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Example sentences of "[adv] do [vb infin] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	Erm I perhaps do have some sympathy for Harrogate 's position .
2	The patterns of speech are rooted in a society where men literally do have more power than women , and indeed power over women .
3	But the monetary authorities in most advanced countries normally do make such contingency plans , and therefore the administration lag is unlikely to be excessive .
4	by the way if we ever did do that stay with aunty Mary , right , then she came back with us
5	Well I always do come this way !
6	What develops may and usually does have some similarity to what was danced as a student .
7	She probably did remember that incident on the beach .
8	Of course , this a justified objection ; and I am ready to concede that in most historical examples one might like to point out things probably did happen that way round .
9	That , and we 've had this in the past , where I would say that people that live in Yarbury North and South probably do earn less and live in houses that probably are , do n't have as big gardens and things like that , so the natu the nature of the is that they probably do earn less money erm but I I do n't consider those to be ghettos at all .
10	Although visibility remains a problem I really do think this repositioning is an important step forward .
11	I really do like that hat !
12	I really do appreciate all kindness you have given to me , Jean .
13	‘ You really do need some sleep , do n't you ? ’
14	I really do see this age as a time to widen horizons .
15	He really did love this land .
16	" I 've been proving to Graham I really did have some wine and it smashed . "
17	The ‘ false dawn of courtesy ’ was over and the pupils really did accept each other .
18	The shape of the group really does give some impression of an arrow !
19	The five-way selector deals out all the sounds you would expect to find and the tone control really does add more sparkle , rather than ( as is so often the case ) rendering everything tinny and harsh .
20	The movie that provoked most debate around rape and its representation before The Accused , was Lamont Johnson 's 1976 film Lipstick , which at least did make some attempt to make connections between the rape and the wider social implications of how society constructs images of women .
21	‘ We never did finish that weeding , did we ?
22	Admittedly , the ‘ eat shit — a million flies ca n't be wrong ’ argument never did hold much water , but when every single person in the place is singing ‘ Altogether Now ’ or ‘ Love See No Colour ’ , waving their arms and jumping about , with sweat dripping from the walls , you 'd have to be a hell of a snob not to be slightly moved .
23	‘ On my soul , ’ sighed Thomas , injured but patient , ‘ 1 never did see any fellow could find all the devil 's arguments like you .
24	But he never did ask any man for directions ; he walked and he walked .
25	Amoco spent tens of millions of dollars on the project but they never did find any oil in Madagascar .
26	Never did like that group …
27	‘ But men and women never do match each other in that kind of way — that 's life . ’
28	What 's funny about it is , they actually do like each other ; they just do n't realise that both of them have the same views in everything .
29	Convincing evidence that animals actually do operate this way comes from James Serpell of the University of Cambridge ( Animal Behaviour , vol 30 , p 1244 ) , who has been studying the aggressive behaviour of nine species of tropical parrots of the genus Trichoglossus .
30	So , although it is tragic that every therapist is now hearing more and more from their patients about the way they were abused in the past , the fact that it is being brought out into the open and talked about publicly does bring some relief to those who until recently thought that their case was an isolated one .