Example sentences of "[adv] do [pers pn] [vb infin] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I live in Putney , so do you fancy a drink or a meal , or something ? |
| 2 | So do you have a lot of friends in B M K , you know over the years have you made any firm pals ? |
| 3 | Erm so do you have a family ? |
| 4 | Not only do they need a lot of power , they need a lot of patience . |
| 5 | That means not only do I get a glass of beer and a scone by the fire , and the chance to pat one of their huge pack of gorgeous shiny dogs , but if I ask politely and do n't step on the Jack Russell , I also get permission to bring my car along the private road . |
| 6 | SINCE we are in the middle of the International Coffee Organisation meeting -how do they pass a week without a visible result ? — I thought it appropriate to think about tea . |
| 7 | No sooner do they see a beauty and fix their hearts upon her than they see another still more beautiful , and the first one no longer appeals to them . |
| 8 | No sooner do you suggest a trad/rap crossover record be released than Brendan Shine comes out with the biggest load of crap to fall on this earth since Bros recorded their limited edition live L.P. ‘ Live From Mars ’ . |
| 9 | Only once do I allow a man to stay the night , and I make him sleep upstairs . |
| 10 | I mean like do you take a lot of stuff every time you go to the van ? |
| 11 | Now do you want a bit of cake Ivy ? |
| 12 | I 'll give you a dish , yeah I know , I know you 're not to open them but I 'm just making sure that you know that they 're yours , now do you want a dish or not ? |
| 13 | How often do we see a scene on television where , when some help is about to be given to a seriously ill person , the family members present are asked to wait outside . |
| 14 | How often do you dump a file on someone 's desk with a Post-it note on it saying ‘ do this ’ and get it back — okay — competently done but with no knowledge how it might have disrupted that person 's other work or even if they liked doing it enough to want to do more ? |
| 15 | How often do you have a use for a parcel carrier ? |
| 16 | Well do you do a round ? |
| 17 | So if you learn the words this way thinking well do I know a word that 's a bit like it and could I add a bit onto the end that 's another way another good way of learning cos you do n't have to learn class and classical and classic you just sort of learn one of them . |
| 18 | ‘ And how fast do you think a hedgehog 's heart beats ? ’ |
| 19 | Sometimes , but only very rarely do I touch a piece of bliss when I grope in the dark . |
| 20 | Rarely do I see a parent who has decided to buy a book as a present . |
| 21 | Right do you want a drink ? |
| 22 | I 've not seen that , right do you want a cup of tea ? |
| 23 | ( Do you concentrate on a large or small area of the brain ; if the latter , which one , if the site of the clock has not been established beyond all doubt ? ) ( a ) Do you follow one person only throughout your observation time(s) or choose , instead , a single place to see which of the family , if any , are there ? ( b ) If you choose to observe a single place , then do you study a place that is large or small , say , the front garden , a single- room , or the exit at the end of the drive ? ( c ) If it is a single room , which one ? |
| 24 | How do they get a things about fifty foot tall then ? |
| 25 | OK ; the next issue is : how do we fix a price ? |
| 26 | How do we discover a person 's personality ? |
| 27 | How do we create a dragon ? |
| 28 | Where and how do we draw a line between ontological existents and fictions ? |
| 29 | Of course Red Indian ( Native American ) women have often been kissed in movies by cowboys and soldiers , but how do we think a six-foot-three-inch Masai , almost naked , kissing a French woman will play ? |
| 30 | The access problem : how do we establish a correspondence between elements at different levels of description ? ( i.e. between a sequence of phonemes or syllables , and a word ) . |