Example sentences of "do [adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do rather resent it when there are other council committees , there 's Town Hall Strategy Working Party in the afternoon , now if we 're going to be sure that we can all get to this without conflict with other committees , erm I had to be there on behalf of the Lord Mayor because she had duties , erm and I was very sorry not to be able to come , because I have dealt , visited many occupational , I wanted to visit the officers , and you know , it is n't always possible where you have a conflict of interests . |
| 2 | And when they do eventually make it , they 're really , really good . ’ |
| 3 | I think there 's something that we have n't discussed , and that 's that , doctors do n't seem to prescribe tranquillizers to men , it 's women , and they do wrongly prescribe them to women . |
| 4 | Pouring out of thanks for the young Timothy who spent the time in prayer if you wish to say a short simple prayer of thanks do so end it thank you God and we 'll all join in thank you God . |
| 5 | I 'm so frightened the feeling will go away , it 's too fragile , and I do so want it not to break . |
| 6 | I do so want you to learn , my dear , ’ and , turning away , she half whispered , ‘ There is so much pleasure , so much pleasure to be gained by the informed . ’ |
| 7 | The common factor is that we do so perceive them ! |
| 8 | B : [ pragmatically interpreted particle ] the milkman came at some time prior to the time of speaking Yet it is clear to native speakers that what would ordinarily be communicated by such an exchange involves considerably more , along the lines of the italicized material in ( 3 ) : ( 3 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time of the present moment , as standardly indicated on a watch , and if so please do so tell me B : No I do n't know the exact time of the present moment , but I can provide some information from which you may be able to deduce the approximate time , namely the milkman has come ( see R. Lakoff , 1973a ; Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 172ff for a discussion of such examples ) . |
| 9 | I do so hope he ignores my advice . |
| 10 | ‘ I do so hope you 'll be here . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Then keep your hands from him until I do so bid you . ’ |
| 12 | I get very uptight over what to say without upsetting him , so when we do finally talk I end up saying the wrong things . |
| 13 | There 'll be a fucking explosion one of these days when you do finally Do It . |
| 14 | Then I do normally watch it with you . |
| 15 | Nevertheless do not tell me of it , even to confirm me ; for it is what we can not analyse or arrange , any more than the rich simplicity of childhood . |
| 16 | Do not tell me that they are old ideas . |
| 17 | Please do not tell me that the object of professional boxing is to accumulate points by touching parts of the opponent 's head . |
| 18 | ‘ You question me as though I were a pedlar but you do not tell me what you are doing in the forest . |
| 19 | Do not tell me that Sir Alexander Ramsay of Dalwolsey , renowned in the ranks of chivalry , has been deprived of all dealings with the female kind ? |
| 20 | You do not tell me the depth of your pond , but shallow ponds ( if yours is indeed shallow ) are much more prone to algal infestation because they warm up so much more quickly and have such a large surface area in relation to volume . |
| 21 | Foolish because if you do not tell me , I have the power to take you away from the river bank , away from the sun and light , and shut you in the caracol for ever . ’ |
| 22 | If candidates ' responses do not tell you what you need to know then follow up your initial question with a more specific one . |
| 23 | The only problem with them is that they do not tell you how . |
| 24 | We do not tell you the location of these areas , nor do we tell you which pennant is in which combat zone . |
| 25 | Unless we make it trivially true that gold is malleable , by explicitly including malleability in our idea of it , we can perceive no connection between the ideas of gold and malleability ; our observation and experiment do not tell us that gold must be malleable ; we have no knowledge that it is . |
| 26 | The Minutes do not tell us in what Mr R — — — ‘ s ‘ misconduct ’ consisted and he is heard of no more . |
| 27 | But they do not tell us much about how more complex cognitive processes take place . |
| 28 | While examination results alone do not tell us much about the nature of the educational crisis , they are useful indicators of the extent of the problem : undoubtedly school conditions and the situation of teachers have affected their outcomes . |
| 29 | Léandre Schlegel ( 1844–1913 ) is represented by the sixth , somewhat characterless , piece of Der arme Peter , which I assume to be a ‘ suite ’ of some sort ( Willem Noske 's otherwise intelligent and informative notes do not tell us ) . |
| 30 | But these caricatures do not tell us much about what is going on with real , complex individuals behind the scenes . |