Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [conj] [pron] do " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | I could n't , I , I would , if , if , if the company were n't so refined I would say other things about them but I do n't give a hoot . |
2 | Like Spike Milligan , his jokes are very hard to explain — it 's difficult to say what exactly is funny about them and they do n't read well if you write them down . |
3 | people keep telling me about them and I do n't seem to write them down , I probably |
4 | They think we should breed lambs off them and we do n't do that because they are too young to stand the environment , ’ Mr Hartley said . |
5 | ‘ It 'll be the press gang for thee if we do n't run off , and God knows what 's for me without thee . ’ |
6 | ‘ You know next to nothing about me and you do n't know my father at all , yet you have the nerve to say such things ! |
7 | " I know you do n't feel about me as I do about you , but that does n't matter . " |
8 | Huh , you have more sympathy for them than I do . |
9 | ‘ Councils are supposed to provide sites for them but they do n't , ’ I protested , feeling a sudden sympathy for an oppressed minority . |
10 | I do n't know how long it was that things had been going badly for them but I do know there were problems . |
11 | This apparently is the system which works in the family : ‘ He does favours for them and they do favours back ’ ( Pahl R.E. , 1984 , p. 340 ) . |
12 | Users have to ensure that the software works for them and they do not end up working for the software . |
13 | They do n't set their own terms about what they expect for a good quality of life , so other people do it for them and we do a bad job of it . ’ |
14 | She comes with the reluctant insouciance that says , ‘ You may have paid for me but you do n't own me . ’ |
15 | He never cared for me nor I do n't care for him . |
16 | That happens to be all right for me because I do not have to commute regularly but it could be a consideration . |
17 | It did n't er it is a difficult for me because I do n't have the figures er but er Mr er my assistant who er er did do the detailed work , er tells me that it did n't provide as much traffic relief to the A sixty one as did a western relief . |
18 | I 'm glad Durham seem pleased with the way it worked out , but it will have been a waste of time for me if I do n't do well in Sri Lanka and in the home series against West Indies . |
19 | ‘ She 'll look for me if I do n't . |
20 | I shout after him but I do n't follow him . |
21 | There are parts of me that I do n't like … |
22 | The airmail letters which he exchanges with his liberal friends in England tell a worse story of them than they do of him , and hark back in fine style to that golden time when such friends used to kneel in London mosques with Michael X and other celebrities , squinting up at the Heavyweight Champion of the World 's effulgent arse . |
23 | Chocolates , but he eats more of them than I do . |
24 | Erm and you see people frequently charging across the middle or even to the right-hand side of them because they do n't believe that you know that that they have to you know er be observed and gone round and erm whatever . |
25 | Unless you want to intimidate the people you are seeing ( and you will get a less truthful picture of them if you do ) then consider conducting the interview in two fairly comfortable chairs placed at angles next to each other . |
26 | But that , that causes its own problems because erm , you know , do you just become one of them or what do you do , and |
27 | and I buy four of them and they do her a week and when they 're gone that 's it , she 's got ta wait until I go shopping again . |
28 | two things of them and I do n't know what they are . |
29 | You , I 'll bring up some of my eggs , you can have some of them cos I do n't really like , I only like chocolate bars I do n't like chocolate . |
30 | I 'll pull that long hair of yours if you do n't obey me at once ! ’ |