Example sentences of "they do be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they did is took half and used it to reduce their contributions and it was a large reduction , it was a reduction from twelve to currently five per cent . |
| 2 | I here were fans suspended from the ceilings in each of the rooms but in Owen 's view all they did was to move hot air from one place to another and he very rarely switched his on . |
| 3 | Nothing 's ever been taken ; all they did was rearrange the lounge furniture . |
| 4 | Mind , it took about eight weeks to achieve that desirable state , and all they did was to give me some tablets , good food , rest and lots of kindness . |
| 5 | All that they did was make the room slightly wobbly . |
| 6 | Now all the pretty things sat around in the present , and all they did was make her regret the past . |
| 7 | ‘ No , no , what they did was attach a slow fuse to the gunpowder and left it coiled under the bed . ’ |
| 8 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 9 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 10 | It is not surprising therefore , to find Tim Devlin quoting the harassed teacher as saying , ‘ The worst thing they did was to ignore you completely . ’ |
| 11 | Do you remember football wise back in nineteen sixty-six they played against England and all they did was kick our players . |
| 12 | Yeah , the got to actually change the starter motor erm I mean on the A D fifties and the two litre they I would sort of , its only a hundred and fifty cc , but the next biggest thing they did was stopping er , a sixteen hundred so quite a lot of those , but nine times out of ten all they did was another part , so |
| 13 | ‘ What happened was , the track was very heavy and I guess Michael wanted to go more toward a ballad direction , so what they did was sell the song to Cher and she sang on it . |
| 14 | Siberia for me , but all they did was put me on a plane heading for Berlin . |
| 15 | What they did was to lend Y20 billion , £1.08 billion ( yes , billion not million ) to a Ms Onoue , who used seances for investment advice . |
| 16 | Almost t' last good turn they did was buildin' them steppin'-stones acrost t' river . |
| 17 | What they did was to provide an opportunity to debate these issues , at the same time giving support to teachers . |
| 18 | All they did was take photographs and , and send somebody round to try and stop us getting a home here ! |
| 19 | In fact this sweeping assertion seems rather too broad : what they did was impose a single procedural regime . |
| 20 | And we got the union to er all all they did was to help us , was to pay for the text books that we had . |
| 21 | So what they did was introduce statistical techniques whereby not every bullet was inspected , a sample was inspected and great conclusions were drawn from very careful examination of a small number of , of items . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ Many of them were aware of him and the job he does , but the first thing they did was to rush over and ask him for his autograph . ’ |
| 23 | It 's no good preaching sermons to young people about the value of labour if all they do is to guide a piece of metal into a press and tread on a pedal a hundred times a day … |
| 24 | I mean , bugger me , all they do is sit in little Toyota vans all day bouncing around taking pictures of Tommies . ’ |
| 25 | The first thing they do is switch the bloody lights on . |
| 26 | All they do is set up an obstacle course for the surfer . ’ |
| 27 | You see , the way the Copts work is that if they decide on something , like a campaign of trouble-making and agitation , the first thing they do is set up an organization . |
| 28 | Foreign companies with subsidiaries in Britain will be entitled to Alvey largesse , provided the work they do is exploited in Britain and does not end up abroad . |
| 29 | All citizens need a highly concentrated er episode in their lives where all they do is think about what is right in the circumstances and this will give them good practice , good training to being an enlightened voter . |
| 30 | Yeah , so we could , yeah , you know , it 'll , it 'll be a lot better , I mean all they do is grow either that grain or corn |