Example sentences of "[conj] do [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He said : ‘ The nub of the matter is that MacQuillan never had the money to buy a paper in Fleet Street or do battle with the unions . ’
2 The schemes that do exist in the private market for pensions are related to purchasing power — so inequalities in earnings will be reflected in life after retirement , whilst those without the power to buy a pension will become increasingly dependent on the low rates obtainable from state pensions and means tested benefits .
3 Nevertheless , the greater majority of bream waters hold bream that do roll at the surface sometime in the course of feeding .
4 Partly because of the lack of predators , many island birds have lost the ability to fly ; after all , flying requires enormous energy , and on islands , those that do take to the air could in theory be blown out to sea .
5 The few that did live near the quarry tended to wander off hurriedly in the opposite direction whenever they saw a nome .
6 Well St Aldate 's in the Civil War is quite a problem to talk about really , erm in half an hour , because it 's so enmeshed in the story of Oxford in the Civil War which is a long , very interesting one , so what I 'm going to try and do is erm to pick out some of the local landmarks that did survive in the 17th century and relate them to what we know about some of the people and in this short half an hour , just try and picture what it was like to live in St Aldate 's during the civil war .
7 Oh I told you did n't I that er the fellow with the Portakabins that does work for the B B C , he had the Portakabin and then your tables are two pound each , and your chairs range from fifty pence to one pound fifty .
8 A note about symbols : the usual convention for the syllabic mark is that it should be placed below symbols that do not come below the line , for example , but above a symbol that does come below the line , for example .
9 And anything that does come from the you know the system ?
10 Well oh , this one l this there 's one that does look like the one on St Peter 's Road .
11 Do n't use too many transparencies and do talk to the audience and not to the screen .
12 The earliest I have found relates to Henry de Lornes , in the year 1203 , when he paid 16s and a palfrey for 1½ yokes of land in Halling and Cuxton and another in 1271 , when Walter , son of John de Boghurst granted land to Thomas Heryng of Halling for which he was to pay a seam of corn and do service to the chief lord .
13 , aha , just basically I mean how do you find working and , you know rearing children , bringing up a family , and doing your housework , do you , how do you organize it , do you find that you get up early and do work in the morning , will you do a bit of work when you go home or , does your partner help out with the work ?
14 For , while editorial priorities and earth-shrinking technologies can and do work against the interests of the war 's officialdom , the degree to which even the less servile sections of the media provide a platform for coherent dissenting views is incredibly limited .
15 Irrespective of personal belief or disbelief , an unaccountable number of people have believed and do believe in the spiritual aspects of human life , and therefore their actions , attitudes and interpretations of events have been influenced accordingly .
16 It is known that both cannibalistic and non-cannibalistic individuals can and do develop from the same batch of eggs .
17 I fear that it will cause great panic in the City and in America and do harm to the Allies .
18 Boxers can and do die in the ring .
19 Individuals could and did suffer at the hands of individual kings .
20 On the other hand , the question of aid to Malta had been decided beforehand , and did go through the National Assembly .
21 One line of his broadcast — ‘ Now it is very cold and we can not stay in our house ’ — hints at a crisis that nearly closed Dovercourt and did result in the evacuation of Pakefield , the overspill camp near Lowestoft .
22 But each could and did act for the other when necessary ; and English diplomats abroad frequently corresponded with both .
23 Richards observed : ‘ Uncontrolled building of the suburban kind may and does add to the general chaos of our time , but the suburb at its best has virtues peculiarly designed to bring comfort and fulfilment to many . ’
24 He reported that Coirm , being drunk by the Irish instead of wine , produces headaches , is a compound of bad juices , and does harm to the muscles .
25 It is a tribute to the tribunals that the technicality at the heart of the appellate process in these tribunals can and does coexist with the relative informality in atmosphere and with procedural flexibility .
26 Every community will have its secrets , and every individual in it will have views that they would not normally express to others , but do express to the researcher .
27 The position is the same if the offender is committed for some offences under Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.38 and for some under Criminal Justice Act 1967 , s.56 ; the restrictions in Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.133 have no application to the offences subject to committal under section 38 , as the Crown Court can sentence for those offences as if the offender has just been convicted of them on indictment , but do apply to the offences committed under section 56 .
28 The first of those points is the principle of a Greater York dimension to the structure plan , erm we 'll all probably be aware that in the original structure plan the Secretary of State was n't prepared to accept a Greater York dimension in the structure plan , but did accept with the support of the district councils on the first alteration , the inclusion of a Greater York dimension .
29 And a new book claims William Shakespeare wrote none of his plays but did look after the costumes and take the money on the door .
30 This does not fall within the class of cases in respect of which a corporation can maintain an action , but does fall within the second class commented on by Pollock C.B. in his judgment in the case of the Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Co .
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