Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps , after all , you really do secretly relish the thought of sharing a house with me . ’ |
| 2 | The lazy punkas overhead do little to ease the discomfort of the temperature and humidity . |
| 3 | There is often considerable contrapuntal interest , although not always : some of the arrangements degenerate into a languid succession of chords that do little to retain the interest of at least this listener . |
| 4 | Many of the programmes do little to stimulate the mind and sitting in a chair staring at a screen is not too good for the body either . |
| 5 | Faxes and telephones add to the flow of communication but do little to reduce the flow of people . |
| 6 | I do rather crave a motor car . |
| 7 | Plants with a fibrous root system , creating plenty of organic matter , do most to improve the soil structure . |
| 8 | This fact , and the limited spread of settled land suggested in Chapter IV , do much to explain the lack of vocal protest about settlements which was such a feature of the early modern counterpart of the Roman settlement . |
| 9 | It is less easy to see , for instance , how the meaning of a loss such as bereavement could be so readily reinterpreted , or whether such attempts do much to reduce the risk of depression . |
| 10 | Nor did early twentieth-century state welfare provision do much to alleviate the position of working class wives because it too assumed the existence of the bourgeois family model and a family wage . |
| 11 | Er , we call on Labour Mem Members of Parliament to give their support in each of these areas mentioned , and we do constantly have a dialogue and provide what is the union line in terms of erm these particular er issues . |
| 12 | So , as you can see , there is no need to be discouraged from growing plants for pressing even if you do only have a window box . |
| 13 | Four out of 10 shoppers believe that supermarkets selling " environment-friendly " products do so to exploit the market and not out of a genuine concern to protect the earth , according to Mintel. 10 per cent of respondents in the Mintel survey believed that companies were hiding behind a green " front " , and those who went out of their way to buy green products did so " in spite of corporate public relations efforts " . |
| 14 | But the geographical areas served do obviously make a difference . |
| 15 | should er and we do already confess the name do n't we ? |
| 16 | The other thing might be do just do a questionnaire asking people about their attitudes to accents and dialects and |
| 17 | So if you do just measure the angle they say , Find the gradient and erm find the the angle . |
| 18 | There was an offer in the letter if my memory 's correct but it did n't actually specify what their offer was and really I think what the Council want to do is exactly what they are offering because we have to be minded all the time that the that er applicant does not own all the land and , and certainly it is , is , is the wish I think of this Council , I believe unanimously , and , and I think a lot of the residents , that we do somehow acquire a pedestrian link . |
| 19 | The question of what it is desirable for Japan to be and do deeply divides the Japanese , but few fail to acknowledge that being Japanese sets them apart . |
| 20 | This has opened the door to bare , inadequate denials ( see Chapter 8 ) but these do still stand the risk of the district judge striking them out . |
| 21 | But , confessing to the odd moment of scruffiness , he pointed out : ‘ I have to admit that I do still like the comfort of shorts and a T-shirt . ’ |
| 22 | I mean personally I think one of the difficulties in the colleges is that they do still have a sense of being at schools , and when you have an atmosphere which is like school you 're tacitly given people permission to act as if they were at school , and so we have a and that activity may not always be very adult , so we have to find a way of changing the environment of the colleges . |
| 23 | Yes , I do still keep a diary , though it now shows my hospital , doctor 's and dentist 's appointments rather than my business meetings or my target dates and such . |
| 24 | I 'm not supposed to look after the ledgers now , but I do still keep the PoSition record for the ships , and sometimes I have to get a ledger to check a sailing date . |
| 25 | We , Barnabas James Thomas and Joseph Jex Taylor both of 1 Victoria Street , Westminster , Civil Engineers , and Gordon Cale Thomas of Marsworth in the County of Bucks. , Civil Engineer , do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows : — |
| 26 | We , Barnabas James Thomas and Joseph Jex Taylor , both of 1 Victoria Street , Westminster , Civil Engineers ; and Gordon Cale Thomas of Marsworth , in the County of Bucks. , Civil Engineer , do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows : — |
| 27 | I knit on a Brother 891 with ribber mainly , although I do also have a Passap Duo 80 . |
| 28 | BUSES rumbling through the city streets in 1986 could need 30 per cent less fuel than they do now to bring the cry ‘ standing room only ’ to impatient queues . |
| 29 | But you do now have a link which could be tested to see if it is valid . |
| 30 | I do now remember the thing with Regis . |