Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] do [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fans who did turn up gave us tremendous support and I know they 'll be back but it would be nice to have an even bigger crowd roaring us on . ’ |
| 2 | Sun/Star readers were more likely than others to have no preference at all in 1986 ( despite voting in 1987 ) , and at the same time , those Sun/Star readers who did have a preference in 1986 were more likely than others to change it during the next year ( Table 8.16 ) . |
| 3 | The results so far suggest that those informants who described themselves as infrequent and inexperienced readers of SF would not regard this as SF at all ; whereas those informants who did read SF would characterise it as such . |
| 4 | Secondly , and more importantly , speakers who are not familiar with the use of weak forms are likely to have difficulty understanding speakers who do use weak forms ; since practically all native speakers of British English use them , learners of the language need to learn about these weak forms to help them to understand what they hear . |
| 5 | They attribute it to the class differences in staying on at school and they point to the similarity in performance of working-class candidates who do take public examinations with other candidates . |
| 6 | You can tell the kids who do n't smoke from the kids who do smoke , they do have an attitude at that age and it |
| 7 | While in former years parents were encouraged to stay together for the sake of their children , more recently emphasis has been put on the damage done to children by parents who do stay married but are in constant conflict . |
| 8 | When a child gets out of line in assembly and the teacher shouts ‘ Do n't you understand English or are you just stupid ’ , or when Indian parents who do come to speak to teachers are laughed at or rebuffed , children both black and white learn just how Indians are thought of by people who matter . |
| 9 | a paragraph at the end of one of the chapters and , I ca n't remember the exact words but in , what it meant was that for the parents who do restrain the children from what they watch |
| 10 | In general , ramblers and landowners do get one but there is a minority of ramblers who do cause problems , just as there is a minority of landowners who do n't respect the rights of walkers . |
| 11 | For housewives who do receive appreciative comments from husbands , this positive reward is often conditional , and therefore hardly an improvement on a situation in which only failure is referred to : |
| 12 | However every car needs a regular service by trained personnel who do understand its mechanical workings . |
| 13 | Of the Ulster riders who did appear at Donington only Eugene McManus , who was 17th in the 250cc class and Stephen Farmer who was 19th finished . |
| 14 | Happily there were no injuries to those few horses and riders who did part company . |
| 15 | Whilst a little over a third of employers thought there was no difference , those employers who did state a preference were , in almost all cases , more likely to prefer other recruits to young people . |
| 16 | Following the precedent of other studies , but also the dictates of the survey itself ( which showed that most employers who do engage fixed-term contract or agency workers engage only one or two of them ) , we conducted our analysis largely in terms of a comparison of " users " and " non-users " . |
| 17 | Perhaps a more sensitive test would be to examine the writings of puritans who did take an interest in science in seventeenth-century England to see what connections they did make in their schemes for reform . |
| 18 | The Independent has interviewed pressure groups and independent researchers who do work commissioned by various government departments . |
| 19 | For the few people on low incomes who do have credit , paying it off tends to soak up more of their budget than for people with higher incomes . |
| 20 | Some of those universities who do demand a dissertation may not deposit copies with the British Library , and may not even have a copy available for inter-library loan . |
| 21 | But four instances have come to light within the year , through dealers or buyers who did have qualms . |
| 22 | Potential buyers who do know the works well are likely to find these performances ( under the company 's new Music Director , John Pryce-Jones ) decent but unremarkable , though enhanced by the brightly appealing sound . |
| 23 | For the classes who did have enough to bequeath , we have valuable evidence about the patterns of inheritance preferred in the early nineteenth century from a variety of sources , especially a study by Davidoff and Hall ( 1987 ) of 622 wills made in two different areas of England during the period 1780–1850 . |
| 24 | The ghosts who do want to go haunting , do it for all sorts of different reasons . |
| 25 | Hakon has disappeared , although the three earls who do sign are the same and in the same order as in S 963 , while the latter 's eight bishops and four abbots are now six and three respectively . |
| 26 | You know what sort of person you want but how will you choose from the applicants who do apply ? |
| 27 | The reduced number of banks participating in venture capital financing has meant a dramatic reduction in the availability of debt , and gearing levels demanded by the banks who do participate have fallen sharply from 7:1 or 8:1 at the height of the boom to 1:1 or less . |
| 28 | They admit that to withdraw benefit from the woman when the man is not giving her money may cause ‘ distress and hardship ’ but ‘ to continue to pay it would be unfair to the majority ’ ( DHSS/SBC , 1976a , p. 7 ) — ‘ the majority ’ meaning in this case married couples and those cohabiting males who do accept their ‘ responsibility ’ to give money to the women they sleep with . |
| 29 | It is clear some workers and ex-workers who do develop cancer will question whether their work with SSEB/SNL was in any way responsible . |
| 30 | The difficulty and expense of travel makes visiting almost impossible , even by those families who do try to maintain contact with individual patients . |