Example sentences of "do [verb] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fabia was shaken , but was more intent then on finding out what she could do to help whatever the trouble was , than concerned that it looked as though she could say goodbye to her much looked forward to Czechoslovakian holiday . |
| 2 | I wanted to give her time to think over what harm it would do to tell me the truth . |
| 3 | ‘ You did lend him the money , did n't you ? ’ |
| 4 | You do know what the Stop List is , Breakspear ? ’ |
| 5 | I do know who the man is . ’ |
| 6 | And TODAY really did show her the way home by persuading Captain Nick Fletcher to let her sit in the cockpit with him . |
| 7 | Do give her the chance of a night 's rest before you have it out with her . ’ |
| 8 | He did give everybody the run-around , but was wonderfully attractive and , indeed , still is . |
| 9 | Joy 's strawberry blonde hair did give her the look of a shop window dummy but under all her rouge and lipstick she could be decisive . |
| 10 | They did give me the name of the hospital Salome was in and the taller one told me that the accident had happened ‘ just off the M20 near Wrotham ’ , but they had no more details , they were just running errands for the Kent police . |
| 11 | Actually erm although councillor is quite correct that we 're providing a service , erm in some ways it would be nice if the government did give us the freedom to operate our business as we choose to do so . |
| 12 | And if they did give you the sack you would be walked away to the army I expect . |
| 13 | Since we do understand what the sceptic is saying , we must have the sort of knowledge required for that understanding . |
| 14 | Sir , I thanke you , but I thynke I might the better doo it , if you did showe me the woorkinge of it . |
| 15 | I hold no strong views myself , but I do wonder what the lady would have done had the man produced from his bowler hat a valid membership card . |
| 16 | He was right , of course ; she did owe him the courtesy of an apology , even though he would very likely throw it back in her face . |
| 17 | Yeah I did tell you the truth |
| 18 | ‘ So you did offer her the presenter 's job on Inside Out , yeah ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I did warn you the soup was hot . ’ |
| 20 | Thus , once he has overcome his immediate problems of how to pay the wages , he will then require the development of an internal standard costing and budgetary control system which does give him the information he requires . |
| 21 | Just to add to what 's been said erm there , there have been some points raised er along the lines I 've mentioned and as a result of that erm it is felt that erm notification to members who are not on the application sub-committee of applications which affect their ward area could be improved and that is er I hope to be the subject of a report to the next meeting of the Application Sub-Committee , so that er matter i is something which is , which is being picked up and will be considered by that sub-committee but it does give me the opportunity to say that erm the definition of a complaint i is certainly not a precise one and I certainly would n't want members of this committee to feel that I was being complacent er as a result of there only being three complaints that we received . |
| 22 | It does give them the opportunity to provide the facilities , and on top of that on top of classification we now have grading , where every aspect of that hotel 's operation is examined and inspected and they are giving erm the classification as well as the grading , which could be highly commended or commended , and to give you some idea , out of the hotels in this region , you know , very , very few so far have reached the highly commended accolade , and those that do are well worth it , you know . |
| 23 | Brian Smart , executive director of the British Franchise Association , adds : ‘ Franchising is not a guarantee of success , but it does give you the option of joining a business whose worth has already been proved . ’ |
| 24 | When he does realise what the topic is , he implicates a significant lack of interest in it by changing the topic to that of his " ulterior motive " in coming to Czechoslovakia . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , but Winnie does tell us the truth , does n't he , even if we do n't like it ? |
| 26 | As mentioned in para 3.2 above , it does not have the force of law , but it does reflect what the City considers to be best practice in the conduct of takeovers . |