Example sentences of "and [verb] i do " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , he looked at me admiringly , flourished his pen , wrote in the sum , turned the page , signed and asked me to do likewise on Jean-Claude 's account . |
| 2 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 3 | They gave me a line of coke , and asked me to do it for them . |
| 4 | She rung me up and asked me did I want a microwave oven ? |
| 5 | Things have been patched up between us by Lord Coleworthy , who likes me and thinks I do a good job . |
| 6 | I was so shaken up and upset I did not get to say thank you or even see his face , just the helpful hand outstretched to me . |
| 7 | Falstaff as ‘ a masculine decayed cornucopious form of the love goddess ’ is amusing as a paradox , though how the boar can be both Mars and Persephone I do not quite see . |
| 8 | Can you just explain how that would work though 'cos we 're now erm , auditing by job , are n't we , and given I do n't know the audit timetable I ca n't visualise the effect this would have but it seems that one could be making a change 'cos a particular , a job 's been audited and it effects Q P1 , or something one month , and therefore you make changes to it and another job 's audited the second , another month , the second month and Q P1 needs changing again , and it , in terms of keeping our staff with us , it will be quite conf , I think it 's not terribly practical to keep having constant change . |
| 9 | Think it must have been all the cleaning and dusting I did . " |
| 10 | Sergeant-Chef Gibeau leant over , tapped me on the forefinger with a table knife and told me to do them up again . |
| 11 | No , she co come and told me did you ask Emma out ? |
| 12 | She says Mackem and Tackem I du n no but that 's what people say |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm just trying to keep going and hope I do n't break down . ’ |
| 14 | But German-born Sebastian said later : ‘ I certainly did n't want to embarrass her and hope I did n't cause any offence . |
| 15 | What I 'm trying to do is chair a meeting and to prevent what happening what 's just happened when people start jumping up and shouting I do n't think that 's productive ways to chair any meeting or allow that to happen . |
| 16 | I ought to have stopped you in the beginning — I ought to have walloped you good and hard instead of hiding the things and pretending I did n't know anything about it . |
| 17 | It 's just — I want to go home and tell them to shut up about the exam results and let me do my own thing and leave me alone . |
| 18 | ’ Then waive your share and let me do it alone , ’ I suggested . |
| 19 | Now , for God 's sake , go to bed , and let me do the same . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Go away and let me do my work , or we 'll be running on one staff nurse and half an aspirin . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Now for heaven 's sake get some sleep — and let me do the same ! ’ |
| 22 | She was using condoms and advised me to do the same . |
| 23 | with , when I go in and dive I do |
| 24 | At this sort of a reunion , one looks to another and says I do n't look sixty , do I ? |
| 25 | I thought how nice it would be to just stroll across the road and look at the river , and it appears to be quite simple until you get there and meet I do n't know how many lanes of traffic . |
| 26 | First then , continuing our series of programmes on applications of computers , today we 're going to look at the so-called microprocessor , and to help me do this I have Doctor Fred Halsall and Doctor Paul Lister , who are engineers and specialists in this particular area . |
| 27 | When I go skiing I want dozens of fast tows to whisk me to the top of runs and ensure I do n't have to queue for 20 minutes behind a junior racing team , trying to unclip each other 's bindings and seeing how far they can spit . |
| 28 | It was their means of controlling my behaviour and getting me to do exactly what they wanted . |
| 29 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 30 | ‘ And kissing me does n't help ? ’ |