Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] i do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I can pick out his stuff or say I do n't like the look of that one and he 'll , he 'll chuck it in the back . |
| 2 | Serve the food properly or let me do it . ’ |
| 3 | Brigadier and Mrs. Carter lived in a large house in Brown Street — he was fat , very pompous with a waxed moustache , having exceptionally long spikes ; Major Forbes from Fowlers Hill , who not only looked like but also dressed like King George V — whether by accident or design I do n't know , Mrs. Bowyer , the widow of an Australian Bishop who lived in Fowlers Road was very big and wore outsize hats which accentuated her size and finally the Headmaster , Mr. E.J. Russ . |
| 4 | When he took off on his return flight in a small twin-engined plane , one of the engines failed , and the pilot , whether by accident or design I do n't know , did a swift turn and made an emergency landing back on the airfield , missing the Control Tower by about three feet . |
| 5 | ‘ Back in nineteen forty-four when Claudia was working on her thesis , I understood intellectually ’ — he says the word with a certain fastidiousness — ‘ what she was saying about the Masai , but as a man who knew the country and the natives , or thought I did , I could n't really accept it . |
| 6 | You want to draft out the message , or have me do it ? ’ |
| 7 | Do you think they were faulty or have I done something wrong ? |
| 8 | And what we in fact the the reason we tell people everything on the phone Ron is that there are some things that pen I did have one here , |
| 9 | Rather than let me do it . ’ |
| 10 | Well no nor do I do n't whiz about |
| 11 | I I think , I 've a funny feeling that did adopt it but quite how much that means I do n't understand . |
| 12 | They do n't have a problem at all it does n't seem to er be part of their daily lives er , that said I do have a farmer of my acquaintance , when I say my acquaintance he happens to be my son-in-law . |
| 13 | I can only tell you that had I done that … |
| 14 | And that 's when I felt that I wished I had of went for a career in the trade union or I felt that had I done that , I would have been satisfying something that was there . |
| 15 | On the contrary , he looked at me admiringly , flourished his pen , wrote in the sum , turned the page , signed and asked me to do likewise on Jean-Claude 's account . |
| 16 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 17 | They gave me a line of coke , and asked me to do it for them . |
| 18 | She rung me up and asked me did I want a microwave oven ? |
| 19 | Things have been patched up between us by Lord Coleworthy , who likes me and thinks I do a good job . |
| 20 | I was so shaken up and upset I did not get to say thank you or even see his face , just the helpful hand outstretched to me . |
| 21 | Falstaff as ‘ a masculine decayed cornucopious form of the love goddess ’ is amusing as a paradox , though how the boar can be both Mars and Persephone I do not quite see . |
| 22 | Can you just explain how that would work though 'cos we 're now erm , auditing by job , are n't we , and given I do n't know the audit timetable I ca n't visualise the effect this would have but it seems that one could be making a change 'cos a particular , a job 's been audited and it effects Q P1 , or something one month , and therefore you make changes to it and another job 's audited the second , another month , the second month and Q P1 needs changing again , and it , in terms of keeping our staff with us , it will be quite conf , I think it 's not terribly practical to keep having constant change . |
| 23 | Think it must have been all the cleaning and dusting I did . " |
| 24 | Sergeant-Chef Gibeau leant over , tapped me on the forefinger with a table knife and told me to do them up again . |
| 25 | No , she co come and told me did you ask Emma out ? |
| 26 | She says Mackem and Tackem I du n no but that 's what people say |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm just trying to keep going and hope I do n't break down . ’ |
| 28 | But German-born Sebastian said later : ‘ I certainly did n't want to embarrass her and hope I did n't cause any offence . |
| 29 | What I 'm trying to do is chair a meeting and to prevent what happening what 's just happened when people start jumping up and shouting I do n't think that 's productive ways to chair any meeting or allow that to happen . |
| 30 | I ought to have stopped you in the beginning — I ought to have walloped you good and hard instead of hiding the things and pretending I did n't know anything about it . |