Example sentences of "they do [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what they do well is more damaging than what they do badly . |
| 2 | What they do then is scale a cliff , clambering from one ledge to another until they 're perched on one so high and narrow that the leopard ca n't follow . |
| 3 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
| 4 | The idea that they do so is one of the most persistent slimming myths of all . |
| 5 | Part of the reason they do so is cultural and has to do with the elective affinity of their habituses with postmodern culture . |
| 6 | Thus , although people do change their behaviour , habits , beliefs and lifestyles , why they do so is unclear . |
| 7 | The reality is that teachers do feel good about what they are doing , but that the occasions on which they do so are often conspicuous more by their rarity than their regularity . |
| 8 | While Cox and Dyson share in the opposition to Scrutiny 's " negative anti-contemporary " attitudes , the grounds on which they do so are very different from those put forward by Hough , Falck , and other critics of Leavisism . |
| 9 | You have to admire the ones with the guts to go it alone and make something of their lives when times are hard , even if the ways they do so are not strictly legal . |