Example sentences of "what they do [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that 's just the point — it 's dismal and bleak and they 're frozen stiff , hoping to catch Ramirez in the stake- out and barely able to express anything , but what they do express is infinitely lugubrious and despondent . |
| 2 | Neither dark nor dumb ceremonies , but … so set forth that every man may understand what they do mean , and to what use they do serve . |
| 3 | A dispute over what they do mean is , in principle , like a legal dispute over the meaning of a statute . |
| 4 | What they do suggest indirectly , however , is that the economic rhetoric and even the orthodox economic beliefs of politicians bear nothing like a direct relationship to economic reality . |
| 5 | what , what they do want . |
| 6 | Grades are more to be blamed for what they do not do than for what they do do . |
| 7 | But the thing is , what they do tend to do is , they suddenly find themselves in a panic because they 've behaved like this about it and the person at the other end is shouting when are you coming to see this organ |
| 8 | What they do present , like those of Gombert or Clemens non Papa , is a superb display of Netherland polyphony of the post-Josquin period from the freest to the strictest , though sometimes more declamatory and expressive , more ‘ madrigalian ’ , than theirs . |
| 9 | We are very prone to pontificate about what teachers should think about but we do not really know what they do think about : we formulate issues on their behalf . |
| 10 | Would it be out of order to ask what they do get paid , or what they did get paid ? |
| 11 | ‘ You 'm do n't want to be believing what they do write in they newspapers ma'am ’ , exclaimed the sergeant , but his visitor was not listening . |
| 12 | What they do fall off the back of a lorry ? |
| 13 | From the evidence that is available there seems to be some doubt about whether inspection is methodologically sound ( though this is mainly based on what the inspectors fail to say rather than what they do say ) . |
| 14 | But that 's what they do say , that it it sometimes works quicker . |
| 15 | What they do say is that the close coupling and phasing between the coprocessor and main processor makes a dramatic difference to coprocessor intensive applications , such as CAD , and will make a substantial difference to other coprocessor applications . |
| 16 | The Cockcroft Committee pointed out that , for pupils with very low scores in GCE and CSE examinations , much could be said about what they do n't know , but little about what they do know . |
| 17 | And they do n't want to put down what they do know cos they think it 's obvious . |
| 18 | What they do have , though , is a still-blossoming talent and an evident euphoric thrill of being on the stage . |
| 19 | Victor and his parents have precious little but what they do have is — us ! |
| 20 | What they do have in common is that in all cases industry will be looking for the location where it can make the best profit . |
| 21 | Oh , I see ah I thought they had sort of you know like fairy tales , you can see through the wall , that 's what they do put a camera in in , anyway it was rather funny and those birds come out and grow up quite quite wonderful . |
| 22 | I mean a visit to the council to find out exactly what they do take would be |
| 23 | I tell you what they do sell over there , ever so cheap jam and marmalade . |
| 24 | What they do see is a high-energy electron ( positron ) that appears to come from the decay of a W - ( W - ) . |
| 25 | What they do see me doing is the school run , shopping , cooking their meals and running the household . |
| 26 | But on the whole once I 've got talking it 's been very successful , and people are always amazed at what they do remember in great detail about how they got things , why they got them , when they got them , and I think by and large the people that I have talked to have found it very interesting to do for themselves as well as for me . |
| 27 | What they do find difficult is filling their day once they have actually come off drugs because they have built up a kind of lifestyle that has already been said |
| 28 | What they do maintain is that a vividly told story can make an important contribution to our knowledge of how and why strikes occur . |
| 29 | But what they do ask for , and what we should be calling to this government to honour the existing contracts at Swan Hunters , to allow the workers at Swan to complete the work on the three vessels already in the river . |