Example sentences of "they do [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What can they Do to solve the problems or choose strategies for action ? |
| 2 | and what 'll they do buy the shares back off people which 'll |
| 3 | What would they do to please the electorate ? |
| 4 | They did repeat the rush goal from every angle and it DID hit him on the head … more later … they also discussed the penalty and concluded that was a joke . |
| 5 | The termites continued to build their hills with their crest pointing in exactly the same direction as before , but they did change the disposition of their elongated chambers within the nest . |
| 6 | The intention of the project was to investigate how teachers across the primary age-range used collaborative tasks as an integral part of their normal classroom activity and what they did to enable the children to work effectively together . |
| 7 | The criterion of liability is : ‘ Did the defendants … bring to their land things likely to catch fire , and keep them there in such conditions that if they did ignite the fire would be likely to spread to the plaintiff 's land ? ’ |
| 8 | For the Germans say they DID make the offer . |
| 9 | They did make the point that we 're better than most of their er |
| 10 | The more weak-willed of the defenders very often spent more time watching the native princes eating their banquets than they did watching the enemy lines . |
| 11 | Although a reasonable amount of material is available about the lives of these two men , nothing is known about their Muftiliks beyond the bare statement that they did hold the office ; and it is consequently impossible to make assumptions with any assurance about the nature of their Muftiliks . |
| 12 | A Labour Party spokesman , however , has got round this little difficulty by asking the company 's current auditors and their predecessors what they did to draw the public 's attention to the problem . |
| 13 | The nursing home say they did consult the council … and have promised to carry out sensitive landscaping … along the gap . |
| 14 | They were very attractive and they did have the advantage that you could take them down and plunge the whole thing in water and wash it and er |
| 15 | In the case of Camden and Islington , the authority did have good officers , and they did have the capacity to plan for a future district based provision . |
| 16 | They did have the consolation of a team medal , however , and only Sudbury 's Steve Jones prevented RTE taking a first five clean sweep . |
| 17 | The Location of Offices Bureau showed the way in South-East England ; distances moved from central London were often modest but they did have the effect of prising population outward . |
| 18 | They , they did have the option that they could have had complete absolute egalitarianism and made everybody into a poor peasant , but the commun but the commun the Communist Party were progressive and they s saw that how that you needed to have industrialization in order to increase the welfare of peasants which was their ultimate aim , and I mean it appears that how that they did n't actually care er what kinds of means they 'd have to achieve that , as in capitalism was justified in this longer term perspective . |
| 19 | While their confrontations are now almost a ritual mixture of banter and cross-examination , they did produce the highlight of the meeting . |
| 20 | Ask them what they would do if they did know the answers . |
| 21 | i mean they did get the guys . |
| 22 | It is perhaps fortunate from our point of view that we can pin ourselves , in so far as we are talking about an inset , to the actual deposit copy of Ryedale District Council , when they did get the matter right , but no body apart from them , sir , did so . |
| 23 | Fight as they did to keep the canoe on course they were driven westward of Castiglione ( near Sidi Ferruch ) when they should have been east of this port . |
| 24 | But some tablets were kindly provided and they did alleviate the problem . |
| 25 | They did ask the King to call a free Parliament , in which provision could be made for a " due liberty of conscience " for all Protestants , although they linked this with the demand that the Church of England should " be secured according to the Act of Uniformity " , suggesting that " due liberty of conscience " was to be very limited indeed . |
| 26 | But they did educate the public on a subject which it would have preferred to ignore . |
| 27 | Mr when he gave evidence , assessed the parent 's contribution as quote absolutely amazing really , not just what they did to help the nurses but also in insisting that she was n't stupid , she just could n't talk they made it clear to the nurses and doctors that she could understand and we were n't to treat her like a vegetable . |
| 28 | Those young people , well , they did talk a bit loudly and show off , but they always had a smile and a pleasant word , and they did brighten the place up a bit , you could n't deny it . |
| 29 | However they did replace the Packard Bell , at no extra charge , with a more expensive Acer Acros which has proved to be much better PC in several ways — it comes with 4Mb of memory , it 's upgradeable to a 486DX , it 's faster , and the serial port is standard Com1 . |
| 30 | The Palestinians were thus caught in a moral circle , although they rarely cared to debate the morality of what they were doing to the Lebanese : if they failed to fight the Israelis , then they sacrificed their right of return to Palestine ; yet if they did attack the Israelis , they created a new class of refugees among the Lebanese , mostly from the poor Shia community in southern Lebanon . |