Example sentences of "they do [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Oh I see they do n't so i No I suppose they 're bought
2 Why did they do so well ?
3 ‘ If they would n't tell us the first time , why should they do so now ? ’
4 What do they do then then ?
5 Yeah , they done very well , really .
6 Nor , in truth , had they done so often in the past .
7 Yeah , they done really well .
8 No they , they done like just like
9 Are they doing any better ?
10 what they doing down there ?
11 Why are they doing so badly ?
12 What are they doing there then ?
13 Also , while eating more healthily , they did not completely restrict favourite foods .
14 In the end only 11 per cent said they did not particularly lose more inches than previous dieting attempts had produced .
15 They did not particularly want that , but it was foisted upon them .
16 The force with which the judges made their case for Second Empire can be explained by assuming that they felt that if they did not strongly press for this form of building , another , and less welcome style in their eyes , would be adopted .
17 400e ) , they identified themselves with the state , or put themselves on a level with it : they did not openly claim to rule it .
18 According to Richards , therefore , critics need two things that they did not habitually possess at the time he was writing , and usually do not possess now : a theory of communication and a theory of valuation .
19 He came up the garden shouting something — they did not properly hear him .
20 A dedicated professional seaman , he practised his motor launches ( MLs ) , the motor gun boat ( MGB ) , and the modified motor torpedo boat ( MTB 74 ) operating in close company , manoeuvres they did not normally execute and only had a few weeks to learn .
21 They were both so angry that they did not immediately see the movement that came from the old female 's shelter in the cage between them .
22 They did not immediately sit down , but leaned on the low parapet and gazed out over the river and the mountains , she with her head inclined towards his , he with a hand resting on her shoulder .
23 They did not simply see an empty tomb and say : ‘ Coo , he must have risen ! ’
24 They did not simply speak of the human Jesus of Nazareth and of the relation of persons to him as a human .
25 They did not simply react in a uniform manner to the experience of heat .
26 Yet they did not simply follow the views of the Foreign Office where disillusionment with the USSR was rapidly increasing .
27 Furthermore , who would guess , if they did not already happen to know , that the huge sum raised by plants was the achievement and gift of one family – the Crawfords ?
28 They did not yet belong to our world and they certainly belonged to no other .
29 A Metropolitan authority said that they did not yet know how much their training allocation from the central training budget would be , as training is organized to coincide with the academic year .
30 But they did not yet feel able to go through with changes in their actual behaviour .
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