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

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1 I 'll just finish reading this and then I 'll er go and do give me a smackerooney , look at that lovely face , a little angel , a little angel
2 I think the teachers did influence me a lot in their own enthusiasm for the subject ; it seemed to rub off on me , you know ; whenever they taught me something , a new concept or something , I 'd come away feeling enlightened by it , and wanting to know more , just this curiosity for more knowledge .
3 A harmless grass snake , I concluded , although I must admit that the proximity of the Reptile Centre did make me a touch more circumspect than usual as I made for the summit .
4 They did send me a cheque for £8 , which I returned as inadequate .
5 Well , I had such a lovely day , it 's so nice and sunny and warm , should have did send me a card
6 If you 'd like to meet up for a drink or something , do give me a call on the above number .
7 ‘ Although , when I was going he did give me a sort of squeeze and said I 'd got the loveliest mouth he 'd ever seen . ’
8 ‘ Oh , you did give me a fright .
9 They did give me the name of the hospital Salome was in and the taller one told me that the accident had happened ‘ just off the M20 near Wrotham ’ , but they had no more details , they were just running errands for the Kent police .
10 Do send me an interim copy as soon as you can , even in draft or uncorrected form , so that I can all the better rack my brains for you !
11 Sir , I thanke you , but I thynke I might the better doo it , if you did showe me the woorkinge of it .
12 Do drop me a line , Mrs Surridge , or anyone else who 's interested .
13 Your mum did tell me a few weeks ago
14 So I explained to them , I said well that 's cos you changed over and I sort of never put it across through oh she said well do n't worry I 've done it now , she said you have n't got anything to worry about now , I said well it did bother me a bit to think that I did n't think you had my payment !
15 Then she did get me an appointment with this new clinic that was opening at the hospital , but it was too late .
16 wardens and whatever , we do n't take the double yellow lines half seriously enough , erm and I think parking generally is , is something we 're very bad at and I 'm an occasional sinner in this respect too , but it , it did strike me the other day , erm paying a fifteen pound fine for parking on a single yellow line on a Sunday afternoon but I had n't noticed a sign that said I should n't , erm paying that fifteen pound fine in other words not having paid the six pound instant fine , I remember thinking that , really there 's , there was no way of talking back , and I had in fact attempted an explanation as to why I 'd done it , and explained the reasons why I thought this really was very overlookable on the side of the law , erm I do n't suppose they paid much attention to it , I do n't imagine giving it a moment 's thought at all .
17 ‘ You do love me a little bit , do n't you , Harry ? ’ she said .
18 It did sting me a bit the first time I used it but has n't since .
19 ‘ To go there with Hereford does give me a chance to get some revenge , I suppose , but that wo n't be my priority .
20 ‘ To go there with Hereford does give me a chance to gain some revenge , I suppose , but that wo n't be my priority .
21 Just to add to what 's been said erm there , there have been some points raised er along the lines I 've mentioned and as a result of that erm it is felt that erm notification to members who are not on the application sub-committee of applications which affect their ward area could be improved and that is er I hope to be the subject of a report to the next meeting of the Application Sub-Committee , so that er matter i is something which is , which is being picked up and will be considered by that sub-committee but it does give me the opportunity to say that erm the definition of a complaint i is certainly not a precise one and I certainly would n't want members of this committee to feel that I was being complacent er as a result of there only being three complaints that we received .
22 Mind you , this does give me an unfair advantage .
23 The boats are blue , the nets are black , and the whole scene does remind me a little of the Adriatic , even if not precisely of Venice .
24 Erm no , he does help me a few things but I do all the digging for him because he ca n't bend down too much .
25 We have done some work with your offices on that , and whilst on most of your activities are n't happy with er the scale of such that it does cause me a problem , there is one particular area that we are in discussion with the Chief Executive , and your offices relating to doing work for other bodies to and the contract vehicle hire service , and er , that 's something which we will and no doubt will be brought us in the very near future .
26 Like most of you I suspect , I am totally f-ed off with Leeds United at the moment , but one subject that does cheer me a little is the young players who are our future .
27 I was delighted to see that th on the if you are now considering buying extra funds to see an encouragement residential home places There is however an important issue where you get shall we say a quality development in a rural area , and I mean a quality development , which would be probably has to be above the rates quoted here where talk a discussion with the owners because they may not be available to local people and that does concern me a bit in rural areas .
28 One of the things that does , I 'm not being Chairman , just asking questions , but one of the things that slightly concerns me because I know that in his document the director has put about providing day care type facilities in rural areas and I remember at our last meeting , the last meeting at one , we discussed specifically and area , erm it does , does worry me a little whether the absence of any capital expenditure on our part means that we may be providing day care facilities in some areas but it 'll be of a very much lower quality or a lesser quality than we may be providing anywhere else in the areas like and and .
29 ‘ It does worry me the longer it goes on without one .
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