Example sentences of "[adj] i do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul , for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I 'd disposed of Blyth , and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda , more or less on a whim . |
| 2 | This I do with all my heart . |
| 3 | This I did for five weeks returning to hospital to have my X-rays checked . |
| 4 | This I did at once with a feeling of self-importance which blinded me to the now obvious fact that she was abrogating her responsibilities and allowing them to devolve , once more , upon her eldest daughter . |
| 5 | This I did in what I thought were circumstances of great secrecy . |
| 6 | I offered to braid them for him ; and he paid me five shillings for half a dozen I did for him . ’ |
| 7 | She helped me as well and when I saw you were ill I did for you what she would have wanted me to do . ’ |
| 8 | BELVILLE : Has she told you what I did to her , and all I did to her ? |
| 9 | ‘ After all I did for you ! |
| 10 | ‘ Well I like that … that 's rich that is after all I do for you . |
| 11 | ‘ lt I do , then that 's all I do for you . ’ |
| 12 | All I do to the Tokais when I get them is put five springs in the back , take the tremolo arm out and tighten all the screws at the bridge and raise the action . |
| 13 | Well my mother was one of the pillars of the Palfrey church and er she er oh I went , my father never used to go , but she used to go and of course I , I used to be an altar server down there when I got a bit older I did for a week or two to the erm do you know anything about an Anglo-Catholic Church I mean where they swing the incense and there is this little boy with the boat ? |