Example sentences of "they do be " in BNC.
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| 1 | United Airlines and American Airlines I 've been told are n't really all that good to fly with , mate of ours went up to the airport to pick his parents up , they just got back from a holiday in and er they flew and a , on a seven hour journey , where ever it was they come from , they did n't have any food , no food , nothing , what they done is they , they , they 'd taken a container off , but they had n't put a new one on . |
| 2 | If you trust somebody okay you 're quite open to them , they 're quite open to you if you co-operate you 're flexible , you 're being flexible and you like to work together and what happens is is if you 've got low trust and low co-operation with somebody well what you 've got is really everybody both people or everybody involved being defensive constantly being def defensive , if you do n't trust somebody and you know you 're not co-operative you 're constantly looking over your back , what are they doing are they doing that 's gon na mess something up you know what are they trying to do now . |
| 3 | As it was , I believe my judgement proved quite sound on the question of timing ; the fact that things turned out as they did is entirely attributable to an error of judgement in another direction altogether . |
| 4 | To understand why Draper and White wrote as they did is not of itself sufficient to impugn their conclusions . |
| 5 | I think in America what they did is actually people went out on patrol there . |
| 6 | What they did is took half and used it to reduce their contributions and it was a large reduction , it was a reduction from twelve to currently five per cent . |
| 7 | So why they did it Well why they did it is clear er to make slightly bigger hall , but why they took the risk they did is not so clear . |
| 8 | Ah but no what they did is somebody else marks them while the the next round was going on for |
| 9 | I thought , would n't it be good though if they , if what they did is on that day we went they pick everyone who wanted like the jobs yeah |
| 10 | Siberia for me , but all they did was put me on a plane heading for Berlin . |
| 11 | She had to pay for the lavish colour brochure ( the details of which contained many mistakes ) , she provided the historical background and ran her feet off showing people over : all they did was make appointments ( underpaid girls did that ) and yet she had to pay them thousands . |
| 12 | All they did was sit watching Polish films on Channel 4 till I came in . |
| 13 | Almost t' last good turn they did was buildin' them steppin'-stones acrost t' river . |
| 14 | That the project 's objectives took the form they did was partly due to the particular interests of those involved and partly to a knowledge of other experimental projects operating at that time . |
| 15 | In fact this sweeping assertion seems rather too broad : what they did was impose a single procedural regime . |
| 16 | It was a tradition that avoided any real contemplation of the root causes of German unease ; their preference for ‘ action ’ , rested secure in the knowledge that everything they did was for the good of the nation , sanctioned by law and sanctioned by the German people . |
| 17 | Neither their range nor their alignment being of more than average accuracy , the damage they did was haphazard but promising . |
| 18 | I 've always been a huge fan of the whole Memphis sound — as I guess everybody has figured by now ! — but the thing about the Stax band was that everything they did was totally minimal , but it slotted together to make something really strong . |
| 19 | ‘ What happened was , the track was very heavy and I guess Michael wanted to go more toward a ballad direction , so what they did was sell the song to Cher and she sang on it . |
| 20 | All that they did was make the room slightly wobbly . |
| 21 | They were not to be questioned : what they did was supply the pillars for the system . |
| 22 | What they did was to provide an opportunity to debate these issues , at the same time giving support to teachers . |
| 23 | Or they did was b buy them from the school canteen where they were still thirty ! |
| 24 | Nothing 's ever been taken ; all they did was rearrange the lounge furniture . |
| 25 | It is not surprising therefore , to find Tim Devlin quoting the harassed teacher as saying , ‘ The worst thing they did was to ignore you completely . ’ |
| 26 | That they took on the importance they did was in part the fault of the government . |
| 27 | And we got the union to er all all they did was to help us , was to pay for the text books that we had . |
| 28 | Now all the pretty things sat around in the present , and all they did was make her regret the past . |
| 29 | What they did was to lend Y20 billion , £1.08 billion ( yes , billion not million ) to a Ms Onoue , who used seances for investment advice . |
| 30 | Mind , it took about eight weeks to achieve that desirable state , and all they did was to give me some tablets , good food , rest and lots of kindness . |