Example sentences of "they do [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mike Gatting and Co. disgraced cricket in 1987 they did no get fined . |
| 2 | But they did dramatically increase the number of persons and groups of persons who recognized a bond with the crown through fidelity . |
| 3 | The expansion of American medical research , much of the finest quality , attracted European doctors who aspired to a scientific career , and they did well to spend a year or two in an American laboratory , or even to emigrate there altogether . |
| 4 | they did well to beat Notts County did n't they ? |
| 5 | They did eventually go out of the house but he was about done and then he comes in five to seven . |
| 6 | ‘ If you were wrong , and they did somehow manage to organise a revolution … |
| 7 | The same theme recurred frequently ; because arts students had few timetabled hours , science students tended to assume that they did little work , although one first-year physical science student did note that most of her work was done in lectures and labs , while many girls on her corridor had a lot of background work to do outside timetabled sessions . |
| 8 | They did however feel that it was worth coordinating the acquisition of reference material and the retention of periodical titles . |
| 9 | They did however have the convenience of a rear entrance . |
| 10 | They did however state that there might be a ‘ Regional role in coordinating discussions at District level ’ , owing to ‘ the special problems faced by Friern and Claybury with their relatively fragmented catchment areas ’ . |
| 11 | The windows had been broken years ago but the railway company had boarded the frames up with wooden battens which were very effective ; they did however allow a view into the building and although the children could see in they were fascinated with the place and were happy playing in the cutting . |
| 12 | You was n't allowed to smoke — that was one privilege they did normally let you have : if you were over fourteen you were allowed up to four cigarettes a day . |
| 13 | The score was 288 when Smith departed for 57 , and if the last wickets did not pile on the pressure they did enough to give England a lead of exactly 200 . |
| 14 | When they did enough to earn wages , they were allowed to keep or spend half , the other half being saved for them on their release . |
| 15 | I mean when our researchers were doing our London Guide for nineteen ninety one , they did actually make that point that erm they reckoned that things were overpriced in London . |
| 16 | Last last time I was er resting was er about sixteen months ago and er I actually applied and got pretty far down the line er for a position within Woolworths only to find that er when they stated that they wanted people between the ages of twenty eight and thirty five they did actually mean that . |
| 17 | Sometimes the deed is a substitute for thought , and so it is likely that there was a primal crime ; they did actually kill the father and devour him . |
| 18 | It has to though because if in the pa if they 've had this long-term sort of culture for all this time they need to be given ideas but essentially if their traditional values were so strong they would have rejected what the Communist Party was trying to say , but because they accepted it it meant they ha they did actually have the potential to be revolutionary . |
| 19 | They would have planned to have won only about half the amount of possession that they did actually get and still hoped to have been in front . |
| 20 | Umbrellas could be made of oiled cloth , so that they did incidentally hold off the rain . |
| 21 | Towards the end of the 1870s they did gradually become more outspoken in pressing the case for tariff protection and against any legislation which would interfere with their rights as employers . |
| 22 | ( He was n't really lying — they did often think of it even if they did n't get down to it . ) |
| 23 | Whoever was on duty would move gently any part of the affected limb , trying as they did so to persuade Jimbo that now the pain was gone he might — I did not dare to say ‘ would ’ — be free soon to walk normally . |
| 24 | The circumstances under which they did so do not appear from the report of the case . |
| 25 | The Divisional Court upheld the scheme adopted by the GLC but the ground on which they did so seemed to be no more than that ‘ since the LTE could exercise its function to balance its revenue account by a grant from the GLC , a policy that reduced fares by means of such a grant was not unlawful ’ . |
| 26 | When Alan Cairns and other leading ministers opposed the candidacy of William McCrea and James McClelland they did so to preserve the interests of the Free Church and not to aid the DUP by reducing the public presence of Free Presbyterianism in the lists of candidates . |
| 27 | All that mattered to these people was to kill ; how they did so had little significance . |
| 28 | When early Christians adopted the pagan altar they did so to represent the table of the Last Supper and placed upon it a white cloth symbolic of the Shroud . |
| 29 | The fact that they did so makes Mary 's minority fall so clearly into two distinct parts . |
| 30 | No I think they did so dull and boring I think I 've got ta fart ! |