Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Presumably I did hear him right saying that Labour 's spending plans were predicated on assumptions about Labour 's ability to produce economic growth .
2 It was an absolute brute but eventually I did manage to dig it all out .
3 E eventually I did get a job .
4 Yes , eventually I did put it down to your job , worried about Steve being so long away and anxious to tie up the contract , but there was a worse fear — that you just did n't love me enough to want to stay with me . ’
5 Suddenly I let go .
6 Only I do want effect of possibility of getting lost .
7 Only I do want to learn .
8 Only I do find monosyllables wearing , dear ! ’
9 ‘ Nothing , nothing , ’ said Lili , ‘ only I do hate weddings .
10 Those reductions were those identified in paragraph three and perhaps I do need to point out in fact that according to the report in Policy and Resources Committee , the use of carry forwards from the registration service of twenty thousand pounds in fact needs to be replicated across all three years .
11 Perhaps you 're right , perhaps I do interfere .
12 Perhaps I do know your potential , through the work we 've been doing , but you 're not a computer : you have autonomy .
13 Or perhaps I did diagnose it but I 've forgotten .
14 Perhaps I did underestimate your intelligence . ’
15 Except that I thought you 'd understand — and perhaps I did think that you had a right to know why I feel the way I do about … about anything permanent . ’
16 ‘ I think perhaps I did scratch him . ’
17 Perhaps I did jump , but on the evidence I was justified .
18 Perhaps I did have a few lucky breaks as an investigator , now and then — and some useful assistance , here and there .
19 So I let go of the pendant , gathered myself , and looked around .
20 So I do want you to try to build up as many of those as you can .
21 So I do feel for the chump who , late for a smart dinner party , dashes into the local off-licence and forks out £50 for a bottle of Mouton Rothschild 1988 .
22 There 's no maintenance , no rates , no insurances , they 're in , they 're in a sort of bad s or getting into a bad state , so I do feel that we should try and put some priorities behind this erm , particular business link in Craven Arms .
23 but then I have circulation problems so I do feel the cold .
24 Gentlemen , I , I , I do believe , fellow councillors , what we 've done now is asked the solicitor to , to take the matter in hand , and so I do think until we 've got advice from him , it would be for us to actually recommend any other
25 If you go to see this football club to watch the football match , you are not allowed to park on the grass verge outside because the police do n't let you but if you go to a car boot sale at the football club the next day the cars , the grass verge is littered with cars cos it 's Sunday presumably and the police are not allowed to enforce on it so I do think that some of the traffic problems maybe need to be more carefully reinforced to stop this , you know , to stop the dealers you 're not going tyo these places but you know I think you do need to , you do need to , to regulate them but please , you know , do n't let's push them out altogether .
26 So I do think that the , I do n't think it actually does necessarily come down to glossy brochures , but I think it is a management attitude erm , in terms of mark developing a very much more pro-active marketing approach to going out and competing aggressively in the market place for the contracts .
27 So I do think it 's an industry which is very dangerous now and which could well get out of hand .
28 I do n't know if any of you saw very recently , the horrific programme which was on television dealing with this problem in some of the London boroughs and god forbid if we ever reach that stage erm because it is quite horrific so I do think that although we have a problem , our problem is mainly confined to the weekend .
29 So I do think the development at that level has something pretty profound to say .
30 So I do tend to write everything in pencil .
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