Example sentences of "do [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | and we are telling the people that they 've got the power to change it , keep telling the switchboard operators , cos ' when you press zero that actually do answer very quickly |
| 2 | ‘ We do apologize most humbly , Your Honour , ’ grovelled Miss Hardbroom , seizing Mildred 's arm in a vice-like grip . |
| 3 | Secondly , the two lines do track very closely together , but not with a twelve month lag as one might expect ; the two curves are almost superimposed . |
| 4 | This takes on an added significance when it is remembered that geriatrics and the terminally ill are regarded as the failures of the health service and are often consigned to the young and inexperienced who , as one doctor recently put it , ‘ do strive very officiously to keep people alive because they are interested scientifically and they want to use every method they can as part of their training ’ . |
| 5 | A range of oil-based stains in a reasonable choice of shades have recently appeared on the market ; these give a more even colour , but they do dry more slowly . |
| 6 | The trousers are not water resistant , but do dry very quickly when wet . |
| 7 | Cheshire 's work shows that this assumption is too simple since , for example , main verb DO and auxiliary do behave quite differently in Reading vernacular and in standard English , the patterns of variation in Reading vernacular being quite different for each of the verb-form 's two grammatical functions . |
| 8 | Indeed , there is a body of evidence ( Pidgeon 1967 ; Steedman 1980 ) which suggests that girls do achieve more highly in a single-sex environment . |
| 9 | So , do choose very carefully if you 're thinking of having replacement glazing and doors . |
| 10 | I 'm never never one for for making work but on an a on although this is n't going to be called an annual report for most children it will be an annual event and I do feel quite strongly that for the child to be able to have the opportunity |
| 11 | If you do feel very differently about money — you 're always overgrown , he knows where every penny goes — you need to work out practical ways of dealing with it . |
| 12 | However , they do grow quite quickly and one day you 'll only have one Trigger left , as the most dominant one will assert its authority . |
| 13 | Knitting for children is usually a winner , because they do grow so quickly . |
| 14 | In places the trees do grow more thickly and pines occur in some hilly areas . |
| 15 | What you do depends very much on who might be watching , often with good reason . |
| 16 | Glass and enamel tesserae , for , are uncommon in Britain — although they do occur more frequently than is sometimes suggested ( Boon 1974 , 345 ; Neal 1976 , 243 ) . |
| 17 | They may be justifications such as " stress " or " depression " and indeed these factors do feature very significantly in the lives of sufferers from addictive disease but they are consequences and not causes . |
| 18 | I think from time to time , little bits of the Government do work reasonably well , and do respond reasonably well to county council and local authority initiatives , and although I could n't pretend that a hundred and , that twenty- five thousand pounds is going to solve the unemployment problem in Wiltshire , nor indeed solve the problem being created by the run- down of defence industry , nevertheless , I think credit should be given where credit 's due . |
| 19 | ‘ Maybe , ’ she acknowledged , ‘ but I do work quite hard , and often for long hours , which means I 'm often too tired to go out . ’ |
| 20 | I do remember clearly now depressed we became as the weeks went by and we could see , looming ahead , yet another wartime winter with its accompanying cold , damp and bad news . |
| 21 | What I do remember so vividly was the great surge of relief when VE Day came , and people rushing into each other 's houses to shriek with unbounded joy : " It 's all over . |
| 22 | If the ropes do jam then please remember that the great Giusto Gervasutti met his death during just such a retrieval operation . |
| 23 | However , in the nineteenth century we do see much more clearly the rise of a concept equivalent or similar to the modern one , although the definition itself was not fully developed until the work of the American G. Stanley Hall and his colleagues in the 1890s , and first popularised in his massive book published in 1904 . |
| 24 | I do fear though somewhat , about the whole idea of too swift growth and countries being encouraged to run before they can walk . |
| 25 | so if you do believe then well , then you can believe that anything 's possible |
| 26 | In my experience there is a predominance of west to north west winds in the area which do blow hard quite often and create a permanent westerly swell on the Atlantic side . |
| 27 | For instance , a very good way is to make everything you do take twice as long as it would normally take you . |
| 28 | Old roses do mix much better , the Albas , Centifolias , Bourbons and Gallicas are happy in a mixed throng , but the H.T.s and H.T.-type Floribundas are more formal in carriage , and need a more formal setting . |
| 29 | But if you are interested in a very popular subject , such as psychology or graphic design or law , do apply as soon as possible . |
| 30 | Logically , therefore , we must conclude that since accidents do happen then either the system is faulty or someone along the line is not doing his job properly . |