Example sentences of "[noun sg] do [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Alexander , the King 's son , who was at that time twelve years old , called out to his father : ‘ What an excellent horse do they lose for want of skill and courage to manage him ! ’
2 Erm so erm th the cheapest er fuel at the moment is gas , you know , that 's , that 's why er a lot of the erm er er generators are now moving to towards gas er erm er generation er wh which is fine for as long as the gas exists but , you know , another , give it another ten fifteen years , and our North Sea gas will have gone you see so , so erm you have to ask well how much do you , weight do you put on market forces and how much in say , in the energy business , ought you to be thinking longer term ?
3 What sort of plough did you use for the competition ?
4 How much a week rent do you pay for ground ?
5 We think of the spoken language , the written language , what in practice do you mean by ‘ language ’ , is it an instruction you type on a keyboard , or what in terms of a computer ?
6 But to survive an arrow a mile from a road with a killer around to make sure I did n't make it … where in one 's mind did one search for the will to survive that ?
7 So obsessed was he with Mary 's charm and the Casket Letters , that it did not occur to him to ask the much more prosaic but crucially important question : what effect did it have on her kingdom , in this age of religious and political upheaval and trauma , to be saddled with a ruler who shut herself off from reality whenever reality became difficult ?
8 1 Why did all the children laugh at Julie on the first day she went to her new school ? 2 How do you think Julie felt that day ? 3 Did you feel sorry for her then ? 4 Did you feel sorry for her later in the story ? 5 When Julie was left tied to the lamp post was it fair , unfair , cruel … or what ? 6 Whose fault was it that Julie and Bee stopped seeing each other ? 7 Why did Julie get hurts and what effect did it have on Bee ? 8 What were your feelings at the end ?
9 What sort of effect did it have on you that kind of directness ?
10 What effect did it have on his private life ?
11 Which college did you go to ?
12 • How much automation do you need on your fryer ?
13 What instrument do you know about do you think that uses something other than the treble clef and a bass clef ?
14 What light does it throw on the extent of public information about parties and programmes , and on the nature of public support for parties ?
15 mhm Does it make any sense to put in the same numbers _ does it add to the attraction from a statistical point of view , the likelihood to win ?
16 He cupped Luce 's cheek with his palm and smiled into her eyes , making her heart do what felt like a series of back somersaults .
17 We have a need for regional economic initiatives and what help do we get from the British Government , right ?
18 Now , Professor , can you think very carefully about those noises … which side of the corridor did they seem to be coming from ? ’
19 What benefit do you get from a library ?
20 What , what about row , row row , row , row , the boat gently down the stream , merrily , merrily , merrily , merrily life is but a dream Ant do you wan na sing row , row , row , row the boat gently down the stream ?
21 Which commandment did he consider to be the greatest ?
22 And what kind of work did you do with the tenants ' association ?
23 Child : What work did you do in the school holidays ?
24 Yeah , how do f , in terms of the police , I mean how do , what kind of work do they do in d in response to the crime ?
25 And what influence did they have on the Walsall Football Club ?
26 As a band , how much influence did you have over what came out on those recordings ?
27 divide them into neat piles , place in oven proof dish do you wan na do it that way ?
28 Just tables set and you just sat er in the Hall Do you mean in the Hall here ?
29 I 'd be interested to know the lady who mentioned that , er she got help from friends , what sort of help did she get from her friends ?
30 To get total communication how much relevance do you put on the message ?
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