Example sentences of "[adv] i do [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She goes in the thirteenth and hopefully will be out the twenty third , I realize this is a big operation but I want Cheryl to come along anyway , book the table , stay with us , come with us If she could n't make it which she 'll be in so I do understand that |
| 2 | So , cos I do actually sit down and work it out , and me mum comes in and says , what you doing , , so I do use that way . |
| 3 | If you put two eights in I did put another eight in , but that 's six or eight . |
| 4 | Erm but nevertheless I do think that is a a super portrait . |
| 5 | ‘ You may be sure , ’ said Jared Tunstall , ‘ that if ever I do go bankrupt I should certainly die of grief , or of mortification at such a turn . |
| 6 | But also I do get bored when I 'm not working . |
| 7 | No but I like her and everything but holy shit , I really I do need some time to go to school and like be by myself . |
| 8 | ‘ But now I do feel bitter about what happened — I really believe I lost the chance to breastfeed my baby because I was left to cope on my own . ’ |
| 9 | Now I do feel old . |
| 10 | she said now I do like that , cos it looks nice and warm cos there 's loads of colours in it , there 's pink , there 's burgundy , there 's blue , green , every colour you can think of , you 've bro |
| 11 | Now I do remember that . |
| 12 | Well I did do all my housework , you 'd never know I 'd done it . |
| 13 | Well I did gather that . |
| 14 | Well I did say that , yeah |
| 15 | Yes I well I did have one of those . |
| 16 | Well I did have some more but I thought no I |
| 17 | and he wants some long-line , well I did have some , but I do n't know if I 've still got them |
| 18 | Well I did hear that point , it 's , it 's interesting because in fact Lithuania er President Boris Yeltsin signed an agreement in July , er which effectively Russia recognise Lithuania as an independent state , it was the second country in the world to do that , er all of this was sorted out in a very er , good , er peaceful , sensible way , there , obviously Russia has concerns in Lithuania er not least the district . |
| 19 | Well I did see that . |
| 20 | er who 's probably thinking well I do need some new boots for the garden , but er |
| 21 | Well , the mortgage would be paid off and er well I do have some life insurance . |
| 22 | say that and you say , Well I do say that . |
| 23 | Maybe I did fall asleep for a moment or two when I shut my eyes hoping to enter my dream again . |
| 24 | Then I did get frightened . |
| 25 | Of course sometimes I do have additional information showing that the authority is better than me in some areas and not in others . |
| 26 | Oh , how I do like those lines , and when I repeat them now it brings back so many happy memories of that scamp of a grandfather of mine . |
| 27 | ‘ We have time , and indeed I did mark this lady waiting in your anteroom . |
| 28 | My spontaneous recoil from awareness of others ' troubles ( or of future danger to myself ) is no less or more natural than my impulse to sympathy or cruelty ( or to avoid or irrationally court danger ) when I do become aware ; it is as pointless to ask whether human nature is selfish or unselfish as whether it is improvident or far-sighted . |