Example sentences of "do [vb infin] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New Mexico-based Digital Instrumentation Technology has announced TransferPro , software that lets users do file operations between workstations , PCs and Macs like copying , moving , deleting , renaming and creating . |
| 2 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 3 | I did eat jelly with chopsticks — as I said ! |
| 4 | Bream can and do eat gallons of bait but it is not wise to overdo things if they are finicky . |
| 5 | Men DO make passes at girls who wear glasses — which is probably why Cartier have named their new gold-plated frames ‘ Romance ’ and designed an invisible ‘ C ’ stamp on the lens which shows up only when breathed on … approx £310 . |
| 6 | Some other mammals do make use of bedding , it 's true . |
| 7 | As mentioned earlier , social services departments can and do make adaptations to premises to make life easier for the disabled person . |
| 8 | Only I do want effect of possibility of getting lost . |
| 9 | However , those differences which do exist point to JC rather than any other Creole as the focus . |
| 10 | Do treat stories of LCD hang-on-the-wall TV screens with a pinch of salt . |
| 11 | The children did make changes in vocabulary , substituting " changed " for " alternated " for example , and they also changed syntax , preferring a main clause , " When the wool had been cleaned and combed " to " The raw wool having been cleaned and combed " . |
| 12 | One strange discovery we did make scraps of paper bearing the word Raphael . |
| 13 | Brigitte did make enquiries at Pitmans , where classes started at five in the evening , and at the Kilburn Polytechnic , where there were weekend classes , but continued to doubt her ability to study enough at evening classes . |
| 14 | It was inevitable that if , in saying anything that blamed others , he did make admissions in part that would tend to confirm the accuracy of the allegations that had already been made against him . |
| 15 | On the other hand , you do need guidelines to work to . |
| 16 | Bank loans are a possibility , often a necessity , but loans do need repayment with interest and charges . |
| 17 | ‘ Though , ’ she qualified , ‘ I did enjoy botany at school , and I 'd love to see your ghost orchids . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ … despite bad conditions , despite external direction , despite subjective ravages , people do look for meaning , they do impose frameworks , they do seek enjoyment in activity , they do exercise their abilities . |
| 19 | As companies that do fall victim to computer crime prefer to deal with the problem internally , personnel security may well turn out to be the most vital component in a firm 's defences . |
| 20 | ‘ Also I do free estimates for people considering installing heating systems , which take about four hours each — including all the paperwork . |
| 21 | Do free markets in finance and takeovers produce a healthier economy than those where regulation is tighter and shares are more closely held ? |
| 22 | There is a generally accepted view that people ‘ going under ’ anaesthetic do display extremes of behaviour — but here it was viewed automatically as sexual , as if the expectations of the doctors did not allow for anything else . |
| 23 | Studies of responses to both separation from the attachment object and subsequent reunion with it , yield unequivocal support to the proposition that attachments can and often do survive periods of absence , undiminished in strength , despite the fact that attachment behaviour may diminish in strength during the period of absence . |
| 24 | Its workstation figures do include sales of server systems , but only servers that are dedicated to workstation environments , plus tools and utilities software such as operating systems , compilers , software engineering tools and graphics libraries , certain peripherals — such as personal computer co-processor boards and laser printers — service , maintenance , custom consulting and systems integration fees . |
| 25 | Because we do guarantee continuity of assignments . |
| 26 | They actually did send teams of people erm , nuclear scientists to Chernobyl to try and get just how much damage was being caused and going on being caused , but there was , I think you probably do n't remember because it went right by |
| 27 | When he did show signs of depression I could usually shake him out of it , and we took a schoolboyish delight in finding ways to disconcert Ralph 's snooty man , Talbot , who brought morning coffee and afternoon tea up to the library , and evidently disapproved or both us and our enterprise . |
| 28 | Yet men did die ; they did resist Turks and Italians by battle and by evasion ; they did collect taxes from passers-by , and almost certainly distributed the proceeds to household heads . |
| 29 | Things on TV do give ideas to people . |
| 30 | Flyers in the shops bear witness to increased club activity , as do dance outfits like Rejuevenation ( bottom right ) . |