Example sentences of "[adv] do we [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Ma was always at her most unreasonable on do-days , and I must have known it was a do-day because not only did we have extra help in the house , but Nanny had been co-opted into the kitchen to make pastry .
2 Oh so do we want three weeks in France ?
3 Not only do we do that at United Biscuits , we also second one manager for every two thousand employees .
4 Not only do we feel disorientated with respect to our habits but also there are more objective measurements to indicate that the flight has disorganized us .
5 As it turns out not only do we find similar " meanings " coded into quite different formal behaviours but we also find that superficially similar formal behaviours may be coded to " say " quite different things .
6 Alright , not only do we have competing products on the farm , but we have joint products on the farm , in that if you rear sheep , sheep are not only used for the meat that they produce , but also the wheat the er , the wool that 's on , that 's on their backs .
7 Not only do we have inadequate time to deal with important issues , but there is a real risk that unless the other place does its job properly the measures will reach the statute book fundamentally flawed in terms of banding and the special problem of high property values in London and the south-east .
8 No sooner do we conquer one set of changes — then the next lot come around , ’ he said .
9 Not once did we get that rather unwilling pursed smile , the sly amused look down her nose .
10 But only internally do we know that .
11 Rarely do we set these prescriptions alongside one another and examine the total picture which emerges .
12 Rarely do we discuss this private world with a stranger .
13 How did we allow these destructive influences to kill our club ?
14 How did we get this piece .
15 Only then did we introduce some terminology .
16 How then do we get true beliefs of the sort that we could get by observation ?
17 How then do we get true beliefs by observation ?
18 Why then do we need two words , which help us to distinguish nationalism from ethnicity , though both are so closely identified today ?
19 Theresa just how do we justify that and then I want to hear from a lawyer about this .
20 How do we stop this ?
21 And how do we fix this on now ?
22 How d how do we make sure that the number on the bottom is the same ?
23 How do we make sure of that
24 How do we make direct contact with this mobile , fluid reality ?
25 How do we do that without spreading too widely the ability to make bombs ?
26 How do we do that ?
27 And how do we do that ?
28 ‘ And how do we do that with radios and telephone knocked out by the storm ? ’
29 How do we do that if the telephones are out ? ’ asked Rohmer .
30 Erm , so how do we do that with people ?
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