Example sentences of "do [pron] [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ D' you really mean that , old chap ? |
| 2 | D' you still send those terrible cryptograms ? ’ |
| 3 | Conversation lulled for an hour until I was almost asleep , then Mick said , ‘ D' you still feel hungry ? ’ |
| 4 | And er if I can help it I 've got to erm do me best to stop that happening . |
| 5 | When the Central Authority carpeted him for this , he stated that he had done it both to meet statutory obligations and to make faster progress on rural electrification than agreed . |
| 6 | This done it soon became clear that Clairvaux had been no more than a pretext and that the real problems lay elsewhere . |
| 7 | No do n't do it just assume all that stuff , that 's been done |
| 8 | If you like , go back to playing the odds to ensure success — if you need to rely on a unit to do something then send two units ! |
| 9 | It 's when you you tend to say first thing you say is ca n't do that then you think , Oh well we get the we have to do it just playing silly game we get these funny numbers . |
| 10 | He was doing nothing yet appeared purposeful . |
| 11 | Doing nothing only sawing all day . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've got a capacity for doing something really f—ing weird ! ’ |
| 13 | ( I had better say now that readers who identify the I of the Sonnets with Shakespeare 's own personality not only encourage that futility of speculation about the identity of a real-life ‘ Friend ’ and ‘ Dark Lady ’ which has pestered discussions of these poems for so long , and is now in the last stages of senility ; but in so doing they also destroy one of the essential principles of literary criticism in modern times , the independence of the I in lyric poetry , its existence as a persona or mask behind which the poet is free to impersonate any human situation without being identified with each or all of the mutations — often contradictory — taken on by his persona . ) |
| 14 | None of this is to ignore Thompson 's evidence that some among the older Radicals saw that the Bill did nothing immediately to secure political democracy . |
| 15 | Do I already have some suspicion that one day it is going to be removed from the records and scattered , perhaps vanish altogether ? |
| 16 | do I just put general conversation in the evening |
| 17 | I do I always think that . |
| 18 | Marriage , divorce , a new job , redundancy or sudden success may find questions like ‘ am I adequate ? ’ or ‘ do I really deserve this ? ’ rising to the surface . |
| 19 | Do I really enjoy all my exercise ? |
| 20 | Do I really need two airpumps , for the skimmer and the trickle filter , or will one pump do both ? |
| 21 | Doubt is not primarily a question of particular faiths ( Should I believe this one or that one ? ) or even of the strength of faith ( Do I really believe this one or that one ? ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Do I really look nice ? ’ she asked . |
| 23 | Do I ever show such concerted and repetitive frailty ? |
| 24 | Did someone just say that ? |
| 25 | so what I did I just got four packets of their dozens , cos he wo n't have anything else except Bovril |
| 26 | Then it was ‘ Did I always lie still for at least fifteen minutes afterwards ? ’ |
| 27 | Did I really want this young man — oh , not now , this minute , pressed on top of me — but tomorrow , and the days after , breathing down my neck ? |
| 28 | ‘ Are you rejecting me , or did I really make such little impression on you ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Did I really say that ? |
| 30 | Did I really need all this ? |