Example sentences of "do [vb infin] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I really do want to do more TV and film work . |
| 2 | I mean , I think a lot of national organisations that are giving , I trust that are giving money to people actually do want to know that sort of detail about where the money is going , because , if I go through this , I mean , I would have to say that I should imagine that a very small percentage of the money that has been collected on these flag days will actually get back into Oxfordshire . |
| 3 | It 's helpful in the context of the dollar preference shares we want to issue because one of the factors of this very small , and as you say cheap er , historic issue of preference shares is that , er no preference shares other than those can be repaid prior to that and the dollar shares we wish to issue which are permanent shares , can be er , can be erm repaid at our option and we do want to keep that flexibility in the context of either if interest rates get very high or if the tax treaty between the U S and the U K changes to make them more onerous on the company and in those circumstances we would be inhibited by the existence of this small historic issue of preference shares and therefore it is on balance , although you 're quite right there , a cheap er , source of capital in themselves it is helpful to the company in the wider sense I believe if they are repaid . |
| 4 | We 've taken all this into account , erm I 'm not sure all groups have tried to do that , erm but we have tried to please everyone , we do have some particular priorities and we do want to make significant improvements in service where we can and not necessarily looking for cheap publicity by increasing in lots of places as some people are supposed to of done so where one concludes sometime a significant amount of money in but will have a noticeable difference to their essential service . |
| 5 | ‘ I do want to play Premier League football next season , but with Portsmouth and not with anyone else . ’ |
| 6 | I do prefer to wear smart clothes for work ; it 's still not easy for women in business to be taken seriously — I like to look the part . |
| 7 | ‘ I did want to do this run without books . ’ |
| 8 | But you do need to do good voice and movement workouts — it 's like going back to the keyboard for a musician . |
| 9 | So what we actually are possibly seeing is ourselves coming out of the trough so therefore part of it 's a training curve , but we do need to see that training curve start to come down and get back on to a level but we do n't know where the level is , that 's what worries us at this stage . |
| 10 | You do need to put this matter right as a horse with a dipping foreleg will generally be more prone to ‘ pecking ’ i.e. tripping on landing after a jump . |
| 11 | They may need to go out in pairs which is why I think that we do need to put more money into the budget to provide this service and make sure that we 're doing it in the best possible way , erm so I mean I think that it 's very important that we 're consistent about this . |
| 12 | I also think that apart from the corporate plan , the strategy and the mission statement , you really do need to give some vision about the future of your company and a vision in which those working with you can share . |
| 13 | … first of all … they do need to acquire manipulative skills in order to play a xylophone , french horn , synthesizer , whatever … so they learn these as and when they need them … through to recording techniques and so on and so on , but always when they need them … |
| 14 | We do need to fill all spaces for outsiders in order to subsidise the Medauhalf . |
| 15 | It is that is a paper from somebody , I know not who , but can I just explain , if we 're having one franchise passenger service next year , which is pretty well all you can do because you do need to have that record , track record , the business operating as a separate business before bidders can bid , if we 're having one next year , to suggest as I think the quote was , that the that would cost about one point two billion pounds is ridiculous , it 's ridiculous , a single , a single , |
| 16 | Oh well we do need to get some armbands for Andrew I think whatever I think we should buy the armbands cos Chris erm Andrew needs them |
| 17 | I think we do need to make some adjustments , in the light of that , if we remain in our present staffing level . |
| 18 | Though rejected by the Labour Cabinet and the Treasury as impractical and contrary to the tenets of the prevailing fiscal orthodoxy , the notion of generous pensions with a retirement condition did appeal to moderate Labour opinion for the rest of the 1930s . |
| 19 | Pupils do ask questions of truth , do seek to establish moral foundations for their lives , do quest for a spirituality which will assuage their own sense of rootlessness and hunger for meaning as well as teach them how to live compassionately and courageously on our fragile planet . |
| 20 | Children do appear to assume different words contrast with each other in meaning , and they impose contrasts in meaning where there are differences in form . |
| 21 | Wagstaff argues that the few studies which do appear to show modest improvement in recall under hypnosis failed to have control groups which were equally encouraged to remember . |
| 22 | What is particularly noteworthy is the fact that , despite the relative paucity of religious output compared to , say , news or drama , many people do choose to encounter religious programming . |
| 23 | ‘ Firefighting has traditionally been a male preserve but we do expect to see more women joining our ranks , ’ said a brigade spokesman . |
| 24 | It is accepted that individual positions are unequally rewarded , but the questions of access and opportunity now become central , and although Western capitalist societies do not claim to be equal , they do claim to offer equal opportunity to all in the competition for unequal positions . |
| 25 | However , do remember to use these products with tap water only — not stream , pond or river water . |
| 26 | Hilary Wainwright did begin to raise such questions in stating that truly radical television would have to address the needs of its audience if it was to be able to ‘ imagine the real messy , [ business of socialism ] ’ . |
| 27 | Again , Lenin 's promise that the main aim of NEP was to restore peasant fortunes did begin to bear real fruit before the end of 1922 . |
| 28 | But , even supposing we do begin to awaken these sentiments in ourselves and other people , erm major problems are still ahead . |
| 29 | But it it goes into picking it out of er I and I think maybe when we do decide to do another training needs analysis . |
| 30 | If you do decide to keep this fish , and have difficulty obtaining stock , then I may know someone who has one or two to spare … |