Example sentences of "people do [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never found it to be a boring job , erm if it is boring I think it 's because they 're only making it , if they make it that way and I think it 's partly due , if they , if people do talk that way then I think it 's partly due to the sort of duty systems that people work now , and erm the number of hours they work , and , and strangely for little things like the introduction of television , I think television , very nice in its way but it 's killed life on fire stations and in certain areas , cos the whole business of conversation and learning and so on has gone , people would much sooner sit nowadays in front of the television and be entertained for an evening , instead of using all the other skills and , and erm things that are offered to them . |
| 2 | It is not known exactly how many people die from hypothermia ( ie die ‘ from cold ’ , because their inner body temperature has become dangerously low ) , but thousands of older people do die each winter from cold-related conditions . |
| 3 | He says not everyone knows their serial number but some people do know distinguishing marks on their hi fi . |
| 4 | Mind you some people do like different types of defender . |
| 5 | Erm , you know people do say these things about computer codes . |
| 6 | ‘ People do get strange ideas , ’ he says . |
| 7 | even if people do read these contracts , or these warranties , or these extended service contracts , they might not know what they 're buying even if it 's read to them , because it 's in a particular kind of jargon . |
| 8 | In Belgium many people do take three weeks at a time |
| 9 | It 's nice to have an estimator represented on the course because I think that you 'll admit that people do put some thought into this and the , the rates that you use for labour and plant , you try to make realistic . |
| 10 | Further work on the short-term memory paradigm by Poizner , Bellugi and Tweney ( 1981 ) produced confirming results that deaf people do use serial processes in a way similar to hearing people . |
| 11 | While people do have private languages with which to communicate with themselves or others close to them , the main purpose of language is to communicate with others . |
| 12 | People do have regional identities , but the Minister completely overlooks that . |
| 13 | It is true that people had loyalties to the old counties , many of which were abolished by the Conservatives in 1974 , but people do have regional identities . |
| 14 | No well normal people do have milky coffee |
| 15 | ‘ Racing people do have flexible hours , ’ he observed , ‘ and they mostly have free afternoons . ’ |
| 16 | I accept , of course , that people do have these experiences . |
| 17 | Most people do have some idea of whether or not one type of credit is ‘ expensive ’ , compared to other types of credit . |
| 18 | I 'm , I 'm , I 'm a bit against er traders like , like builders and all like that and trade people being on the Council , I 'm a bit against that , er but after saying that , those kind of people do have some understanding on what 's to be done |