Example sentences of "do [adv] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , really its a question of , do we borrow or do n't we borrow . |
| 2 | I was going to say that , I mean if we do do that why do n't we move to a position when , I know it 's not finalized yet , the P As do the twenty six fives , and we try and adapt Sarah to do the whole s the whole of the four sub teams , ma maybe the threshold has to come down a bit , but but at least we 've got some sort of parity of working throughout |
| 3 | Did you do n't you think that was sad ? |
| 4 | Did you do n't you want to sell it then ? |
| 5 | Do n't you just do n't you go the Registry Office ? |
| 6 | Nan you 'll love why do n't you go back and watch your programme and have a sit down and we wo n't be two ticks eating these . |
| 7 | Do you erm do n't you keep any erm |
| 8 | ‘ Caro , for God 's sake , if you have n't got anything better to do why do n't you help us ? |
| 9 | I wish I could er well do n't , do n't you know , that 's a record case there ! |
| 10 | I said well what did yo do n't you have to tell me ? |
| 11 | but you ca n't you ca n't dip into modules of that can you do n't you have to do the whole thing ? |
| 12 | I said well what did do n't you have to tell me ? |
| 13 | No I 'd I 'd I do n't I do n't believe that that 's the case erm |
| 14 | I do , clearly , do n't I. Then why do n't I like it ? ) |
| 15 | Teachers , on the other hand , objected ; teaching work should be carried out by people with teaching qualifications ( although here they were indeed on shaky ground as the majority of technical college lecturers at that time did not themselves possess qualifications in education ) . |
| 16 | Cloward and Ohlin ( 1960 ) , in a highly influential work did not themselves draw any treatment conclusions ( although their ideas inspired a major treatment programme ) . |
| 17 | He devised a system of symbols which he found in dreams to represent more unbearable things which did not themselves appear in the dreams in order not to disrupt sleep . |
| 18 | rejected the allegation that the wife 's agreement to the opening of the account had been procured by undue influence on the part of her husband , but dealt with ‘ the suggestion that the bank are disentitled to enforce the mandate because they sent or gave the document to Mr. Shephard and did not themselves obtain the defendant 's signature ’ by holding [ 1988 ] 3 All E.R. |
| 19 | FoE does , however , have sympathy for businesses exposed to liabilities because they have unknowingly become owners of contaminated land that they did not themselves pollute ; as a result , for example , of buying land defiled by a previous owner . |
| 20 | This belief , regardless of whether it was justified or not , both stopped leaders acting contrary to public opinion and persuaded citizens to accept the legitimacy of laws they did not themselves agree with . |
| 21 | Many parents and grandparents in the provinces followed ‘ the May-June events ’ on state-run television : their view of what was happening differed from that of the younger generation in Paris and university campuses across the country ; many students followed developments hour by hour on Europe I — if they did not themselves join the demonstrations and mount the barricades . |
| 22 | However , they did not themselves participate in the commission of any offence ; nor did they act as ‘ agents provocateurs ’ or incite crime . |
| 23 | We did not we think I think we thought it would be seen merely as a gesture . |
| 24 | So why , if the bugs that the sneezing man spread about the bus were the cause of the illness , did not everyone get a cold ? |
| 25 | Marx did not himself create a systematic theory of the global system , though his work certainly guided Lenin and others in their attempts to construct a theory of imperialism . |
| 26 | Although the bulk of Galileo 's scientific work was designed to strengthen the Copernican theory , Galileo did not himself devise a detailed astronomy , and seemed to follow the Aristotelians in their preference for circular orbits . |
| 27 | The devoted husband did not himself go to Cumnor , but sent his cousin , Sir Thomas Blount , to investigate . |
| 28 | If this new period brought with it a phase of Spenglerian pessimism after the long years of Victorian optimism , Toynbee did not himself assume that the West was in decline as such , but rather that paradoxically the globalization of Western civilization was being accompanied by a self-consciousness of its own cultural relativization , a process to which Toynbee 's own equally totalizing and relativizing history was designed to contribute . |
| 29 | It is not enough for the defendant to show that he was aware of the contents of what he was distributing or publishing , but did not himself think that it was insulting if the jury or magistrate should come to the conclusion that he suspected or had grounds to suspect otherwise . |
| 30 | A trustee in a sequestrated estate , part of which consisted of a public house business , who did not himself hold the certificate or retail excisable liquor , was held not to be disqualified under the corresponding provision then in force : Lundie v. Magistrates of Falkirk ( 1890 ) 18 R. 60 . |