Example sentences of "[pers pn] do [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | county and see whether the family wish currently if it would not benefit from er er being carried er in certain areas and I do apologise for the Chief Fire Officer if throw away to Martin er in any way being thought of as no regrets I am sure . |
| 2 | So I do apologise for the confusion . |
| 3 | So I do feel for the chump who , late for a smart dinner party , dashes into the local off-licence and forks out £50 for a bottle of Mouton Rothschild 1988 . |
| 4 | I ca n't say it 's been marvellously successful but I do know for a fact that the conditions of the working class was improved tremendously by organizations in the thing which has come to be described as trade-unionism . |
| 5 | I do apologize for the delay . |
| 6 | But I did make for the baize door a little more quickly than on my way in , and in the semi-darkness stumbled over one of the wellingtons , kicking it half-way across the floor . |
| 7 | Of course , I did wonder for a while if Lu … ’ |
| 8 | I did work for a petrol company . |
| 9 | ‘ Actually , hard as it may be for you to believe , I did come for a reason . ’ |
| 10 | So I mean in the shop I , I did sell for the National Trust once but I s I sold them the . |
| 11 | Show some compassion for your members from the lower divisions and prove to the fans that you do care for the game itself , otherwise , after Wigan 's performance recently , rugby league will get some extra support . |
| 12 | If you do advertise for a companion it is advisable to use a box number and also to take up references . |
| 13 | If you do opt for a place in the countryside however , be certain that no farm livestock is in the vicinity either , as sheep especially may prove an irresistible subject of curiosity for dogs which have not encountered them before , and this can escalate to sheep-worrying . |
| 14 | Although she did call for a fuller apprenticeship for women , Amelia McLean did not argue ( nor did anyone else ) that the Monotype made old-fashioned apprentice ships redundant , and that by a historical reversal of the usual procedure , women compositors in 1910 actually controlled a skilled process while men did not . |
| 15 | ‘ We do go for a certain amount of fragility . |
| 16 | Little accurate information is available on population sizes in the middle ages but such evidence as we do have for the UK suggests that there was a six- or sevenfold increase between AD 1100 and 1780 , with alternating lengthy periods of rapid and slow growth . |
| 17 | They are excluded from using more land , and they often work onerous hours on the land which they do own for a pittance . |
| 18 | This time he did reach for a cigarette and light it up . |
| 19 | Columbia Square was built on principles similar to the Thanksgiving and Peabody buildings ; but it did allow for a club room and a covered area where children might play on wet days , where Roberts had avoided communal amenities , questioning whether the working class would have time to enjoy them . |
| 20 | This time , he does not expect to unseat the Tory incumbent , Mr Robert Adley , who got 35,656 votes in 1987 — against Labour 's 5,174 and the SDP 's 13,282 — but he does hope for a big swing to Labour . |
| 21 | He does feel for the young man . |
| 22 | ‘ It does help for a referee to have played the game . |