Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] do [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm I 'd like to be able to present something in front of me which prompts me a bit better than I do at the moment I tend to get lost in what 's in front of me . |
| 2 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
| 3 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
| 4 | Someone once said he 'd have known me anywhere by the voice but he 'd have passed me by in the street on account I look much better in person than I do on the telly . |
| 5 | She 's very concerned and the present line partial though it be , represents a a blight situation on that , on the , on potential er occupants of that line and certainly erm I find myself more in in er agreement with Darcy 's views than I do with the other two councillors of East Grinstead , that 's not er not secret |
| 6 | I feel more in common with the Reverend William Paley than I do with the distinguished modern philosopher , a well-known atheist , with whom I once discussed the matter at dinner . |
| 7 | I actually feel more at home in Britain and in the States and France than I do in the North . |
| 8 | ‘ We export more to France than we do to the entire 50 countries of the Commonwealth . |
| 9 | When most people possessed no clocks or watches but lived more in the countryside than they do today , they took far more note than we do of the various timings associated with plants and animals . |
| 10 | We should be looking to educate and train all people a lot more than we do at the moment where driving is concerned , so that from the very moment you pass your test you can feel confident , other people can feel confident and we can all have confidence on the road . |
| 11 | How far such resistance is possible varies according to the research methods employed but , generally speaking , we know more about the poor and the powerless than we do about the rich and the powerful . |
| 12 | We know more about the poor , who have to fill in forms of all kinds in order to receive benefits , than we do about the rich , who have to declare their tax position only to the taxman , in strict confidence . |
| 13 | The eighties remains an enigma — already we know more about the rise of the radical new Right than we do about the demise of the old Left . |
| 14 | If we could answer these , I feel we should know a lot more than we do about the earliest history of the place and the way it has grown . |
| 15 | We know much more about the state of Chelsea 's teeth than we do about the state of the nation . |
| 16 | Harmony is compromise in many cases , some countries doing far more than we do in the UK — full-range blood tests , for example . |
| 17 | And young actors have a greater instinct these days for film than they do for the stage , though this is not to say that stage training is not equally important ; nevertheless as working actors we are getting more and more camera conscious in our acting and will continue to do so . |
| 18 | This , again , is a point appreciated by Goody : ‘ Some individuals spend more time with the written language than they do with the spoken . |
| 19 | ‘ In some respects , Hardwick and Whinney Banks have more in common with the inner London borough of Islington than they do with the rest of Cleveland , ’ says the report . |
| 20 | This county council has funded them more than social services erm , for , I do n't have the figures in front of me today , but for a long time , erm , this is unlike the overwhelming majority of county councils , who spend more on social services than they do on the police . |
| 21 | An ozone depletion over the Arctic could be much more serious , as many more people live closer to the north pole than they do to the south pole ; for example North America , Russia and Europe . |
| 22 | The Commission strongly affirms the value of silent as well as vocal participation , and it believes that worshippers need to be taught how to listen to music no less attentively than they do to the reading of Scripture , or to preaching , or to the recitation of prayers . |
| 23 | Certainly the historical evidence as a whole gives little support for the quite widespread belief that older people in the past enjoyed a much more secure and respected position than they do in the present . |
| 24 | Both these rather delicately proportioned plants have more difficulty competing with other vigorous vegetation on the open river bank than they do in the neat crevices which man has provided for them . |
| 25 | Research shows that secondary pupils do use fewer non-standard forms in talk with the teacher than they do in the playground ; |
| 26 | In addition there is a mass of evidence that a very high proportion of people in their sixties and seventies are physically capable of remaining longer than they do in the formal labour market . |
| 27 | Second , governments play a more active role in influencing the volume of new housing as well as the quality and quantity of housing than they do in the case of other consumer goods . |
| 28 | This is mainly because the wages of education support staff ( such as nursery assistants and welfare assistants ) and other non-teaching staff figure much more prominently in the spending of special schools ( 27% ) than they do in the spending of primary ( 14% ) or secondary ( 11% ) schools . |
| 29 | Many children spend more time in front of the television screen than they do in the classroom . |
| 30 | I would birch them like they do on the Isle of Man , and not give them time off for good behaviour . |