Example sentences of "do [pers pn] [adv] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I had better say now that readers who identify the I of the Sonnets with Shakespeare 's own personality not only encourage that futility of speculation about the identity of a real-life ‘ Friend ’ and ‘ Dark Lady ’ which has pestered discussions of these poems for so long , and is now in the last stages of senility ; but in so doing they also destroy one of the essential principles of literary criticism in modern times , the independence of the I in lyric poetry , its existence as a persona or mask behind which the poet is free to impersonate any human situation without being identified with each or all of the mutations — often contradictory — taken on by his persona . ) |
| 2 | Do I really need two airpumps , for the skimmer and the trickle filter , or will one pump do both ? |
| 3 | so what I did I just got four packets of their dozens , cos he wo n't have anything else except Bovril |
| 4 | At no time did I ever have one of them ever say to me that they were erm against foxes , but all of a sudden we find ourselves being issued with a er petition from tenant farmers which says that they are against er people like me that er er pro banning , it 's very like er Mr , we ca n't attack Mr cos he 's no longer here but on the , on the issue of er , I C I brought ou . |
| 5 | Did you only play one game ? |
| 6 | Then he said , " If you thought it was so bloody good , why did you only read one page ? " |
| 7 | Did you only order one bottle ? ’ |
| 8 | Alright , no , we 've got er , I do n't a bit down game , that 's wrong , you know your territory , do you just have one territory , Jack ? |
| 9 | But that , that causes its own problems because erm , you know , do you just become one of them or what do you do , and |
| 10 | Do you only get four in it ? |
| 11 | What , do you only have five horses ? |
| 12 | Do you really need thirty operatives in Frankfurt ? |
| 13 | and with regard to the three bedrooms do you actually need three bedrooms or if a a two bedroomed cottage came up with perhaps an extra room downstairs or something would that be okay ? |
| 14 | If that programme has been such a failure , why do we now have 30 programmes targeting support for identifiable industrial priority areas , and why are there almost 200 collaborative research programmes ? |
| 15 | Do we then have two independent reasons for introducing people ? |
| 16 | As individuals do we readily forgive one another or do we harbour wounds and hate within our hearts ? |
| 17 | Only after ‘ tedious battering the top thereof with pick-axes ’ did they eventually undermine two of its six sides bringing them down and leaving the tower in the state in which it is today . |
| 18 | Politics apart , Mosley and Joyce had little enough in common , nor did they greatly like one another personally . |
| 19 | have , have er , it , do they just sell one lot like again in same , same again |
| 20 | Does it just have one , one side to each tape ? |
| 21 | Who knows , and does it really matter 90 years later ? |
| 22 | ‘ Admittedly NIE has an extended distribution network , but does it really need 3,750 employees — six for every 1,000 customers — when its peers on the mainland average only 4.5 per thousand . |