Example sentences of "do [vb infin] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike Descartes , who felt the need to prove their existence , and Malebranche , who was certain he could not , Locke simply had no doubt that material things existed and caused our ideas : ‘ The actual receiving of ideas from without … makes us know , that something doth exist at that time without us , which causes that idea in us . ’ |
| 2 | vii , ‘ One woe doth tread upon another 's heel ’ , DS 61 . |
| 3 | What will he do look for another or |
| 4 | I was gon na do look in that did you say you looked in that Argos book for darts did you , or ? |
| 5 | So we well this week on Tuesday we 're erm going swim and spa and Rosemary and Anne and all them er Maggie they 're , they are all there so this is what we 're gon na do try for this week and see what it 's like , you know go through all the system there . |
| 6 | In many societies , the clothing , ornaments and tools belonging to an individual may be considered so integral to him or her that to touch or do harm to these inanimate objects is considered indistinguishable from taking the same action against the person . |
| 7 | March wind doth blow for some time to come , according to the coastguard , and believe me it blows hellish hard round Gullholm . ’ |
| 8 | Just pause there what do think about that girl being tipped out of the bed ? |
| 9 | You , you actually , the estimators do think about these things , believe it or not . |
| 10 | ‘ You do think of all the might have beens , ’ Sandra admits . |
| 11 | So do think of that . |
| 12 | If we do think in this unilinear way , we will be inclined to dismiss or devalue evidence that is important for our understanding of language history , just as some of our predecessors have done . |
| 13 | The serfs had swallowed the slaves , a process made hopelessly obscure by the fact that the same word , servus , often did service for both . |
| 14 | ( I did think about that one . ) |
| 15 | We did think about this point last night . |
| 16 | I did consult with many other people ; my thanks to all of them even if their suggestions could not be taken up . |
| 17 | The particular clays he has in mind do exist in many different crystalline forms . |
| 18 | Of course , these conditions do exist in some schools and in some classrooms already . |
| 19 | While the exercise about to be described was a theoretical model , not an empirical test , its results indicate that positive NPV opportunities probably do exist in some ‘ cash cows ’ and that an integration of DCF and portfolio-grid analyses may lead to a more careful and sophisticated use of portfolio grids . |
| 20 | In the long term , yes , but what we 're currently doing as part of the assessment of the Finmere application is just checking the resources that do exist in those four areas , to , to make sure that we 're still able to meet our targets . |
| 21 | The planets and moons that do remain within this range have to be just the right distance from the right size of star , and should also be spinning , otherwise the side facing the star becomes extremely hot , and the other side extremely cold . |
| 22 | What did remain in that paper , that year , was a hankering after what had survived from 1967 , exemplified in the prose of John Peel . |
| 23 | All this is said so nonchalantly , with so much gazing across the water and into the cloudy sky , that a spectator might be convinced we really did bump into each other in our lunch break . |
| 24 | We shall see , by the end of this book , that a simple and practical distinction between fabliau and exemplum can be drawn , but that the same stories often do service in both categories . |
| 25 | Er it 's difficult for people to appreciate today er the amount of political activity that took place during this early thirty period , and it 's pe difficult for people to appreciate the political understanding that did exist over this period . |
| 26 | To be sure , bitterness which did exist in some quarters between Protestants and Catholics both then and now has not affected Jews , thankfully . |
| 27 | It did exist in those parts of ‘ modernizing ’ industry which were part of the engineering industry and involved skilled labour in manufacture , as distinct from the Fordist production practices of process plants . |
| 28 | It seems to me the only people who do persist in that phase and make something tenable out of an unsatisfied , unsettled life , are rock musicians , and rock critics . |
| 29 | I do apologize , I really do apologize for that . |
| 30 | But as I say , I do apologize for that , it 's unnecessarily complicated . |