Example sentences of "they do [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus we can see how the social policies of Italian Fascism failed to meat its objective of creating a classless society enough they did change one nature of the state and politics . |
| 2 | As these young people were already disturbed these factors can not be claimed to have predated disturbed behaviour , but they did exist prior to the appearance of psychotic-like disorders . |
| 3 | They did n't preach to her , but they did love each other . |
| 4 | They therefore recommended no structural or behavioural changes , though they did feel that continued monitoring of the industry by the OFT was necessary . |
| 5 | However , they did observe each other 's work . |
| 6 | Er , I ca n't say that I , I , I , I know they did do that yes , but I ca n't say that it er it interfered with us much and I ca n't er , ev ever think of anybody , you know wh sort of talking about it like in any respect . |
| 7 | She said so I said , so they did do that ? |
| 8 | It was primarily an amateur place , but they did do three professional productions a year , mostly of plays on the school curriculum like The Royal Hunt of the Sun . |
| 9 | Although they were not avowedly political , they did make political pronouncements and had a ‘ privilege of approaching the Throne ’ which , by the end of the nineteenth century , had lapsed through disuse . |
| 10 | When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation . |
| 11 | Out there in peaceful Vancouver , going about our ordinary daily tasks , even though they did make sizeable contributions to the war effort , there were some of us who felt we were not doing enough , and some of us who wanted to get into ‘ the action ’ . |
| 12 | However , they did make important contributions to the education of local residents involved in the problems of vandalism , lack of recreational facilities and housing . |
| 13 | They looked like anatomies of death , they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves , they did eat dead carrions , happy where they could find them , yea , and one another soon after , insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves , and if they found a plot of water cress or shamrocks , there they flocked as to a feast for the time , yet not able long to continue therewithal , that in short space there were none almost left , and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast . |
| 14 | The fee for performing at Yeovilton was not high but they did offer free fuel . |
| 15 | they did offer some postcards yesterday . |
| 16 | They did exercise great influence . |
| 17 | Then they did hold all the cards . ’ |
| 18 | One leading poverty campaigner says : ‘ With the previous reviews at least they did consult outside bodies . |
| 19 | As you can imagine , his pet dragons did not grow very large , but they did grow lazy and fat and tame . |
| 20 | There was no sign of any sheep , but they did notice some strange-looking footprints in the earth by the house . |
| 21 | v. Ratcliffe the plaintiffs refused to admit coloured persons to their ballroom but they did allow coloured musicians to play in the orchestra . |
| 22 | Spending chiefs decided to delay their decision until then , although they did discuss more council spending as well as less . |
| 23 | This booklet was distributed just before met , so in fact er , paragraph two does say at the moment that in our new recommended programme there is n't , well in fact they did agree those recommendations . |
| 24 | Surely they did have one last year , did n't they their outing . |
| 25 | Mind you , they did have all the satellite and all that did n't we ? |
| 26 | Actually , they did have six for fifty nine P in Iceland , but the date was up on them like , Sunday , and I thought , I wo n't get through all the them . |
| 27 | It was easy for Draper and White to mock the church fathers for their naiveté on matters of natural philosophy , forgetting that they did have higher concerns — forgetting , too , that their naiveté often reflected the pagan wisdom of their day . |
| 28 | No , you picked up i I mean , I put that she recognized the gap between you know , the Russian ally to the Ger , I presume they did have Russian ally . |
| 29 | Taxes on wealth at death have declined in effectiveness , but they did have some impact ; just as important were crashes in land prices in the 1930s and liquidation of foreign investment to finance war . |
| 30 | But although earlier events can not be said to have caused the crisis , they did have some bearing on how it developed . |