Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [conj] do [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this only happens if your debtor wants to defend the action or makes you an offer which you can and do refuse . |
| 2 | We are committed to making any changes that may be required to ensure that we can and do regulate effectively . |
| 3 | We can and do make use of all kinds of resources in our own ways : we learn how to draw stickmen and produce our own graphics , we write and record our own audio dialogues , some institutions produce the bulk of their own print materials . |
| 4 | Against this interpretation lies the evidence that we can and do say , when appropriate , things like ‘ Of course he consented to the operation , but that does not entitle you to perform it since he is just a child ’ ( or he did not know how dangerous it is ) . |
| 5 | What is clear is that business managers are pulled in many directions and that they must and do make choices among alternative objectives ’ . |
| 6 | But sixteen was a man and when he had begun to drown as a man there was nothing they could or did do to step in and help . |
| 7 | For these reasons — their pattern of settlement , the ease , low cost and low risk of meeting obligations — Zuwaya were able to still think of themselves as nomads : they were wrong , but from time to time they could and did regard some of their social arrangements as unchanging , inert . |
| 8 | Committee chairmen had greater microphone power : they could and did interrupt speakers , overriding their speeches with voluble and sometimes lengthy rehearsals of facts and figures ; they intervened to answer rhetorical questions or to explain that they were irrelevant . |
| 9 | These were sturdy little cars and although used mainly on the Norbury — Purley and Thornton Heath lines in the early days , they could and did work anywhere on the system . |
| 10 | However , in emphasising their dependence it is only too easy to diminish what they can and do contribute . |
| 11 | Far dimmer and simpler than ours , but they certainly exist , and it is now recognised that they can and do suffer from stress . |
| 12 | The better off may use some private systems from time-to-time but they are still supported by a network of public systems they can and do fall back on . |
| 13 | What he did not mean is that women lack rationality ; they can and do deliberate . |
| 14 | In any attempt to assess and understand the use and function , the economic and social benefits of community languages in the restricted domains of the work place and in the public services i.e. outside the domain of the household , it seems imperative that one look at the sociolinguistic and socioeconomic profiles of the different speech communities and the uses they can and do put their languages to . |
| 15 | Naturally the judges ' tariff is not writ in stone ; it may and does change over time , so that sentences passed in 1900 are of little or no value in ascertaining the tariff in 1992 . |
| 16 | It could and did reach conclusions upon policy , but the final decision rested with the Queen , who seldom attended meetings and might easily ignore their conclusions . |
| 17 | While it could and did allow that the discoveries of natural science and of philological and literary criticism of the text could cast light upon the meaning of the Bible , it held that the proper responsibility of the theologian is to interpret the Bible out of itself . |
| 18 | It could and did reject , revise and remake legislation on the floor of the House ( such as the 1858 India Act or the 1867 Reform Act ) . |
| 19 | He could and did talk at times as if he were simply continuing Schleiermacher 's programme , and described Schleiermacher as his predecessor in the matter of method . |
| 20 | The evidence from Charles the Bald 's reign is surprisingly clear : he could and did intervene thus — on numerous occasions and in counties that were vitally important politically and militarily . |
| 21 | What he could and did do , throughout the Algiers year , was to strengthen the CFLN 's position inside and outside France so that , whenever the operation began , the CFLN would be in the best position to preempt Allied attempts to marginalize it . |
| 22 | He was fascinated by horses — so fascinated that he came to be called ‘ The Man who Loved to Draw Horses , ’ although he could and did draw a wide range of other domestic animals . |
| 23 | But he could and did hold a fringe meeting with the Bow Group , where he gave the becoming speech of a statesman . |
| 24 | She had always resented Luke , and feared the way he made her feel — because she must have sensed from the beginning the power he could and did have over her ; because he had deprived her of himself when he had had her dismissed from that very first job back in South Africa ; because something had led him to misjudge and despise her , and he was unable to see the truth ; because she had always known that he could break her heart … |
| 25 | Although Terry was a steady and capable defender , he could and did play at inside-forward . |
| 26 | He could and did play a decisive role . |
| 27 | He usually appeared at centre-half but , when the management or playing policy required it , he could and did produce constructive , driving performances in both the wing-half berths . |
| 28 | On 22nd July , Major Wood came to the Wallowa to investigate the killing , and reported Joseph as saying that ‘ the valley was more sacred to him than ever before , and he would and did claim it now as recompense for the life taken . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The mind , taking no notice of itself , is deluded to think it can and doth conceive bodies … without the mind . ’ |
| 30 | The Survey itself lacks the funding to underpin complete systematic re-mapping , but it can and does make use of information gained in the course of university research , in the pursuit of its refinement and maintenance of the map , and in pursuing research of strategic or economic significance . |