Example sentences of "do they [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs . |
| 2 | ‘ Never once , during our association , did they guess that I was using them to further my revenge against the Wolfkings . |
| 3 | Were people putting their money on England , did they reckon that they were going to survive that last onslaught ? |
| 4 | Did they feel that women could n't be militant ? |
| 5 | Erm , also inclination of head towards the listener and erm erm , how did they feel that they 'd finished the erm , speaker 's intonation and a drop in volume of voice towards the end , and erm , also you 've got quite a full tags . |
| 6 | But did they realise that in trying to staunch the bleeding heart , they had administered a tourniquet to the artery of free will ? |
| 7 | But how long after did they realise that they were saving the environment by not having to dump the waste , and by using Organic Matter to help plant-life grow , rather than synthetic chemicals ? |
| 8 | Little did they think that it would still be going , if only just , well over 100 years later . |
| 9 | Nor did they think that Sri Lankans prosecuted a larger than normal proportion of true criminal cases because of their faith in the effectiveness of British justice . |
| 10 | So why did they think that they had the er means to do it in nineteen forty seven ? |
| 11 | And did they reflect that they , who had not merely mastered but discovered the much more difficult law , who had got their economics so impregnably right , would be seen to stand shining brightest of all in the very front rank ? |
| 12 | The National Industrial Relations Court found that at no stage were the employees asked if they were prepared to move to Fulham and at no stage did they indicate that they were prepared to move . |
| 13 | I was actually quite low on the activists and higher on these three but I managed to wonder sometimes where I worked ever so hard on a session I ca n't really ca n't understand you know why it 's not going very well and I thought well when I then watched other people do something that had a lot of action I thought well why did they like that more and I never I did n't know but I 've actually learnt that you have to put activities in , cos you , you know you do get people with a very strong activist preference . |
| 14 | You said about the hens making a lot , how did how did they work that as an industry with the eggs and things how did they collect and work ? |
| 15 | Nor did they consider that there was any irrationality in the verdict which the jury gave . |
| 16 | The two American researchers say that , despite some of the workers having 20 years ' experience in the electricity industry , none of the workers had heard of sulphur hexafluoride , nor did they know that their work could lead to exposure to irritant gases . |
| 17 | Little did they know that it was for the pocket of Mr S. Caplan . |
| 18 | Little did they know that shortly after the conference their services would be required in the lounge of a local public house by a group of frustrated dykes and an infuriated publican . |
| 19 | And did they know that they would get some money when he died ? ’ |
| 20 | Little did they know that what Koo was in fact telling Mo was much more to do with the Royal Wee . |
| 21 | Little did they know that they would be stepping into Hunter and Rae Brown 's shoes less than a year later ! |
| 22 | ‘ You mean how did they know that today was a big one ? ’ |
| 23 | What did they know that I did n't ? |
| 24 | Little did they know that that was the last thing the kickers were intending to do , for what is the point of conceding a lineout that the opponents will probably win ? |
| 25 | Did they know that you went ? |
| 26 | Did they know that they we , these were coming down ? |
| 27 | Little did they realize that the individual was crucifying herself inside ’ . |
| 28 | Do they show that learners follow a natural order in the internalization of the language system ? |
| 29 | And too late do they discover that the flame burns and is lethal . |
| 30 | Or do they admit that the Rural Scheme is simply a rate-paid organisation to amuse well-educated people in their years of retirement . |