Example sentences of "[pron] do [prep] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 After some unhelpful discussion , which did at least confirm that the main concern of the United Kingdom delegation was that of discovery , that was dealt with in Article 23 , Article 1 retaining some residual signs of the drafting history .
2 Better sacks have bound seams which do at least slow down the leaking process .
3 To hear Scotland , for example , referred to as ‘ England ’ is a venerable howler which does at least represent the unequal nature of a relationship .
4 Now , what are you doing to really see this is getting off the ground ?
5 Ultimately the Marino family surrendered the site to the governor who sold it on to another Milanese businessman , Carlo Omodeo , who did at least allow a member of the Marino family to live in part of it — at an agreed rent .
6 that 's right , yeah , so you do at least get one
7 He remembered how , as a child , by dozens of small acts of perversity , he had brought his mother 's wrath down upon himself , so that she did at least notice his existence .
8 We ourselves are to some extent part of this problem , but we do at least live and work in the village full time .
9 Dying inside , she wanted to cry , and if his words did nothing else they did at least stiffen her disintegrating spine .
10 Quite often these royal summit meetings produced as little as their much-vaunted 20th-century counterparts , but , like them , they did at least keep open channels of communication .
11 If neither Herbert Wilcox , Michael Balcon nor Victor Saville started off with much in the way of imaginative flair , they did at least know what was required to build successful enterprises .
12 Although the output reductions are a worry in themselves , they do at least suggest that the industry is not about to start laying down a large supply of surplus whisky that could upset prices in the future .
13 But , unlike the rest of the rich world 's sheep , they do at least stand on their own four feet without any government support .
14 But although by themselves they do not take us this far , they do at least point the way .
15 The following excerpts may not clarify the best form of action should that occur , but they do at least point up some of the dilemmas .
16 ( I am not arguing that the Americans do not themselves engage in all manner of protectionist devices , but merely note that they do at least have an intrinsic belief in the benefits of Adam Smith 's hidden hand , a view which is not wholly shared on the Continent of Europe . )
17 Although the various social sciences take different interests in such matters and differ also on how such an understanding of them can be achieved , they do at least share this common source of data ; that is , what the members of society have produced , and are producing , in the way of artifacts , social groups , institutions , documents of various kinds , systems of conflict and co-operation , records , and so on .
18 But they do at least survive , and after a period of time will be able to regrow their tails .
19 Whilst peers may not read everything written in their field , they do at least know who is writing .
20 Whilst peers may not read everything written in their field , they do at least know who is writing .
21 If it was sad that in England in 1963 his form finally drifted away , he did at least give his last fine Test innings , an unbeaten 74 , to the Manchester crowd , a happy choice of venue in view of his connection with Radcliffe and the university .
22 He did n't take a positivistic line and argue that the sentence ‘ God exists ’ is literally meaningless , but he did at least think that it was , expressed a proposition which no reasonable person would accept .
23 I do n't imagine that he felt any easier immediately I applied the hot blankets , but suggestion is a powerful weapon in the armoury of the doctor , and he did at least manage a smile .
24 He did at least take two more wickets himself , emerging as a five-wicket demon in the match , the standard of England 's slip catching being restored at the hands of Hick and Atherton .
25 To judge by Vincent 's subsequent letter of 15 October , it did at least bring them back into contact .
26 While the procedure was to some extent artificial and led to conclusions that did not always stand up to later study , it did at least mean that the different forms of early Christian teaching could now be admitted for discussion , and the possibility of real conflict between opposing views recognised as a natural and proper element in the development .
27 And while there were crudely economic motives in , for example , sending Hitchcock to reconstruct English and Oriental settings in Italy and Germany for his first film , The Pleasure Garden ( 1925 ) , it did at least show that he was as aware as the Film Society 's membership of the backwardness of British films .
28 It would hardly have been possible for it to support beauty and extravagance and pleasure at the expense of mere survival , but it did at least hint that such a view could be held , and its mere admission of this possibility was to Clara profoundly satisfying .
29 Everything seems to have gone wrong for poor old Gooch since his marriage broke up , culminating in that bizarre dismissal on Monday , but he does at least have one big advantage over the other members of the trio .
30 But it does at least prompt the question whether the suppression in them , not now of individuality but of individual interest in the sense of ownership , is only likely to be volunteered where the amount of that interest is seen by the prospective volunteer as marginal to his other interests , concerns and obligations .
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