Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to get them various gigs at the Marquee Club in Wardour Street and the Roundhouse , and some dates at universities throughout the country , but there was n't an awful lot coming in although I did succeed in getting him a TV appearance and the producer , who was a good friend of mine , said , ‘ I 'll not have this guy on my programme with long hair ’ . ’ |
| 2 | And yet , ’ said Philip , shivering as the bleak little wind from Severn ruffled his grey tonsure , ‘ I swear he has received very tolerable usage there , better than I dared expect , and why he keeps such a particular hatred against the lord Isambard is something I can not fathom . |
| 3 | Yeah I know I know it 's got a lot of milk in and I did ask for it for you , but she still give me one like that . |
| 4 | So if I do become slack , and I shall try not to , you will , I know , forgive as you always do . |
| 5 | Well Dorothy got er , some to knit something for Bryony and she actually got too much so if I do run out if I have n't enough to finish this er er vest , T-shirt summer top , whatever it 's called she 'll have some . |
| 6 | I thought it would 've been a bit better but I did enjoy it , I did enjoy it . |
| 7 | I do n't like exercising much but I do swim a lot |
| 8 | I ca n't play one personally but I do have a lady in my band who 's who can , very very good accordion player who assures me she can play a zither as well you see . |
| 9 | It 's done done as well enough but I do prefer a Bernie . |
| 10 | Coming out of the meeting , a lady was heard remarking , ‘ Mr Ramsey spoke very nicely but I do think he is young to be Master of a College ’ ; for she thought that he was the new Master of Magdalene whose name was the same except for the spelling . |
| 11 | ‘ Please try and remember that I did n't create the situation you 're in but I do have more experience of it than you do . |
| 12 | So when I did go it was in secret . |
| 13 | I continued to go off and on although I do have some special memories as a youngster running on to the Hillsborough turf to shake John Giles 's hand after beating Birmingham 3–0 in the Cup semi-final ( 1972 ) . |
| 14 | To me all the cows looked similar — small and black all over although I did recognize that some had longer horns and a few had none at all . |
| 15 | And if there 's no work and if there 's no means by which people can get themselves you know those sorts of basic things but you know I 'm not gon na si I I could n't say that the whole structure is going to ch change becau but I think erm I hope anyway and I do believe really that er I mean I hope that we 're going to stay together as a support group in some sort of form and Yes and there 's no way that we 're not going to support other causes in the way that we 've been supported . |
| 16 | I had come to dread that word — not that I was n't all in favour of efficiency generally but I did feel that there were times when other criteria applied . |
| 17 | How can I set it so that , soon as I do file retrieve , it lists the files from that directory ? |
| 18 | But his face gave me no clue , and he went on : " Would you love me more if I did succeed ? " |
| 19 | Hopefully if I do get it , there 's somebody there , that 's going from Andover |
| 20 | They were n't badly off because I do believe they ran a car and she would wear a lovely fox fur when she was out and about in the dale . |
| 21 | On the other hand , a new training school has been set up where I did find excellent service , friendly and helpful instructors and a range of aircraft rates which are almost unbelievable . |
| 22 | But there was still a problem about the label Education , and also that I did have such a very large chunk of air-time , 15 per cent of the Channel . |
| 23 | After he 's been ridden , he is turned out in the field , because he wo n't eat unless he 's turned out and I do try desperately hard to get four feeds a day into him . |
| 24 | Well , I , I , mean I have been in before and I did say last time we were n't very happy , . |
| 25 | But I say I believe in in one respect alright , she 's got the car she can whip in and out but I do believe in another respect she 's got to the point where she ca n't be bothered ! |
| 26 | 'E 's got four lorries in there now an' I did 'ear 'e was lookin' fer anuvver place . |
| 27 | From my country upbringing I can remember fields of blaggets less common now but I do know of it still being grown in Orkney . |
| 28 | now if I was to go there and back that 's eighty pence , I mean I could get , for , for that e extra eighty pence I could get a few things in there that are dearer but I mean I like going down the town anyway and just wander and go back but I do get a few more bits in there now than I did . |
| 29 | I just I wanted to bring that out because I do feel that twenty nine percent is , is too high . |
| 30 | In so far as I did understand it , I welcome his commitment of the Labour party to the Trident programme . |