Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm only just glad we ca n't I du n no then son .
2 The experiments reviewed in this section do little to advance out understanding of the mechanisms involved ( often important control conditions are lacking ) but they do allow the conclusion that there is no fundamental difference between the so-called perceptual and motor test tasks in their susceptibility to acquired equivalence/distinctiveness effects .
3 Despite moments of despondency , de Gaulle himself certainly did not give up hope .
4 Matters , however , did not rest where Papinian left them .
5 Before she could comment he made the point that people did not switch off anger once they had extricated themselves from the risk of further suffering , especially not if they had leisure to reflect on injustice .
6 ( Elinor did not drink either tea or coffee and only the occasional glass of mint tea .
7 The previous section identified the axes of the McKinsey-GE matrix , but did not explain how attractiveness or competitive strengths could be classified as high , medium or low .
8 Such backsliding was not necessarily incompatible with the general movement of mankind : evolution did not rule out devolution .
9 She obviously would not have travelled such a huge distance if she did not hold out hope for the relationship , and Charity wanted to respect that .
10 The control subjects did not receive either placebo or loperamide oxide tablets but underwent an identical series of measurements on one occasion .
11 During the study period 12 controls and two prompted patients did not receive either hospital outpatient eye examination or optometry screening ( p=0.008 ) .
12 ‘ Binge ’ diary Week 1 Decided to give up vomiting ; binged three times 2–3 Noticed that when stressed by children she turned to food and binged 4–5 Binged only once each week 6–7 Returned home and observed how she wanted to please her parents 8–9 On holiday , eating three meals a day — discovered she did not put on weight .
13 Instead , a new grouping of critics , working under the influence of theorists such as Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault , came to realise that literary texts did not mark out expression which could somehow break free of the culture which produced them .
14 They did not know when accident or sickness would hit them , and though they knew that some time in middle age — perhaps in the forties for unskilled labourers , perhaps in the fifties for the more skilled — they would become incapable of doing a full measure of adult physical labour , they did not know what would happen to them between then and death .
15 Melanie did not know how Finn washed , when he washed , if he ever washed ; but Francie would sometimes fill an oval tin bath from kettles and saucepans boiled on the stove and sit impassively in it in the kitchen behind a locked door .
16 Frank Grimwood did not worry about time .
17 Many people will say that they do not have the time to pause before acting , but this is a false economy ; if you do not pause then nature has ways of making you stop through illness .
18 Do NOT switch on immersion heater until you are positive the tanks are full — and see ‘ Water ’ below .
19 ‘ Confidentiality ’ may mean my right ( or wish ) that you do not pass on what I have told you ( or do n't identify me as the informant ) , or it may mean my wish ( or right ) that you do not pass on information about me , or , with ‘ professional ’ prefixed , it may mean that our group will support each other by saying nothing about each other 's judgements , competencies or foibles .
20 When we speak of freedom , we … do not mean merely freedom from restraint or compulsion .
21 We do not mean merely freedom to do as we like irrespectively of what it is that we like .
22 Scavengers , contrary to popular belief do not suck up mud and stones from the floor of the pool , but feed upon uneaten fish food and in the case of snails , on troublesome algae as well .
23 It does not , however , extend to the donation of organs or blood since , so far as the donor is concerned , these do not constitute either treatment or diagnosis .
24 We are talking about costs and , as my hon. Friend will know , the cost of maintaining any aircraft , whether in the Royal Air Force or the reserves , is great , and I do not know how cost effective it would be .
25 Those who have not tried to sell — and particularly sell in a highly competitive market where there are very large contracts , the possession or loss of which can have a fatal effect on one 's whole business — do not know how testing it is of courage and nerve .
26 At present , we do not know how smoking might promote either gall stone formation or the development of symptoms .
27 I do not see how relief can be denied to Handscomb in consequence of this as well as other declaratory relief which will be later formulated .
28 I do not see how expansion could happen without a substantial increase in government funding .
29 This way , all the grain travels in the same direction and you do not store up shrinkage problems .
30 D — Process package/product Down ( but do not read out package module )
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