Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] do [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had n't thought about that do you know , I reckon that Sister Josephine erm behind all this , she wanted that hall and she and Father used to talk about this you see they want to extend the church back and do away with the car parking area as well , oh that 's alright , but erm sort of ca n't see any point in it , I mean congregations are going down , they 're not increasing , the church is big enough for what is necessary I would of thought would n't you ? |
| 2 | Is there any basis for that do you imagine ? |
| 3 | First she was on her own with Rose and some of the women , then they sent for the midwife , who did n't turn up , and only after that did they think to come for me . |
| 4 | After that do you fail so to keep him ? ’ |
| 5 | And er after this did you move back to Edinburgh ? |
| 6 | What 's that , half past eight did you say ? |
| 7 | She said , ‘ How much of this did you do ? ’ |
| 8 | What I ever did to annoy Old Saul , whether it was the heat that made him especially cantankerous , whether Agnes really had kicked him in the head when she arrived , as Mrs Clamp says-none of this do I know . |
| 9 | I 'll say to her any yeah oh yeah , if we if we get to the station at five past three do you reckon we 'll get the three o'clock train ? |
| 10 | Bearing that in mind , which of these do you think you 'll have to give up ? |
| 11 | Will he eat one of these do you think ? |
| 12 | It 's not , it 's a very good approximation most of the time , it 's an awful lot better than erm you know , wh what sort of current do you think 's flowing in that Joe ? |
| 13 | If someone asks ‘ How much of X do we have in stock ? ’ they want to know how many of a specific item there are on the premises — both on the shop floor and in the warehouse or storeroom . |
| 14 | Least of all do I recognise the fairness and balance of the current Tory legislation which you claim . |
| 15 | Isabel sat in her room , behind a locked door , and her sister knew neither what she did there or what she was planning to do and least of all did she know why . |
| 16 | Not until the end of 1981 did she begin to fight free of their domination . |
| 17 | O H now how many of those do you want ? |
| 18 | Erm and ho how many of those do you expect to have agreed as fixed prices at er this stage of of the development ? |
| 19 | At times like that do you despair , turn to drink to try and coax back the muse ? |
| 20 | Well it is , it is , yeah , it 's a , there 's a little of flesh but nothing like you know it was when his foot got like that do you see what I mean ? |
| 21 | Carrots and meat and good stuff , and then they used to put a little flour to thicken it like this do you see , with a big spoon like that . |
| 22 | Above all do you have the knowledge and experience to provide all of these needs ? |
| 23 | In vain did he protest to the shopkeeper that it was all a joke . |
| 24 | In vain did he protest that he was here on holiday and nothing else . |
| 25 | Tolkien 's idea of poetry mirrored his ideas on language ; in neither did he think sound should be divorced from sense . |
| 26 | I was gon na do look in that did you say you looked in that Argos book for darts did you , or ? |
| 27 | Only in 1532 did he alight on the policy of the royal supremacy : the idea that the English monarchy had enjoyed an unlimited authority over the church within its realm for centuries and only now needed to start exercising this on a more regular basis . |
| 28 | And for the workers there was an actual decline in real wages during the FFYP , and only in 1940 did they recover their 1928 level . |
| 29 | He held his last press conference in 1955 , but no more than in 1946 did he resign himself to a permanent retirement . |
| 30 | Only in 1978 did it become apparent that both effects are necessary , but also sufficient , to produce the observed phenomena . |