Example sentences of "what i [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What I did get away with was arguably worse than murder , and revealed for the first time something of what I was letting myself in for by getting involved with Karen Parsons . |
| 32 | I really did n't need another jumper , but what I did need was a button-to-the-neck cardigan . |
| 33 | What I did know was that Shadwell was involved . |
| 34 | What I did know was that I did n't want to grow up , and my diary records that I confessed as much — when pressed to my housemistress . |
| 35 | In fact , barn owls are reckoned to be one of the hardest breeds to hand-rear and train , and they are n't recommended for beginners — though I did n't know that then , What I did know was that I 'd probably lost the battle with this owl before I 'd started : I suspected he would be impossible to train , but I was so hooked on the idea of having my own bird that I could hardly drag myself away when I was looking at him . |
| 36 | What I did know was that I discerned in the detail the cynical hand of the practising hack . |
| 37 | Do n't ask me what I do want . |
| 38 | ‘ What I do want , I want my medicine what the hospital said I had to have . ’ |
| 39 | So I ask you to be open minded they may seem a little bit off the wall to start with , but everything that we do is done for a purpose to achieve er what we 're wanting to achieve and what I do want to achieve is by the end of tomorrow is to have given you a system . |
| 40 | Little , do n't know what I do want really but |
| 41 | What I do want is some wine to take back to school tomorrow , oh er I mean |
| 42 | I do n't imp intend to preach to the converted but what I do intend to say to anyone in this hall that 's either indifferent or complacent or just too idle to do anything than let this motion drift by them , that if we do n't get together on this issue to get the message over to our national officers and in turn the T U C , that if we do n't stand and fight for the right to uphold the basic principles of what I believe to be trade unionism , that is the right to withdraw labour , the right to protect our brothers and sisters from oppressive employers , the right to command decent conditions and fair pay without fair reprisal . |
| 43 | ‘ What I do intend is for you to drive down town with me right now , come into the notary 's office and sign away any rights you imagine you might have . |
| 44 | What what I do suggest is you know the clerk at Edingley |
| 45 | But what I do suggest is , a useful experiment is to pick a subject , start a stopwatch , talk for what you think is thirty seconds , stop the stopwatch and then see . |
| 46 | What I do think is very dangerous for a p for a candidate in any party is to flirt with the big idea of any of your opponents . |
| 47 | What I do think that we have to be very cautious about , however , is the manner in which we determine the unexpressed ‘ purpose ’ of legislation . |
| 48 | ‘ God has already shown him by the lightnings what I do think he already knew in his heart . |
| 49 | Erm I must confess to doubting whether such a pool of talent exists and I share the views er of the Noble Lord , Lord Motterstone who in a very powerful and commonsense speech made this point an and a number of other ones , but I have to say that what I do think exists is the temptation to create posts for friends of the Government , a process of which has been going for far too long and I mem and I wonder if er members on the other side would defend this position as my Noble Friend Lord Allen said earlier , quite sincerely if , say , another party were in power before when such a time arrives it will then be of little avail for them to run around complaining , for they will have sown the seeds of their own dissatisfaction . |
| 50 | But what I do think occurs , and this is bourne out er in my own case , I mean I 'm extremely reluctant to go into my staffroom simply because of the amount of smoking which goes on there . |
| 51 | Yes , Mr Chairman , I , erm , I , I , I do appreciate that erm , I 've been invited through Committee er , to go through what I do represent er , the building project erm , on behalf of the economic development , because as you all know , I 'm of course on the economic development before , but er , in the past I 've found that that I have er been , shall we say , relieved of my positions on other er , position , erm , unknownst to myself , and of course I have er , actually turned up on these planning functions and been there , and to me in the past , I have always found that if one is going to be missed one must then , one 's either asked if he wishes to continue , if he 's been doing his job properly , if he does n't do his job properly then it 's only right to replace him . |
| 52 | What I do stress is that the judge should approach the exercise of the discretion with a predilection to give effect to the child 's wishes on the basis that prima facie that will be in his or her best interests . |
| 53 | What I do love is landscaping , planting trees , turning a bare patch into a park . |
| 54 | But what I do care about is that , whatever we choose to call the quality of being statistically-improbable-in-a-direction-specified-without-hindsight , it is an important quality that needs a special effort of explanation . |
| 55 | What I do appear to be quite successful at is raising money for charity . |
| 56 | What I do mean is that although most women do hope for a happy and loving relationship with their husbands , the attainment of this is not the purpose of marriage . |
| 57 | On a version such as Hare 's , which does not incorporate a representative theory of perception , there will be a comparable implication : if things had not , in the past , looked to me as this now looks , I could not mean by ‘ This looks white ’ what I do mean . |
| 58 | ‘ That 's exactly what I do mean . |
| 59 | What I do regret , however , is that at great expense Johnnie Spencer filled a room at Althorp with paintings by that derivative Norfolk artist Edward Seago ( 1910–1974 ) . |
| 60 | What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police . |