Example sentences of "they do [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did lift a restriction order that had prevented the children being taken out of Orkney , and this was to prove very significant . |
| 2 | The orderlies did n't do a lot of work but they did do a lot of talking , and their general cheerfulness had a lifting effect on the corridor as a whole . |
| 3 | where they did build a school for them you see . |
| 4 | Neither programme really effected any change in the course of events , but they did build a sense of trust in those who might one day use us to bear public witness against the Godfathers of terrorism . |
| 5 | ‘ They did suggest a combination of experience and athleticism , ’ smirked Dalziel . |
| 6 | Those young people , well , they did talk a bit loudly and show off , but they always had a smile and a pleasant word , and they did brighten the place up a bit , you could n't deny it . |
| 7 | they did give a reason . |
| 8 | If they did report a rape and they 'd told him the woman opposite , at the top last night er , next week come back . |
| 9 | They got on very well , nothing homosexual I do n't think , but they did spend a lot of time together . |
| 10 | Although they had no children of their own they did adopt a baby girl from the convalescent home for children at Morris Grange . |
| 11 | They managed to get some ones on the sea , but they did have a try erm a lot of them come up with the erm barking up the wrong tree said the dog , you know , things like that with a bit of help . |
| 12 | However this radicalization in land policy had allowed them to defeat the K M T and essentially led them to get into power so one has elements of pragmatism in their ideology and that how that you 've got to realize that the Communist Party was in a very precarious situation throughout these years , that how that although they did have a kind of er policy in th there ultimate aim of socialism , and although it seare appeared s quite strange that they were almost promoting capitalism , that how that their aim during this period was to eliminate feudalism which was the s and then to establish capitalism in order that socialism could take place . |
| 13 | Some of the children in our study felt desperately disappointed that they had not been adopted , and yet they did have a home which would continue to be available to them in their adult life and had found a kind of loving , though perhaps not the all-accepting , all-loving parent of their dreams . |
| 14 | Erm the point I made to them , that everybody round that table , if they did have a problem that they thought was urgent , they should get on the phone to the , you know , Steve and |
| 15 | That 's right , I do n't think they did have a chance first half and we created maybe eight or nine chances , you know , really good clear chances and really we need to be putting more that one away and we need to kill the game off first half when we 're so superior in that sort of performance , you know . |
| 16 | The solution , therefore , was to make it look as though they did have a choice , but to ensure that they chose Franco . |
| 17 | And it went to seven months because they did have a downturn in the business so it pushed the quantities back a bit . |
| 18 | The British , it was agreed by all , on this occasion , were men of justice despite their many other faults , only they did have a habit of making tidy things untidy by over-insistence on bureaucratic process . |
| 19 | I ca n't , I ca n't remember precisely even so I think it , it , it 's Walsall 's loss that they have n't got an airport any more , it , it 's purely but erm they , they did have a lot of s divided up into a lot of sports fields at one time did n't they but the people who 've , is it the M E B who control those buildings now ? |
| 20 | My step brother , Tommy , do you know the original well Mr was a sales rep for Bokes couriers , and er his wife used to make pickles , homemade , and she us Mr used to give his friends a jar of pickles occasionally and er from that the idea of selling them , cos it ou after they 'd started distributing amongst his friends he got the idea that there was a market for it , so my step-brother Tommy er started to work with Mrs we used to call them Mrs but her name was , Street you know where Street is , well on the left hand side of Street about oh at the back of the first row of houses in Street , there was a , a small open space and Mr had a big shed put there , and er started buying the pickling onions and er all the women who wished to started skinning onions at so much a bag for Mr and er he 'd gradually built himself up but me step- brother Tommy was er working full time helping Mrs to pick the onions and , and that , that 's how Mac 's Pickles started was just from a mere fact of him being a commercial traveller and he 'd di distribute them to his friends and created the , a market for himself really ac actually they , they , they did have a van driver and a van , a van to deliver them as they gradually increased the supply and they used to deliver them all , all around the area . |
| 21 | They did get a drink eventually . |
| 22 | Well they did like a talk thing and people were like going yeah I feel the skin cream is really good , they just had a chat |
| 23 | Another show they did included a sketch in which Ken is one of two men discussing a third , now deceased , called ‘ Funny He Never Married ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ The Labour Party were prepared to try , with their very benevolent intentions , to give people good housing , but they did put a stop to people being able to do things for themselves , ’ he told the Observer . |
| 25 | ‘ They did take a dip last weekend , ’ she admitted . |
| 26 | These are not without value : they do give a sense of belonging which combats superficial isolation . |
| 27 | erm like you we read the first passage and it was kind of what 's what 's all this about if you was n't in the room and you did n't know what was being you have n't got a clue what was going on because it does n't tell you , but the rest of the sections that put down they do give a sort of brief analysis |
| 28 | Another myth is that Scorpios are sex-mad , but they do exude a kind of magnetism and sexuality which others find hard to resist . |
| 29 | But it was er er I mean i it 's clear that the policy was , was successful in that they do mobilize a lot of peasants and , and they |
| 30 | Parties and pressure groups are important parts of the British political system , and they do assume a position of power and some prominence in linking economy and society to the polity and the state . |