Example sentences of "do [adv] [pers pn] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopefully , she waited for him to return to her side , but when he failed to do so she realised that whatever he had been about to say would be left unsaid . |
| 2 | Also Leslie Silver said in the paper that although he wanted the national team to do well he thought that Leeds winning the title was far more important and that he would fight ‘ tooth and nail to keep Howard Wilkinson at Leeds ’ |
| 3 | In doing so we felt that casual passers-by , looking in the window at the menu , would be more likely to come in knowing what price they would have to pay . |
| 4 | In doing so he discovered that there were spontaneously generated potentials ( the EEG ) as well as showing that it was indeed possible to detect electrical brain responses to stimuli . |
| 5 | In doing so he emphasized that if leaders of society were to maintain the allegiance of the masses they must demonstrate their responsibility for them , sustaining the aristocratic tradition of obligation towards the poor . |
| 6 | He flicked back the cuff of his jacket to glance at his watch and as he did so he saw that he was still carrying Maidstone 's hat . |
| 7 | Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity . |
| 8 | Did n't we notice that her voice really was n't that strong when it went right up to the top storey ? |
| 9 | We went to breakfast and Mark Cox was sitting there and he asked us ‘ Did n't we know that there was coup in Russia ? ’ and he told us everything . |
| 10 | Did n't , did n't they mean that as in a period of time they 'd been stuck in the Ark . |
| 11 | Did n't they realise that mountaineering was a serious business ? |
| 12 | ‘ Did n't you realise that after five years it is n't possible to claim on someone 's estate ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Did n't you mention that someone had asked to see me ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Someone was supposed to have come up to me and said , ‘ Did n't you know that there are many starving people in Ethiopia ? ’ to which I 'm supposed to have said , ‘ Yeah . |
| 15 | Did n't you know that these were not originally invented to wind yarn on to ? |
| 16 | Did n't you know that everything you learn , and everything you suffer , will come in useful at some time in your life ? " |
| 17 | ‘ Did n't you know that Venus holds sway over both of us ? |
| 18 | The other thing that 's annoying about that is it then forces you into a completely useless small conversation such as : is that so-and-so ? and they say ‘ yes ’ , and you then feel like , they say ‘ yes ’ , as much as to say ‘ Well , why did n't you know that anyway ’ , and then you feel like saying , ‘ Well why did n't you say so ! ’ and you start off on the wrong foot . |
| 19 | ‘ Did n't you write that awfully clever play The Rate-payer ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Anne , ’ Christine said eagerly to the surprised Anne , ‘ did n't you say that your daddy could n't get enough mistletoe to sell this Christmas ? ’ |
| 21 | Did n't you say that he 'd expect you to tidy your bedroom every day before you went to school and at night before you went to bed , that everything had to be perfectly in place ? |
| 22 | Did n't you say that those youths who got their friend drunk the other Saturday were not the kind of visitors you liked here ? ’ |
| 23 | Now Edna said , did n't you say that the all the sideboards coming . |
| 24 | ‘ Did n't I mention that I had a bullet-proof skull ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Did n't I say that letting them learn to read was a bad idea ? |
| 26 | He did n't I knows that I knows it I knows it . |
| 27 | Did n't she realise that he saw through every trick she used . |
| 28 | Did n't she say that the college was , they were paying the college to ? |
| 29 | And she had asked him what would have happened to her if she had not had these good friends who had come to her aid and given her shelter , and when , in the form of an excuse , his answer had been , did n't she realize that he was distracted ? she had come back with , did n't he realize he had almost killed a man , that he was lucky he was n't in gaol now answering a charge of murder ? |
| 30 | ‘ Did n't she understand that it might look like she had bought him off with bribery ? ’ the leader asked . |