Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] do [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the exercise about to be described was a theoretical model , not an empirical test , its results indicate that positive NPV opportunities probably do exist in some ‘ cash cows ’ and that an integration of DCF and portfolio-grid analyses may lead to a more careful and sophisticated use of portfolio grids . |
| 2 | Although it once guaranteed good quality , now no one company holds an exclusive licence over the use of the name and the quality of the knives really does vary from brand to brand . |
| 3 | Ian Wright really does behave like a shithead . |
| 4 | No one any longer seriously believes that Marie and Eleanor actually did preside over such tribunals . |
| 5 | Edward never did get in touch with Sally again . |
| 6 | Crime certainly did pay by the looks of it . |
| 7 | The difference in accident estimates between right and left turns , t(22)=1.89 , p<0.05 , suggests that subjects may indeed have used feelings of risk inappropriately when giving their accident estimates ( alternatively , it is of course possible that the right turns used in this study actually did come from objectively more risky junctions than the left turns ) . |
| 8 | When a change finally did occur in 1929 it was for the worse . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | IBM always did go for the best , aiming for the long term . |
| 11 | This illustrates a point discussed later ( p. 181 ) that repeat overdoses often do occur despite apparent improvement in patients ' social circumstances . |
| 12 | ‘ Pete really did go for her then . |
| 13 | So we 're not saying that every time somebody dreams about an umbrella it means erm that , wh what he was saying is er that kind of visual symbolism often does stand for in this case erm the male genital , but it need not . |
| 14 | The Universe actually did begin with a Big Bang . |
| 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 | Not everyone , however , fully accepts that TNC involvement in Third World agriculture always does lead to food insecurity . |
| 17 | In terms of overload , though , the Macmillan years probably did add to the problem . |
| 18 | Not because I actually felt at home with all the ‘ weirdos ’ in there but because the shop really did look like my nan 's house . |
| 19 | The group really does operate as a group and you can attend all the social functions without feeling that you have to pair off . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've grown to realise over the past few weeks just how much the place really does mean to you , ’ he said quietly . |
| 21 | Alex teaches Peter Grant how to do look like Holly ( or is it Eric Morecombe ) |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But if things finally do get to them , the women succumb first . |
| 24 | We shall see , by the end of this book , that a simple and practical distinction between fabliau and exemplum can be drawn , but that the same stories often do service in both categories . |
| 25 | But our causal beliefs typically do pertain to and are explanations of single events . |
| 26 | Things really do seem to be looking up , and we can now discount all those gloom-merchants who assured us it would all be over before Christmas . |
| 27 | ‘ So things really do seem to be sorting themselves out , do n't they ? ’ said Rachel , a touch of surprise in her tone . |
| 28 | Oh dear , the wheels really do seem to be coming off Ollie at the moment . |
| 29 | She points out that the cash squeeze could be relaxed quickly if Brazilian inflation really does perish from a single shot . |
| 30 | Most of us spend our lives believing that the best marriages are those rare unions where two hearts really do beat as one . |