Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | About one hundred million years ago , for reasons that we do not understand , the ammonite dynasty began to dwindle . |
| 2 | We can all still bring leather in from our friends in Australia but for reasons that I do n't wholly understand , this is very much dearer than the local er supplies available and for the time being it 's not of interest to the saddlery-makers in Walsall . |
| 3 | Once only was I able to talk to Hayward de vive voix , and that was at the Institute of Contemporary Arts , when I referred again to the housekeeper problem ; but in the end , for reasons that I do not know , our Greek candidate , who might have been an admirable choice , was not summoned for interview . |
| 4 | can I just ask him one question about it , erm , I 'm not an accountant and you probably , I 'm sure you know a lot more about accounts than I do , but in fact if you look at the revenue accounts for the year we 're talking about ended August nineteen ninety two at page a hundred and thirty two , do you see that ? |
| 5 | A second example of the importance of giving opportunities to other people comes from the type of head who , in pursuing the argument that good management of a school should lead to good learning by the child , watches pupils for signs that they do in some way match hopes about independence of mind , wholeness and honesty . |
| 6 | The second number is for emergencies and I do mean emergencies , not running low on Kleenex . |
| 7 | The behaviour of some animal rights supporters , who have sometimes appeared to care more for animals than they do for men and women , has also not commended their cause . |
| 8 | Yes I know , you can get somebody else to do that , be there for months and they do n't turn up at once , that was erm , I did n't realize they had to turn up at once , so I was letting them throw whenever they wanted |
| 9 | It is a well known fact that designers plant a line of bollards when they do not know what to do . |
| 10 | the range of products that we do . |
| 11 | Many of them have a wider spread of activities than we do , making things like glass containers , aluminium cans or paper and board products . |
| 12 | There will be a guarantee of £48,750 from public funds to the initiators of buy-outs if they do not succeed . |
| 13 | I eat plenty of vegetables and I do n't like chocolate . ’ |
| 14 | The thing is there 's millions of books and you do n't see all that many people |
| 15 | There are various ways of improving the lot of hens but we do need to ask the hens themselves rather than make up their minds for them . |
| 16 | Says lots of words that I do n't use . |
| 17 | I believe this to be true in the case of computers where they do lag behind the West : I do not believe it in the case of radar . |
| 18 | The Japanese authorities have an interest in playing down the importance of earthquakes but I do n't . |
| 19 | ‘ Early statements of the model ( e.g. , Marslen-Wilson & Welsh ( 1978 ) ) assert that candidates drop out of the pool of word-candidates when they do not fit the specifications of context , in the same way as when they do not fit the accumulating sensory input . |
| 20 | Well I 've got lots of acquaintances but I do n't know that I necessarily want to put them on the erm |
| 21 | We use the same principle for getting money out of companies as we do getting products into them . |
| 22 | It could lead to unjustifiable situations resulting in a great number of injustices and I do not think we should continue with it . … |
| 23 | ‘ Sure children get all sorts of crazy ideas , all sorts of ideas so they do . ’ |
| 24 | Then you get another lot with another lot of ideas and they do it their way , and nobody likes that either . |
| 25 | ‘ When people are faced with lots of troubles and they do n't know what to do , there 's always someone ready to say anything , just to get some power , ’ said Grimma . |
| 26 | it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop . |
| 27 | Of course it became quite a game searching for pairs of initials but I do n't remember finding Alfred 's once . ’ |
| 28 | You addressed a visible problem but bear in mind that awful things can happen in the clearest of ponds if you do not use a test kit on a regular basis . |
| 29 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 30 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |