Example sentences of "they do [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd have been worried sick about her , and what could they do so many miles away ? |
| 2 | Oh , why have n't they done as many as last year ? |
| 3 | ‘ Other British sports are much worse off than athletics but are they doing as much as we are to put things right ? |
| 4 | They did not all give up there and then , but presumably went on to take the test again and eventually to pass — many of them at the second attempt . |
| 5 | They did not all put it quite as bluntly as William 11 , but there existed a European society of kings which had real importance for its members . |
| 6 | Through conversation , it was soon realised that although consultants welcomed the concept of the educational supervisor theoretically , they did not all wish to be burdened with this increased responsibility . |
| 7 | Honest enquirers , like the lawyer who asked him about the greatest commandment , were impressed and attracted by his Bible-based teaching ( though , as with the rich young ruler , they did not all respond to it positively ) . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , they did not all take their studies very seriously and some of the bruising battle scenes , including a duel that went disastrously wrong on the first night , attracted misplaced laughter . |
| 9 | I mean seven years continual dredging for seven years apart from a month they in dock and you were taking out eight hundred tonne every hopper load and some days you were doing five loads and sometimes four loads , was a lot of mud we dumped so much mud out at erm near the Cork Lightship , now you would think they would level theirself off would n't you and if they did n't that up . |
| 10 | Besides , those old Junker — ’ she was about to say all those Junker but in deference to Omi did not — ‘ they did n't all look nice . |
| 11 | They did n't all let go at once but only when they could hold on no longer . |
| 12 | In other words while the public may have all watched the same news they did n't all see it in the same way . |
| 13 | She wondered why they did n't all run together in the middle . |
| 14 | They did n't all desert their girlfriends when they became pregnant , some have remained to provide crucial emotional and practical support . |
| 15 | The fact that no one laughed out loud at this remark suggested to Charles that they did n't all share his view of the man . |
| 16 | Well they did n't this year . |
| 17 | ‘ People have moaned about a Harlequins bias in the current England team , but they did alright this year did n't they ? |
| 18 | I say , they did just that , they sold up , moved down to Cornwall where her mum lives and bought a much smaller place . |
| 19 | That 's all is easy , it swallows up an inflation and in fact all those many years ago when there was a a socialist government seems a long since , like a bad dream now does n't it , but when there was a socialist government , they did just this . |
| 20 | Therefore , they decided to put their energy into a battle they could only lose , and not just because of television but also because they did so little on their own account to improve the cinemas , and to provide an environment which would lure potential audiences away from their increasingly comfortable homes . |
| 21 | Erm , first the district did it and erm they did n't want it so then it was decided to have , to share it with county and that was a disaster too and they did so many cuts each a year and then county took it over . |
| 22 | They did so this time without the usual , drum-beating , bugleblowing support of a packed ground that Vivian Richards had identified as a vital source of inspiration to his teams . |
| 23 | They , indeed , were the first animals to master flight and they did so some two hundred million years before birds managed to do the same thing . |
| 24 | And the accusation against several of them , including the Prime Minister , is that they did precisely that . |
| 25 | They did as much if not more for the internal cohesion of antislavery as in impressing the outside world . |
| 26 | Drexel 's 11,000 ex-employees may not be drawn from the rainbow coalition , but lots of consumers and workers in America have reason to like some of what they did very much . |
| 27 | her parents , but they , they do n't have their friends , in fact I 'm not sure that they did very much at all , I think that Myrie meant it when she said that what they wanted was the most peaceful sort of Christmas that you could possibly imagine , with no big teas , big meals or anything |
| 28 | I really just wanted to see er just wanted to see the sort of range of things they did now this is more like it you see Effective Writing , Report Writing , Technical Report Writing , Business Sales Corres , Editing House Journals Writing for Publication , Desk Top Publishing , things like working with the media these are more the sort of things that I would see people |
| 29 | She cooked the turkey and booted the uncles ' wives out of her way when they came cluttering into the kitchen trying to help , i.e. interfere , which they did unfailingly each year . |
| 30 | To the extent that functioning markets have emerged — notably in the car parks of every big city — they do little more than recycle the small supply of consumer goods . |