Example sentences of "do [noun] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Do birds like those strawberries very much ? ’
2 Only rarely do plans consider more than the simple spatial attributes of the housing stock .
3 How do chains move relative to each other ?
4 Do housewives envy working mothers ?
5 Third , do parties put forward programmes of policies that are " different " and offer a real choice , and is it the case that the winning party carries out its programme if elected to office ?
6 Do schools pay sufficient attention to the match between the taught health education curriculum and the hidden curriculum of the school ethos ?
7 ‘ There 's never anything thrown away , ’ Cathy said , ‘ when we do trips like this . ’
8 ‘ Why do Beefeaters wear those silly hats and hang around the Tower of London ?
9 Three interesting questions arise : why do Blacks have higher arrest rates in the lighter areas than in the darker areas ?
10 Do governments do that ?
11 Why do bands make these amateurish , plodding ‘ live ’ videos ?
12 They do tracks like that , do n't they ?
13 How do plants survive hot dry conditions ?
14 erm to go to another famous bio-plan , I pondered for a time about why does the bio-plan of insects insist on having six legs , after all we do n't have six legs , why do insects have six legs ?
15 Do individuals lose all sense of time and become erratic , or do they maintain a rhythmicity in their lifestyle and bodily functions ?
16 • Why do individuals have free-running rhythms that differ in length ?
17 Only after a considerable period of experience do infants give clear signs that they are aware of the extent of their own bodies and the division between themselves and the wider world .
18 How do things determine one another ? — and Poulantzas himself intensifies the difficulty by using these terms in an alarmingly general fashion .
19 Right up until I was n't able to do any more and able to , like all engineers you get most of the men when you get to the stage where you 're not able to crawl under cars and do things like that so you you find another bu business , we went into sales and , and er accessories , stores and that I 've been in all that line in the last twenty years before I retired .
20 do things like that .
21 I mean if you do things like that while improving infrastructure , erm , setting up credit , government credit facilities , er , so , so , so we can lend , we could lend money to small farms .
22 Little boys always do things like that mummy .
23 Cos I 'm a bit worried we got ta get things sorted out so I rang I said I did n't to get onto you , she said no I know how they feel she said her granddad always do things like that .
24 Oh I do I sort of I do do things like that .
25 Because they do things like that at customs because they 're looking , they 're always looking for drugs and things that should n't come in .
26 It leaves it unsolved , but all right , given that our ancestors had this because they wanted to swim sinusoidally and eat , you know , filter feed and do things like that , we do n't swim sinusoidally and filter feed why on earth do we are we so conservative ?
27 The one machine is a series of linked pedals on a bar , so it tells you how to edge , how to unweight and do things like that .
28 And you do things like two lots of six makes twelve and six lots of two makes twelve .
29 ‘ People , who are grown-up , who do things like this to children , are wicked .
30 We do things like this because we have always done it that way .
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