Example sentences of "do [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although at one point Lear is willing to return to Goneril , since she seems to be allowing him fifty knights , Regan only twenty-five , so that ‘ Thy fifty yet doth double five-and-twenty , /And thou art twice her love ’ ( II.iv.260ff. ) — a quantification of love that would be comic were its effects not so awful — Lear becomes enraged by the two of them , and prefers ‘ To wage against the enmity o ’ th' air' than live with them . |
| 2 | Doth prowl , and round and round from door to door |
| 3 | Doth earn their money by taking of hard pains . ’ |
| 4 | Unlike Descartes , who felt the need to prove their existence , and Malebranche , who was certain he could not , Locke simply had no doubt that material things existed and caused our ideas : ‘ The actual receiving of ideas from without … makes us know , that something doth exist at that time without us , which causes that idea in us . ’ |
| 5 | In 87 ( ‘ Farewell — Thou art too dear for my possessing ’ ) the Friend 's inconstancy and betrayal are excused as a simple error of judgement : Here , though , Shakespeare is not content to let the irony stand , for the couplet , with its sarcastic double-rhyme , dispels both illusion and self-deception : ‘ Thus have I had thee as a dream doth flatter — /In sleep a king , but waking no such matter . ’ |
| 6 | vii , ‘ One woe doth tread upon another 's heel ’ , DS 61 . |
| 7 | Approach , ye sons of Wisdom , and rejoice : let us now rejoice together ; for the reign of death is finished and the son doth rule ; he is invested in the scarlet garment , and the purple is put on . |
| 8 | Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven ; |
| 9 | The poet 's eyes ( according to Shakespeare 's Theseus ) " in a fine frenzy rolling , doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven " . |
| 10 | Some woman doth fall out bitterly with her neighbour ; there followeth some great hurt … . |
| 11 | And Mary said , ‘ My soul doth magnify the Lord , and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour . |
| 12 | You may do in the dark what the day doth forbid ; |
| 13 | Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things , Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits , To practise more than heavenly power permits . |
| 14 | ‘ Sayeth the protector — and pray God he may be a protector ! — that the king doth lack a playfellow ? ’ |
| 15 | They consume , destroy , and devour whole fields , houses and cities For look in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest and dearest wool , there noblemen and gentlemen , yea and certain abbots … leave no ground for tillage . |
| 16 | Doth not the good father in short time , either by his coughing or spitting or testiness … become troublesome either to his own son or to his nice daughter-in-law , with continuing so long chargeable and so much waited-on , or to the children , with taking up their room at the fire or at the table , or to the servants , while his slow eating doth scant their reversions ? |
| 17 | One description of the typical witch declares as highly suspect ‘ women which be commonly old , lame , blear-eied , pale , fowle and full of wrinkles ; poore , sullen , superstitious , and papists ; or such as knowe no religion : in whose drousie minds the divell doth goten a fine seat ’ . |
| 18 | And may at last my weary age find out the peaceful hermitage , the hairy gown and mossy sill where I may sit and rightly spell of every star that heaven doth show , and every herb that sips the dew , till old experience do attain to something like prophetic strain . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience ! ’ he might say , with Claudius ( Hamlet , II.i.150 ) . |
| 20 | By that sweet ornament which truth doth give ! |
| 21 | The last ten days gradually it has been coming back since the really trough period in late January with the war and the snow , etc. , and in fact this week erm we 're expecting this week to probably do double the level of bookings that we did last week , and that 's on overseas holidays for summer and winter . |
| 22 | And I 'd I do think it 's possible erm with help for people both sides have a partnership to change you know if we take an honest look at ourselves . |
| 23 | If that 's in the question , then do compare and do contrast . |
| 24 | John even goes as far as to boast that The Borrowers is breaking new ground : ‘ In fact , some of the things we can now do make the special effects in Star Wars look prehistoric . ’ |
| 25 | That rarity , an album without a filler — admire every aspect as Owens finger-flicks his way through the Stax-happy , gospel croons on a couple of things Sam Cooke would have loved to wrap his larynx around , and opts for the more brooding approach on the let's do crunch of ‘ Why You Treat Me This Way ? ’ — ‘ Blues Soul ’ is remarkable not only for the performance of its outfront star , but also for that of the Pete Wingfield-led back-up squad , which nary places a quaver in the wrong place , along with Mike Vernon 's knowing production . |
| 26 | I 'll go and do want anything ? |
| 27 | Said , you better do mate ! |
| 28 | To assess the state of organic maturity in the thrust province properly we need do know three main things : the geometry of the thrust sheets including the present thickness of rocks of different ages , the amount of pre-Mesozoic erosion , and past geothermal gradients . |
| 29 | He insisted he had not abdicated , but what should he do know ? *q Before any advice could given , at least by the British the Shah and Soraya flew on to Rome — perhaps because King Faisal was embarrassed by his presence in Baghdad and perhaps because the Shah thought they would be sager and more comfortable in the Italian capital . |
| 30 | What 's he do know ? |