Example sentences of "[vb base] i [vb base] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 it it sort of keeps a sort of continuity in it and I mean I do think when we get to the end of the probationary year you 've sort of really learnt all the areas .
2 I mean I do think there are limitations with er
3 yeah , well I was there the other day and erm the bell went and nobody sort of moved and I thought I think , I know , you know , so I got up and I washed me cup of tea like , you know , they looked at me as if you know oh there 's a keen , but I mean I do think it 's important to do that , because not only that it 's not fair for the
4 I , I , I mean I do think that w what we would have to do is , is if people started making inroads into two via this route , it might mean then we 'd get to the point where it was n't going to cost that much more to enable other scale one people
5 erm I think I mean I do think it 's a stunt and I think stunts are very often not very well thought out , and I think your your definition is actually wrong .
6 I mean I do think that this is we have n't yet , I go back to the claim I made before that in the hundred days since he 's been Prime Minister his concentration has been taken up by the Gulf war , obviously .
7 The , they really convert bibles for doing that is because I 've always done that of er right that 's , that 's out of the way , jump the paperwork , now what about talking about your clubs and that t to sort of close down the call and relax the client for getting into referral mode and I 've always done it tail end on so the introduction to the referral is at the beginning and perhaps looking for them during i is totally unfamiliar , I mean I do note the odd thing as I go through and note them down on the , the but I 'd never been used to actually although we were told referrals how and why that went with it .
8 Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making .
9 I mean I do happen to belong to a group of poets and we set one another subjects regularly .
10 But I mean I do get used to being on my own and then like I mean I say he 's there like the , the other morni he went down his mother 's and he did n't come back till three o'clock so he 's not there constantly all the time .
11 Er check locally for claims of environmentally or sustainable tropical hardwood it 's not really , I mean I do look when I go to all these D I Y places to see what they 've got .
12 or at home and he 's put both his numbers unlikely or not I hope I do see you soon again .
13 As a journalist having a career break I do get itchy fingers and long to turn out something that will look good but not cost the earth .
14 The other side of that is that I think a lot of dons are increasingly concerned at the level of alcohol consumption and the sort of behaviour that can emerge as a result of it , you know I do sense that many of us think it 's a real problem .
15 I mean I … you know I do talk quite openly to my pupils which is a little daring of me because the situation in Cyprus is a little different from here …
16 ‘ Tom , I hate to bother you — you know I do try not to — but could I pop round tonight when I 've got Mother settled ?
17 I know I do have the confidence of the backbenchers to carry on with this particular job as well as the confidence of the leader and the shadow Chancellor .
18 Yes , I suppose I do feel proud of my efforts to help Doctor Who 's production . ’
19 For one thing , I suppose I do regard it as the moment in my career when I truly came of age as a butler .
20 Well , I suppose I do know him fairly well , he 's stayed with us a couple of times .
21 Then , realising how witless that sounded , she fumbled on , ‘ I mean yes , I suppose I do find you attractive . ’
22 Gillian I suppose I do have one worry about Stuart .
23 ‘ After hearing your story , I suppose I do have a chance .
24 Although to someone of your tender years I suppose I do seem quite old and decrepit . ’
25 ‘ I suppose I do need to — ’
26 ‘ I suppose I do understand . ’
27 I think I feel older than my age , and I suppose I do act older in a way .
28 I 'm handy at giving out advice , ’ he glanced at Marc , ‘ but I guess I do need to sort things out myself .
29 ‘ I guess I do see that , ’ Charity said grudgingly .
30 I guess I do have a slight leaning towards comedy , but I find if I do a bunch of comedies , I get anxious to do something dramatic , and the other way round .
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