Example sentences of "[conj] do i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Or do I have that wrong as well ? ’ |
| 32 | Is that quite clear , or do I have to spell it out ? ’ |
| 33 | ‘ Now will you behave , ’ he murmured quietly , ‘ or do I have to teach you a lesson ? ’ |
| 34 | ‘ You want to come quietly , or do I have to get tough ? ’ |
| 35 | So are you going to tell me or do I have to force it out of you ? ’ |
| 36 | ‘ Look , Cand , are you going to tell me what the heck you 're talking about , or do I have to play riddle-me-ree for the next few hours ? ’ |
| 37 | Nor do I feel compelled to depart from that conclusion by the fact that , under the present practice , a local authority which acts as a relator in a relator action is required to give an undertaking in damages even though it is so proceeding in order to enforce the law in the public interest . |
| 38 | Nor do I feel like setting myself up as an Aunt Sally just waiting for all those girls to throw themselves at me in the attempt to knock me off my perch ! ’ |
| 39 | Unfortunately we have no vacancies at present nor do I anticipate any in the near future . |
| 40 | Unfortunately we have no trainee vacancies at present , nor do I anticipate any in the near future . |
| 41 | Nor do I care for gossip . |
| 42 | I 'm not qualified to judge whether the grief his mother felt on the death of his elder brother had an adverse effect on Mr Barrie 's emotional development , nor do I care one way or the other . |
| 43 | Nor do I care very much . ’ |
| 44 | By Christ and Leonard I shall love no failing clerk nor do I care to receive a clerk within the house nor on the floor ; let him keep his arse outside the door ! |
| 45 | Nor do I expect an angler to recognise every bite he feels the first time he tries touch legering . |
| 46 | Nor do I expect you to believe me because my bearing is sincere and my words plausible . |
| 47 | Well no nor do I do n't whiz about |
| 48 | I do not answer , nor do I open my eyes , but I am stirred by the relentless bleep and static of the answerphone ; words , artificial like a megaphone , filtering through . |
| 49 | Nor do I long to be whipped , Obersturmfuhrer . ‘ |
| 50 | Nor do I mean people who are generally in favour of human happiness , welfare , dignity and rights , as indeed I am myself . |
| 51 | Nor do I mean that it bears the imprint of the time when it arose . |
| 52 | I do n't want it poured over my head from a bucket in a comic that only appeals to the most basic and obvious , nor do I want to read the photo-copied scribblings of an undergrown fifth-former . |
| 53 | ‘ I neither love him , nor do I want to marry him . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ I do n't want you to put on an artificial accent , ’ Mother Francis had warned , ‘ nor do I want you sticking out your little finger when you 're drinking tea . ’ |
| 55 | Nor do I want him to become blase about the violence many of these packages feature — he might get the notion that beating up people in real life is no big thing . |
| 56 | Firstly , I ca n't stay here any more , nor do I want to stay ’ . |
| 57 | I do n't know how you negotiate your other deals , nor do I want to , but you can be sure you 're not going to get another cent out of me . |
| 58 | ‘ Nor do I want to . ’ |
| 59 | Nor do I want to be ruled by the code of Napoleon , against which our ancestors fought in the Napoleonic wars . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ Nor do I want to indulge in a post-mortem — although I suppose it 's an appropriate description , if the thing between us is now dead . ’ |