Example sentences of "[pron] do sometimes [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do sometimes fancy something a bit more refined . ’ |
| 2 | I do sometimes go down to 2½lb , but although I have never been broken on it I never feel as confident as I ought . |
| 3 | I said you , she said yes , I 'm afraid so and I said I do sometimes begrudge it to those men in there . |
| 4 | I do sometimes have a lay down but in my school she says right , can you go and , I go like that . |
| 5 | Bacardi and coke is my only tipple and I do sometimes get through a couple on nights when I 'm in myself , well it 's better than turning to the biscuit barrel is n't it ? |
| 6 | I do sometimes get asked how many machines I 've had and although I have n't actually counted them up , you will see that it is quite a few ! ! |
| 7 | always says Hello to me every time she sees me and I do sometimes see in the mornings . |
| 8 | I never expected it to be easy , but I do sometimes wish for those moments that I experienced in the distant past , when the umpire used to say , ‘ game , set and match ’ , and you shook hands before entering the comparative safety of the changing room . |
| 9 | Mm , no , let me have those then , cos I do sometimes poach an egg |
| 10 | People who do sometimes find out they are very unhappy , either because the course is not what they expected , or because they just do n't like the institution . |
| 11 | The British seeker lost in the German metaphysical jungle , the homecomer from Paris dinner-parties armed with the latest idea , or what he hopes may pass for that , are abiding images for fun-making ; and cultural insularity is a vice to be levelled against the British only by those who do not know them , though those who do sometimes have cause to wish it were true . |
| 12 | When you are at this age and you come up against a brick wall , you do sometimes feel like screaming with frustration . |
| 13 | A : Goodness , how you do sometimes remind me of Bernard ! |
| 14 | ‘ So you do sometimes think before you act ? |
| 15 | Well , it 's like you check the lists , you can quickly , even if you think you remembered it , you can still quickly read through to see whether you 've done all those different things , and you do sometimes forget , so it 's useful for that as well . |
| 16 | But — although this is very rare — you do sometimes come across one or two who seem to have a genuine interest and ‘ feel ’ for the birds ; then , obviously , I try to give them all the advice and encouragement I can . |
| 17 | No one goes to such lengths now , though you do sometimes hear complaints from artists about the position of their work . |
| 18 | Nominally a deputy to the chancellor ( for whom he or she does sometimes stand in on ceremonial occasions , such as graduation ceremonies ) , the pro chancellor does have a substantial role , as chair of the council of a university , with overall responsibility for its financial and other non-academic affairs . |
| 19 | Admittedly , we do sometimes talk as if a person could have a pain in his foot and be unaware of it , perhaps while his attention is on something else , but this is explained by there being different levels of consciousness , or self-consciousness , in the mind ; it does not require our saying that pains have the same sort of mind-independent existence as tables . |
| 20 | Whilst everyone in Parcelforce is working hard to give you the best possible service , we do sometimes make mistakes . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , ’ said Helen , ‘ I do know a girl who works in the outer office there , and we do sometimes meet up for lunch and I could try to put her on to it … |
| 22 | Even so we do sometimes find admissions that women were doing the more advanced tasks . |
| 23 | Now it is clear that we do sometimes have alternative ways of determining guilt and innocence to our own satisfaction and it therefore makes sense to think of a fair trial as a trial designed to produce the correct verdict where correctness is assessable by some other objective standards , but in many cases this is not so and in practice the correct verdict is simply the one which is reached after a fair trial . |
| 24 | But there do sometimes seem to be trend reversals on the route to this . |
| 25 | They did sometimes falter against lesser teams , and in particular had a habit of losing to Crystal Palace in Cup ties , but Northampton were still rank outsiders , especially as their League performances were in the doldrums . |
| 26 | Needless to say , these events did n't silence the persistent drumming , though they did sometimes drown it out . |
| 27 | on that to sort of show you the power of the system we were just using to erm The obvious thing to do is to label every area of the diagram , and do n't forget they do sometimes say , Seven were not interested in |
| 28 | The point is not that the theological pronouncements of scientists are to be discounted but rather that they do sometimes have to be seen as efforts at mediation . |
| 29 | Even so , they do sometimes become dislodged by the ferocity of the strike . |
| 30 | Compared to overtly authoritarian regimes , British governments make relatively little use of suppression and censorship , though they do suppress some information and they do sometimes censor the media , especially on defence and security matters . |