Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't think so but he did believe the word Raphael contained the name of the traitor . ’ |
| 2 | We instruct without formal RYA courses at Paxos , Porto Heli and Cannigione so that we do n't hinder the flexibility of these holidays too much . |
| 3 | Mrs Fishfinger 's Koi — they eat better than I do … |
| 4 | The Giral government , consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans , was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation . |
| 5 | The second premise is a description of the experimental set-up , including the statement , ‘ This sample of bats is blindfolded so that they do not have the use of their eyes ’ . |
| 6 | But as the directives are binding only if they do not deviate much from right reason and as we should act on them only if they are binding , we always have to go back to fundamentals . |
| 7 | But it will not be contained effectively if we do not deal with the refugee problem immediately . ’ |
| 8 | I laughed and said , ‘ I sleep better than you do . ’ |
| 9 | You 'll know better than I do what that means . ’ |
| 10 | Do they not let the stable lads know so that they do n't have an advantage over picking a winner ? |
| 11 | Meals also have to be modified so that they do not produce a rhythmic input to the body . |
| 12 | It 's fairy story nonsense , the very idea of their existence in these days when people are dying daily because they do n't have enough money to operate one radiator in the house , to me , is immoral . |
| 13 | You could object so that you do n't receive more . |
| 14 | Say so if you do n't . |
| 15 | It can be rescued only if we do not take judicial opinions at face value at all ; we must treat all the judges who worry about problematical statutes and precedents as practising some unmotivated form of deception . |
| 16 | It stopped so that they did n't miss the conversation . |
| 17 | Jobs which do not fulfil this purpose must be reorganised so that they do . |
| 18 | It matters only that it does . |
| 19 | So should a school like this one equip for the realities of unforgiveness of the world outside , or should it be much more generous in the way it shows forgiveness and can a school be organised so that it does actually reflect Christ 's teaching on forgiveness . |
| 20 | It 's the sort of place where the pigeons fly backwards because they do n't want to get muck in their eyes . |
| 21 | The game from that period looks just as it did when the original agreement was concluded — because of the infinite horizon assumption every subgame is identical to the original game — and so if it was in the firms ' interests to negotiate that agreement initially it will be in their interests now to renegotiate that agreement . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not runnin' away like I did the last time . ’ |
| 23 | " Great-grandfather , you must know already that I did all I could to stop Kim taking the gibbon , " he said , whispering aloud in the hope that his fervent words might be audible to his father and grandfather standing a few feet away . |
| 24 | Adopting a Formalist approach to the nineteenth-century realist novel would certainly involve a thorough-going change of mental habit , and the critic would have to work harder than s/he does when reading Joyce to see round the fabula and the realistic motivation ; but this is not to say that it might not produce some interesting results . |
| 25 | In the interval his coach Robert Ellis told Hopper to work harder and he did with a vengeance . |
| 26 | right , I wan na ask you some signs before , before you go onto the your speed limits , I wan na know like when I do , you know when you 've done your speed limits and you stop |
| 27 | ‘ I 've never seen you behave before as you do with him . |
| 28 | I realise now that she did n't have the qualities of insight and gentleness and the warmth she would need to be the companion of a country doctor . ’ |
| 29 | His general point may survive even if we do not share his preferences for physics , or even science . |
| 30 | So , as you can see , there is no need to be discouraged from growing plants for pressing even if you do only have a window box . |