Example sentences of "do [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know , but I 'm there on my own I can pot do my hair , do what I wan na do go up the stairs , have a bath , you know , just do what I , drop my clothes where I wan na drop them and everything . |
| 2 | ( It was later to do work for the Independent . ) |
| 3 | Because I when you do think about the word then you leave some of the letters out . |
| 4 | I know it is a terribly sexist remark but I do think of the machines in our first workshop as old ladies . |
| 5 | But before you do think of the following : |
| 6 | ‘ Oh Lydia , ’ said Betty , ‘ you do think of the weirdest things . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I do think in the last couple of months he 's gone too far . |
| 8 | Such prodigies were invariably pupils of the three most prominent schools of the area — Queen 's , Dale and Selborne — whose monumental inter-school rivalries were temporarily suspended when their products did service for the province . |
| 9 | Er , we did sample of the regional wines , last night erm . |
| 10 | Some data points do plot below the zone and this is attributed with some confidence to poor reliability of measurement in these few particular wells . |
| 11 | Arguing from silence is dangerous , but had he played a significant role in Cnut 's Scandinavian wars of c.1025-8 ( see below ) information about it might have been expected to survive , and so he perhaps did disappear from the scene soon after 1023 . |
| 12 | So here ended my first tour and I could not claim that I ever actually had a clear view of any German target , save that which we did locate with the aid of Jimmy Marks ' experiment northeast of Rotterdam in mid-June 1940 . |
| 13 | ‘ Our senses … do convey into the mind , several distinct perceptions of things … and thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow , white , [ etc . ] ’ |
| 14 | And we were looking at how this top corner of the map related to the surrounding that those those erm reference points east north and west do relate to the open land outside of that . |
| 15 | He did research on the detection of foetal abnormalities at St Bartholomew 's , then moved to the Royal Free Hospital and began his crusade to offer women a more holistic approach to giving birth . |
| 16 | Of the scientists Margaret Sharman did research in the Department of Zoology at Oxford , Monica Shorten worked on rat control in the Bureau of Animal Population and Jean Stanier worked on a nutritional survey at the National Institute for Research in Dairying at Reading . |
| 17 | You did research in the States . |
| 18 | It can not be , he says , that ‘ figure , motion , and the rest of the primary or original qualities do exist without the mind … [ while ] colours , sounds , heat , cold , and such like secondary qualities … are sensations existing in the mind alone ’ , for ‘ extension , figure , and motion , abstracted from all other qualities , are inconceivable ’ . |
| 19 | Such links do exist at the present time , but they are the exception rather than the norm . |
| 20 | If we examine the three morbidity indicators shown in table 9.3 , which do exist in the RAWP report , we see cases where the differences are consistently larger than for the SMRs . |
| 21 | The schemes that do exist in the private market for pensions are related to purchasing power — so inequalities in earnings will be reflected in life after retirement , whilst those without the power to buy a pension will become increasingly dependent on the low rates obtainable from state pensions and means tested benefits . |
| 22 | In general , however , despite the fact that anachronisms do exist in the published text of the Kanunname , there seems to be good reason for supposing the provisions in it concerning the learned hierarchy to be basically genuine . |
| 23 | The frequency and volume of business material , not all of which falls into the legal deposit category , means that gaps do exist in the business collection . |
| 24 | Despite all the bad news , opportunities do exist in the US . |
| 25 | One might try to construct formal models in which the phrases of ( 15 ) and others receive distinct representations , on the grounds that differences do exist in the types of situation which the phrases correspond to , and indeed such attempts have been made ( cf. for example Kamp , 1975 ) ; but this is quite a different matter from trying to model the syntax by which the phrases are assembled as phrases . |
| 26 | But some of the problems , particularly those of provision of hospital services in inner-city areas , do arise from the progressive reallocation of funds since the introduction of RAWP . |
| 27 | I did knock at the door , then , when there was no response , took a couple of steps through into a passage floored with stone slabs and containing nothing but some buckets of coal and a rack of ancient clothes , gardening clobber by the look of it . |
| 28 | However one senior member of staff , who preferred not to be named , said great bitterness did remain over the regional health authority 's veto on a merger with MEHT . |
| 29 | He had not been well early in the previous year , and decided to resign as Chairman , though he did remain on the Board for five more years as the Goldsmiths ' nominee . |
| 30 | In Northern Nigeria power did remain in the hands of the Residents , because they possessed historical claims to legitimacy as the standard-bearers of Indirect Rule — a point always emphasized by Palmer in his dealings with junior officers — and because they were linked with the top men in a congeries of feudal autocracies . |