Example sentences of "do [adv] [vb infin] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's important too to stress that we did originally set out to divert ten percent of those people from residential and nursing homes into care in the community packages . |
| 2 | When , as part of my training , I was regressed under hypnosis by my late husband ( also a qualified hypnotherapist ) , I did indeed turn out to have lived during the Tudor period — but I was a pig-farmer 's daughter who , having lived a pitiful existence , died from a gangrenous leg at the age of fifteen . |
| 3 | That was actually what he said , and he did then go on to say that you know he is one of a group of people who I think they call themselves the appointments committee and that their job , where appointments are concerned , is crisis management . |
| 4 | Now , irrespective of the soundness of believing that universities did actually work vigorously to review and develop the quality of their courses and did in practice operate as self-critical academic communities , these ideas are not immediately compatible . |
| 5 | I did actually get over to work for them in 1968–70 and 1971 , but this story I am referring to was in 1967 when I was just paying a visit and was given a bed for the night in the hostel . |
| 6 | Although most of us do n't have the time or the inclination to record what tickles a particular customer 's fancy when it comes to paying , it does nevertheless pay off to make that extra effort and note what it is that works — particularly with large customers . |
| 7 | An animal does indeed strive instinctively to keep alive , much as it will forage for food ( plants in unconscious and less mobile ways do also ) , but , lacking language , it is unduly anthropomorphic to describe this as hoping or aspiring to live to a ripe old age ; except perhaps as a joke . |