Example sentences of "do they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember the the boat 's been filling with water , they 've been bailing out in desperation , after they 'd done everything that they can do they then turn round and said , Lord , do n't you care we 're gon na drown ? |
| 2 | ( I had better say now that readers who identify the I of the Sonnets with Shakespeare 's own personality not only encourage that futility of speculation about the identity of a real-life ‘ Friend ’ and ‘ Dark Lady ’ which has pestered discussions of these poems for so long , and is now in the last stages of senility ; but in so doing they also destroy one of the essential principles of literary criticism in modern times , the independence of the I in lyric poetry , its existence as a persona or mask behind which the poet is free to impersonate any human situation without being identified with each or all of the mutations — often contradictory — taken on by his persona . ) |
| 3 | Only after ‘ tedious battering the top thereof with pick-axes ’ did they eventually undermine two of its six sides bringing them down and leaving the tower in the state in which it is today . |
| 4 | Did they also wonder if they had anything to learn from them ? |
| 5 | Did they also have a revolver each ? |
| 6 | Did they even attend the mosque on a regular basis ? |
| 7 | Nor , it seemed , did they even suspect the existence of Station X. After all , Bletchley was an important railway junction , and the lines gleaming in the moonlight could have been an aid to enemy reconnaissance planes and bombers . |
| 8 | Soon did they soon take up enough he used to go on board with his book and get it signed by the mate or the er captain of the ship . |
| 9 | And yet , ’ Corbett laughed abruptly , ‘ did they just offer their throats to the murderer ? ’ |
| 10 | And then how , did they just vote for them ? |
| 11 | So did they just keep the hotel open all year for these visitors ? |
| 12 | did they , or did they just like , did they just look at the colour and the shape of it , and the style of it ? |
| 13 | So did they just have you on right away ? |
| 14 | Did they just pack up one day and go back to Germany ? |
| 15 | And and was i how did you work it , was it like a certain amount of men per lorry or did they just come in convoy ? |
| 16 | And what happened at the changeover , did they just fire you all and then reinstate you ? |
| 17 | did they , or did they just like , did they just look at the colour and the shape of it , and the style of it ? |
| 18 | So I went and he er , and she goes er , and did they both pass ? |
| 19 | And did they both get married ? |
| 20 | But were they were faking — did they simply have better memories ? |
| 21 | While they , unlike Feuerbach , certainly did not intend to turn theology into anthropology , did they nevertheless risk doing precisely that ? |
| 22 | Reviewing national programmes , however , raises key and difficult questions for both donors ( why did they not co-operate more effectively ? ) and recipients ( how could they justify a range of prestige projects ? why are they more dependant on aid than ever ? ) |
| 23 | Did they not bother ? |
| 24 | Did they not tell you that you might be held ? |
| 25 | Did they not tell you that ? |
| 26 | Did they not tell each other ? |
| 27 | Why did they not give tea parties for their own men ( if they were able to find any ) ? |
| 28 | Why did they not give her toys to play with ? |
| 29 | Why , for example , did they not make more of the greater physique and technique of their battle-hardened pack ? |
| 30 | Did they not feel the pressure of hopes raised , of hungry naked children waiting for them to move their pens ? |