Example sentences of "children [adv] do [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 I mean before they came to the centre I think people felt Save The Children only did work in countries abroad .
2 Adults forget that most children really do want to grow up , if only to exact their own small revenges .
3 Consequently , if young children really do lack the ability to handle explanations , their capacity to benefit from the early years of schooling will be severely restricted .
4 Hence , although the Council can claim that their guidance documents have contained some reference to equal opportunities and that guidelines from the Secretary of State have included reference to issues of gender and the needs of ethnic minority children there does appear , however , in the words of Shah ( 1990:315 ) to be no consensus .
5 Nolan and Tucker ( 1981 ) , in writing for parents of deaf children , give no indication of the degree of language difficulty deaf children actually do face .
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