma'am ’ , exclaimed the sergeant , but his visitor was not listening . |
| 26 | Make sure they do n't create too much mischief . |
| 27 | Except he was a German and they do n't play cricket . |
| 28 | I know what they do in there . |
| 29 | ‘ 'Course they do . |
| 30 | ‘ They do you very well at ‘ The Hollies ’ . |