Example sentences of "do [vb infin] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do think visitors to this country like to know they 're in Scotland , especially in a large hotel like the Sheraton where you could be anywhere . ’ |
| 2 | As mentioned earlier , social services departments can and do make adaptations to premises to make life easier for the disabled person . |
| 3 | For example a couple of weeks ago there was a thing on tit for tat and this week there 's a fascinating thing on snakes and female sexuality which erm illustrates er some of the points I 'll be , I 'll , I 'll be making and although as Sue rightly says erm , most of the articles in Nature are rather technical and difficult to understand if you 're not a specialist they do make concessions to the rest of us by publishing very often erm summaries er in the first part of the journal erm and there is one on this and er I can recommend that . |
| 4 | However , those differences which do exist point to JC rather than any other Creole as the focus . |
| 5 | Hard to explain the conflict in our acquaintance , but perhaps I had an instinctive feeling that she , in fact , wanted me to go to bed with her , and she knew I would n't — because if I did make love to her , it would be a victory for her and a defeat for me . |
| 6 | ‘ Roman did make love to you while I was spending his money , did n't he ? ’ |
| 7 | Staring from the window , her mouth curved in a smile , she wondered what he would say if she told him that if he did make love to her he would be the first . |
| 8 | At the end of our statement sir we we did make reference to the er er removal possible removal of the article fourteen . |
| 9 | Mr Jones said : ‘ He did make reference to the letter in the speech that he made and he did make positive noises but whether they will translate into positive actions we 'll have to wait and see . ’ |
| 10 | On the other hand , you do need guidelines to work to . |
| 11 | Erm please give a bit more of the just support we need , we literally , we do need bodies , we do need people to actually come along . |
| 12 | As companies that do fall victim to computer crime prefer to deal with the problem internally , personnel security may well turn out to be the most vital component in a firm 's defences . |
| 13 | We , when the papers for this Committee were made public , we did alert people to them , the potential erm , effects of these proposals . |
| 14 | Well I mean , he did we , he we , he did send letters to the council . |
| 15 | Because the insulating characteristics of timber-frame houses are so good they do give rise to the problem known as ‘ interstitial condensation ’ , as was revealed in the television documentary . |
| 16 | However , some contracts not currently recognised do give rise to firm commitments — for example , both operating and finance leases commonly do so , and under the principles in the chapter , the assets and liabilities stemming from both should be recognised . |
| 17 | I wonder how many teachers do give consideration to ‘ what the boys will like ’ when choosing a class text , and expect the girls to be more tolerant of the choice made . |
| 18 | People do give support to their kin but they do so in a way which is patchy , possibly idiosyncratic , and which certainly can not be predicted simply from knowing how they are related to each other . |
| 19 | Yet we do give subsidies to one group of workers , our farmers . |
| 20 | They do give weight to the judgements of the most aware , those who have educated themselves to discriminate between flavours most accurately . |
| 21 | Things on TV do give ideas to people . |
| 22 | My father did give money to the Arabs to keep his head . ’ |
| 23 | He did give power to schools and parents , but that made him enemies . |
| 24 | But , but , he did win four tournaments , he did finish second to Norman on the money list , and he did end his season with a startlingly brilliant final round , an 8-under par 63 at the Champions course in Houston to give him third place in the rich Nabisco Championships . |
| 25 | Erm , whilst those credit approvals do bring reimbursement to the council over time , the equivalent amount to grant in broad terms . |
| 26 | Twenty two points in the final quarter underlined Bangor 's superiority , but did scant justice to a gutsy defensive show by Collegians in the first half . |
| 27 | They do run counter to the views about national sovereignty held by most peoples in Europe , not just the British . |
| 28 | It is in fact NACAB policy that advice workers should be able to carry out some limited counselling functions and they do run training to that end . |
| 29 | Thus , even when they do provide employment to otherwise unemployed people , they do so primarily to unregistered part-time job seekers . |
| 30 | However , it did draw attention to an important point that seemed to have eluded positivist correctionalism : crime does not have a blanket , objective status that enables us automatically to be against it regardless of what ‘ it ’ is . |