Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [conj] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1	What is clear is that business managers are pulled in many directions and that they must and do make choices among alternative objectives ’ .
2	But sixteen was a man and when he had begun to drown as a man there was nothing they could or did do to step in and help .
3	For these reasons — their pattern of settlement , the ease , low cost and low risk of meeting obligations — Zuwaya were able to still think of themselves as nomads : they were wrong , but from time to time they could and did regard some of their social arrangements as unchanging , inert .
4	Committee chairmen had greater microphone power : they could and did interrupt speakers , overriding their speeches with voluble and sometimes lengthy rehearsals of facts and figures ; they intervened to answer rhetorical questions or to explain that they were irrelevant .
5	These were sturdy little cars and although used mainly on the Norbury — Purley and Thornton Heath lines in the early days , they could and did work anywhere on the system .
6	However , in emphasising their dependence it is only too easy to diminish what they can and do contribute .
7	Far dimmer and simpler than ours , but they certainly exist , and it is now recognised that they can and do suffer from stress .
8	The better off may use some private systems from time-to-time but they are still supported by a network of public systems they can and do fall back on .
9	What he did not mean is that women lack rationality ; they can and do deliberate .
10	In any attempt to assess and understand the use and function , the economic and social benefits of community languages in the restricted domains of the work place and in the public services i.e. outside the domain of the household , it seems imperative that one look at the sociolinguistic and socioeconomic profiles of the different speech communities and the uses they can and do put their languages to .

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