Example sentences of "they do [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a question , ’ Loppe said , ‘ whether it would not be cheaper to let them do all the refining . |
| 2 | While the Baby Bells try to sell corporate customers advanced services using their own networks , AT&T offers the same lot of customers PABXs which allow them to do exactly the same things . |
| 3 | Did n't they do just the same with the Community Care Act ? |
| 4 | However they were threatened that if they did not the Abbey would be burnt down . |
| 5 | Having disposed of Chertsey and Witney , they did much the same in the fourth qualifying round against Marlow , equalising at home in the 82nd minute and winning the replay 2-1 with a goal in the 90th . |
| 6 | Having disposed of Chertsey and Witney , they did much the same in the fourth qualifying round against Marlow , equalising at home in the 82nd minute and winning the replay 2-1 with a goal in the 90th . |
| 7 | Jazzbeaux heard they did much the same thing in Jap corp boardrooms . |
| 8 | The long back legs of such hunters look highly suitable for running , and as they did so the long tail may have been held erect as a kind of counter-balance ( see p. 116 ) . |
| 9 | The World Championships crept gradually nearer , and as they did so the relay running order began to get to me . |
| 10 | As they did so the distant flame shot higher and widened . |
| 11 | As they did so the spotlights , under the control of the newsreel cameras , swung round to illuminate the fracas , leaving Mosley in twilight . |
| 12 | Of course , the holders of irredeemable stock were not obliged to exchange it for South Sea stock , but as fast as they did so the company would issue an equal amount of its stock . |
| 13 | Well I thought the sa I mean eve that last thing they did there the Starlight Express thing , I did n't have a clue what that was about . |
| 14 | And they do n't the T Q M stuff 'll be er I do n't know what we 're gon na do with that . |
| 15 | What they do n't need , they do n't the old lathery legs |
| 16 | They do just the same . |
| 17 | If they do not the risks are considerable as decisions may be made without the benefit of comprehensive observations and specialist experience . |
| 18 | If they do not the court may hold a rule invalid . |
| 19 | In short , things had gone much as they do when the counties canter out against the varsities these days . |
| 20 | The sun 's rays have to travel through more of the Earth 's absorbent atmosphere to reach these areas than they do when the sun is overhead , resulting in a drop in temperature as winter approaches . |
| 21 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |
| 22 | they let them go out and they do n't know where they are , but the majority of of children that do it year in and running up to Christmas time they do exactly the same at Christmas , |
| 23 | Unfortunately they say one thing , but they do exactly the opposite and whereas local authorities are in a position to in the main to provide rental accommodation , the government are stopping them . |
| 24 | As they do so the male arches his back and draws his sexual opening adjacent to that of the female . |
| 25 | As they do so the Talabec deposits the black soil of the Middle Mountains and a vast area of mud-flats is formed . |
| 26 | These elephants are trained to make obeisance to the Sultan and incline their heads , and when they do so the Chamberlain cries in a loud voice : ‘ Bismillah ! ’ |
| 27 | Like their fairy-tale sister , they do all the boring but crucial jobs — looking after the keyboard and screen , filing and retrieving data — but get few thanks for it . |
| 28 | Food processors have revolutionised some people 's lives because they take all the effort out of preparing food , as they do all the chopping , slicing , grating , blending , whisking , and kneading incredibly fast . |
| 29 | Successful salesmen in bucket shops scorn weak or moralising colleagues , just as they do all the clients . |
| 30 | ‘ They do all the performing and I just sit around watching them ! ’ |