Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] they do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm w I mean where they do n't work when somebody offers code and they do n't work , there 's not a lot you can do other than sort of make some informed guesses as to what might be going wrong . |
| 2 | Methods of measuring cost will be developed where they do not already exist , and will be applied to scheme data . |
| 3 | They 've got to keep the passengers occupied so they do n't start worrying about how the plane manages to stay up in the air . ’ |
| 4 | Maybe plants should be designed so they do n't need to be shut down . |
| 5 | As for movies which might use the old gothic mechanisms to haunt the imagination in more complex ways , to plunge you into the real nightmare of history , in the politically and morally conservative world of modern Hollywood it looks like they do n't stand a ghost of a chance |
| 6 | If someone does n't say anything you do n't know if they do n't know what 's happened , if they do n't know what to say or just do n't care . |
| 7 | I do n't know if they do them on video of old age people |
| 8 | Yeah , quite often they do do n't , well they used to I do n't know if they do . |
| 9 | I do n't know if they do the same over here |
| 10 | I I do n't know if they do them in Woolworths . |
| 11 | Men-at-arms … four of them … better if they do n't see you . |
| 12 | Some people worry that learners will object if they do n't see the whole programme . |
| 13 | She also left a diary with names of clients , and police say if they do n't come forward voluntarily , they 'll be visited at home . |
| 14 | Policy-makers can not maximize because they do not have the requisite information ; instead they satisfice , that is , choose a course of action which is good enough to meet their desires . |
| 15 | " We do n't know because they do n't tell us . |
| 16 | If if it 's go , well yo , we do n't know because they do n't , they have n't put out exactly when it is , whether it |
| 17 | They are n't trading because they do n't receive income . |
| 18 | I do n't know whether they do or they do n't . |
| 19 | You used to buy the I do n't know whether they do that or not now . |
| 20 | I do n't know whether they do that . |
| 21 | Anthropologists , following Evans-Pritchard 's lead , have reacted against this way of seeing primitive , or non-literate , peoples , and maintained that they do not act as they do for the same reasons that neurotics act in Western society . |
| 22 | Some students with pre-RAF flight training can skip a level and go directly to the Tucano , leaping as they do so into a world far distant from general aviation . |
| 23 | Moncur conceded that his team could be better organised when they do not have the ball , but he should be congratulated for encouraging their skills . |
| 24 | There 's lots of talking and laughing when they do that — they look like they 've had a real good time . |
| 25 | He maintains that group members will soon accept the non-criminal character of this new member of their group , and they will behave as they do when he is not among them ( Polsky 1967 ) . |
| 26 | It interknits with that world of chances and mischances , improbable or absurd or grotesque or just neutrally happening as they do happen , which we meet everywhere in later Dostoevsky and specially in The Possessed . |
| 27 | We have looked at the devices which create formal links between sentences ; at pragmatic interpretations which link literal meaning to function and social meaning ; at the existence of hierarchical structures in particular discourse types ; and finally at the conversational mechanisms which enable people to construct informal discourse together and make sense of what is happening as they do so . |
| 28 | In the case of the letter and the drawer , the signs fail in their indexical function because , appearing as they do in an isolated expression , they simply direct us into a void . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , it is accepted that , appearing as they do in a penal statute , they fall to be construed narrowly rather than widely . |
| 30 | Modern school buildings make as much use as possible of natural light , incorporating as they do large windows . |