Example sentences of "do [adv] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | I do most sincerely hope you may feel able to help , and look forward to hearing from you . |
2 | I do most sincerely hope you may feel able to help , and look forward to hearing from you . |
3 | I do most sincerely hope you may feel able to help , and look forward to hearing from you . |
4 | When you go to pony club the teachers do not just test you on Dressage , cross country and show jumping they show you how to care for your horse and how to understand them . |
5 | Ask yourself if your belief is founded on sufficient data — do not just accept it . |
6 | ‘ Years ago we threw the old didacticism ( dowdy morality ) out of the window ; it has come back in at the door wearing modern dress ( smart values ) and we do not even recognize it ’ ( p. 159 ) . |
7 | Sometimes they do not even realise they are pregnant . |
8 | I do not even acknowledge them as my own . ’ |
9 | This strangeness will very quickly pass in the same way as a capped tooth or new filling feels peculiar after a visit to the dentist yet , after a couple of days , we do not even notice it any more . |
10 | Life on the margins characterises the Christian church in advanced industrial societies , and more often than not we do not even notice it . |
11 | What is remarkable about the text-books ( which describe the chemical structure of the various chains in loving detail ) is not so much that they do not explain the discrepancy but that they do not even notice it ; nor are they apparently interested in the fact that the work of fracture for a material like Polythene or Nylon is at least a hundred times higher than it is for most of the thermosetting plastics . |
12 | From my understanding , more than a quarter of a million TM practitioners in England are in ignorance , currently invoking heathen deities twice a day , and the majority do not even know it ! |
13 | Members do not simply join it , they buy a stake in it . |
14 | Members do not simply join it , they buy a stake in it |
15 | As teachers … we can not give this faculty to those who do not already possess it , as a natural endowment , in the degree which literary criticism demands . |
16 | Request also that the past year 's water , gas and electricity bills , and the service agreements for boilers , security alarms etc , be available for your inspection , if you do not already have them . |
17 | If you decide to keep your name and address records in Ami Pro ( an attractive option if you do not already have them in a database such as dBase or a spreadsheet such as 1-2-3 ) then it provides an easy to use record keeping system . |
18 | Moreover , because leprosy is often spread by people who do not yet know they have the disease , therapy with drugs is not very effective . |
19 | In general , if you ca n't restate someone else 's ideas in your own words , it is likely that you do not yet understand them sufficiently to be able to make appropriate use of them . |
20 | I do not yet understand it , but although I was once a keen and proud European , there are things in it that would now make me one of the most sceptical . |
21 | ‘ I do not exactly expect you to give your share away , mademoiselle . |
22 | However , it follows at once that they do not strictly present us with a distinct adjective position , but just a special case of the predicative adjective already discussed in Chapter 3 . |
23 | Do not immediately put him on the lead , for this will reinforce the idea that when he comes back to you , he is immediately going to be taken home and , in future , will associate coming to you with the end of the walk or game . |
24 | In recent years , minor enzyme deficiencies have been found in some people , which do not normally make them ill unless they take a particular medicinal drug . |
25 | Likewise , there is no reason why adjectives which are restrictive in attributive position should not be acceptable if used , say , predicatively with the same nouns ; only in that case , we do not normally expect them to have a restrictive value . |
26 | The building itself and its atmosphere as a place of worship can speak powerfully to those who do not normally use it , and brings them into contact with the church community . |
27 | Many hospitals including those at Oxford , where some of the research took place , do not normally use it with patients who display no symptoms . |
28 | Birds and cats , as everyone knows , do not normally hit it off , and when Dawn met our cat , Jasper , this was most definitely the case . |
29 | In this chapter we have been concerned with the sharp end of the political process — with the institutions on which rests the job of maintaining order and of enforcing the decisions of the political process , however reached , on any citizens or foreign persons who do not voluntarily accept them . |
30 | ‘ Do not ever thank me . |