Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two symbols are therefore used , S indicating a specialist technical contribution and E identifying the person responsible for seeing that they do get together . |
| 2 | This last point is worth amplifying as it does affect the poetry . |
| 3 | I found , after experimenting that I did not need any glycerine at all as I managed to get the colour to work well with just a smudge from the wet brush . |
| 4 | Because it said on the packet you 'll plant them immediately after buying and we do n't know when Aunty Gwen bought them and it might rain tomorrow as well , I think I ought to put them in while it 's fine , now |
| 5 | Lucker falls asleep after commenting that he does n't want to see how mini-cab drivers supplement their incomes . |
| 6 | This usually all works well with a large one-off competition , but if you have organised a series of regional newspaper competitions , for example , you will need to have a foolproof system to ensure that winners receive their prizes shortly after winning and you do not have irate editors ringing up saying that their readers are growing angry at the lack of delivery . |
| 7 | Indeed , in 1781 the philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote a monumental and very obscure work , The Critique of Pure Reason , in which he concluded that there were equally valid arguments both for believing that the universe had a beginning and for believing that it did not . |
| 8 | Let's say your friend misinterpreted your motive for acting as you did . |
| 9 | But he can rarely know whether or not the policeman has good grounds for acting as he does , and in so far as there is a conflict between the citizen and the policeman , the reasonable suspicions of the policeman must take priority . |
| 10 | Neither judge could be faulted for acting as he did , Lord Lane added . |
| 11 | you get out of singing that you do n't get anywhere else . |
| 12 | The photograph would , Rose believed , be a tactful way of hinting that she did n't intend being around so much . |
| 13 | If your camcorder is a two-speed machine , it will have an SP/LP selector switch which you should get into the habit of checking before you do any important recording . |
| 14 | In Shah 's case Lord Scarman said , ‘ All that is necessary is that the purpose of living where one does [ eg , for education , employment , health , family or merely love of the place ] has a sufficient degree of continuity to be properly described as settled ’ . |
| 15 | May we learn to face up to our problems and try to sort them out instead of pretending that they do n't exist or trying to run away from them . |
| 16 | He had never before been accused of stealing and it did not sit well with him . |
| 17 | Chairman John Silk also stood down , with successor Trevor Summers saying : ‘ If Bobby Gould is honest he knew he had to win something this season because he did n't have a hope of staying if he did n't . ’ |
| 18 | In my retelling of the Divine Drama I have made use of primitive mythological ways of speaking because I do not believe that we have a better language that is available to us when it comes to understanding God 's revelation as story — as the great epic of salvation . |
| 19 | Marie 's face is real white and she 's still sort of staring like she do n't know what 's going on . |
| 20 | As described by one character , this catch-all phrase is ‘ a short way of saying that they do n't claim to find either the ultimate cause or the ultimate cure , but they do know exactly how it functions , and can prescribe accordingly ’ ( 149/151 ) . |
| 21 | Some authorities made a point of saying that they did not have a training programme because they depended on courses that presented themselves , e.g. : ‘ We always hope to send staff on courses as they are advertised ’ . |
| 22 | One major difference in the auction business between America and Britain is the amount of travelling that one does : in one week one may do an ‘ appraisal day ’ ( the equivalent of the British Antiques Road Show ) in Pennsylvania and then go on to look at a dinner service in Baltimore . |
| 23 | there are ways of doing that they do n't do that , you know there 's a thing I |
| 24 | If she does not , they will have the consolation of knowing that they did all and more than could have been expected of those unfamiliar with the assistance which the court can give in such situations . |
| 25 | ‘ Teach us , Good Lord , to give and not to count the cost , to fight and not to heed the wounds , to toil and not to seek for rest , to labour and to ask for no reward , save that of knowing that we do Thy will . ’ |
| 26 | We have acquired the habit of assuming that they do n't know what they want , do n't want to decide anything about their own lives and have nothing to contribute . |
| 27 | Let us pay Lord Taylor the courtesy of assuming that he does not believe the social circle of the average judge to be a complete guide to right thinking . |
| 28 | It was my father , who had come out of hiding because he did n't want to be parted from us . |
| 29 | Because of the many hours of sitting that we do , we lose the ability to squat or even the ability to sit down without falling down . |
| 30 | Though his skin was pale , he had the lips and round face of a black African , and that African quality of showing that one does not need a reason to be happy . |