Example sentences of "[vb mod] and [verb] [vb infin] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is clear is that business managers are pulled in many directions and that they must and do make choices among alternative objectives ’ . |
| 2 | Men could and did eat sandwiches while their female companions ate nothing . |
| 3 | The House could and did sack governments ( such as Russell 's first Cabinet in 1852 , Aberdeen 's ministry in 1885 , Lord Palmerston in 1858 , Russell again in 1866 and Gladstone in 1885 ) without having to face a general election . |
| 4 | It could and did reach conclusions upon policy , but the final decision rested with the Queen , who seldom attended meetings and might easily ignore their conclusions . |
| 5 | Elfed could and did pull strings on the local Co-operative committee . |
| 6 | Individual peasants and lords could and did remove strips or groups of strips from the rotation sequence of their neighbours and fence them around . |
| 7 | Committee chairmen had greater microphone power : they could and did interrupt speakers , overriding their speeches with voluble and sometimes lengthy rehearsals of facts and figures ; they intervened to answer rhetorical questions or to explain that they were irrelevant . |
| 8 | ‘ The mind , taking no notice of itself , is deluded to think it can and doth conceive bodies … without the mind . ’ |
| 9 | There are many issues on which the drinks industry can and does join forces with governments and health promoters to combat alcohol abuse . |
| 10 | Redheads can and do wear pinks , as well as terracotta and greens . |
| 11 | Bream can and do eat gallons of bait but it is not wise to overdo things if they are finicky . |
| 12 | There is considerable evidence from psycholinguistic experiments that people can and do make decisions about a word 's identity before they have access to its complete phonological specification . |
| 13 | As mentioned earlier , social services departments can and do make adaptations to premises to make life easier for the disabled person . |
| 14 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 15 | Firstly , while it may be true that individual clients can and do terminate contracts frequently , they do this to move from one company to another : every year each company loses existing but gains new customers . |
| 16 | It is also because it is a well-written , intensely moving story which shows that MPs can and do achieve things , that true love can and does exist , and which restores one 's faith in politicians at a time such restoration is badly needed . |
| 17 | Health Board administrators with a predominantly managerial ideology can and do take decisions which profoundly affect patients and staff , including medical staff . |
| 18 | This is n't a glib advertising slogan but a statement of simple truth , because smoke detector alarms can and do save lives . |