Example sentences of "do occasionally [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do occasionally move through the range two at a time e.g. 4,6,8 but as often as not that is because I 've economised in not buying all the potencies ! |
| 2 | ‘ I hate to disillusion you , Mr Jacobsen — ’ to her relief her light , careless laugh sounded almost genuine ‘ but women do occasionally manage to be in the company of other women without any thought of men . |
| 3 | They do occasionally assume the role of ‘ self-appointed guardians of the nation 's conscience ’ . |
| 4 | However , hotel management do occasionally change this arrangement at very short notice ; we will endeavour to give you the most up-to-date information on request . |
| 5 | Witnesses do occasionally change their stories . |
| 6 | They they do occasionally change them around |
| 7 | It is an important skill because even experienced pilots do occasionally make approaches which are far too high and which can be redeemed if they can side-slip quickly and accurately . |
| 8 | Should you find that despite all this you do occasionally eat too much , try to take extra exercise , the occasional long walk at least , to work it off . |
| 9 | Children do occasionally comment on the length of dresses though , and have to solve the problem of the dress that is too long for them to walk in , or the jacket which is too small . |
| 10 | Although in ’ Coarse Fisherman ’ I primarily write about coarse fish to be caught on lures — pike , zander , perch etc. — I do occasionally refer to game fish and in this feature I want to mention sea angling . |
| 11 | Unfortunately coaches are not infallible and do occasionally break down or need replacing and certain on board facilities may occasionally fail . |
| 12 | Others do occasionally venture out but are painful to watch . |
| 13 | ‘ And they do occasionally turn up in auction . ’ |
| 14 | Although well-known shops do occasionally sell fake goods by mistake , it 's very rare , according to trading standards officers . |
| 15 | We do occasionally get calls from people who 've dialled a number listed in one of the ads only to find that it 's wrong — an old lady in Dunfirmline insisting that she 's definitely not selling a Malmsteen Strat — or perhaps giving the ‘ unobtainable ’ tone on a number which does n't exist . |
| 16 | By the way erm for non-metro districts they can choose whether they can have election by thirds or not , and you do occasionally get r you do occasionally you can get , get very occasional examples of a , of a dis of a district council opting to switch from one to the other . |
| 17 | And that is the high unit cost end , with the people who move into nursing homes , and obviously our highest cost , with the exception of certain very complex cases on physical disability , erm , where we , we do occasionally get higher cost packages keeping people out of the nursing home . |
| 18 | They do occasionally emit a mild ‘ By Jove ’ or ‘ Bother everything ’ but their emotional range bears little comparison with that of most children . |
| 19 | Abuses that do occasionally come to light are wrongly sensationalized as being common place rather than being merely one off incidents . |
| 20 | Fluent readers do occasionally have problems with this . |
| 21 | ‘ She did occasionally mention a Trevor . |
| 22 | Meiosis can not normally occur unless the chromosomes form so-called homologous pairs ; despite this , meiosis did occasionally occur and a few normal-looking egg cells appeared . |
| 23 | The outfit was small and dealt mainly in freight , but they did occasionally take passengers — for a price . |
| 24 | We did occasionally get the flies blowing them like , you know , but as long as you get it , got it in time and cut it down and cut it up straight away it was all right like . |
| 25 | These gatherings were held in the Church Institute and I did occasionally worry about the language . |
| 26 | Racism was not wiped out when Lyon was minister , on the contrary some of the worst cases of human suffering at the hands of Immigration Officers occurred in his regime , but he did occasionally act with some humanity . |
| 27 | I did n't want to have to keep carrying her back to the same perch for the rest of her life , although she did occasionally fly to the perch herself , she was so used to it . |
| 28 | It was only Sunday services but er we did occasionally have , cos you do n't get a wedding every day , but we did sing occasionally at the weddings , the biggest service was at Easter when there was quite a performance at Easter yes Joh Johnny he was a he was in the choir and he 's , there was another woman that might be interested a Mrs in Street during the fourteen war they used to have the Red Cross collection and they 'd organize processions round round the streets collecting for the Red Cross and they used to knit socks and send them out and all that sort of thing |
| 29 | His playing is never less than very good , but he does occasionally tend to be a trifle straight-laced in the more contemplative works . |
| 30 | Sandy means an awful lot in that old lady 's life and she does occasionally reach the point when she 's got so little money left that believe it or not she has to choose between buying food for herself and buying dog food for Sandy . |