Example sentences of "i [vb mod] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know if I shall join the company yet , I may do , I may go to Paris , I may die , my face may even turn blue . |
| 2 | " I may do , when I return from town . |
| 3 | ‘ I may do . |
| 4 | Erm and I think I may do one in the middle of there and then leave that s like that . |
| 5 | Luckily , the rain had stopped and I spent a few minutes baling out , thinking once again that I must do something about drainage , but never seem to get round to it as the weather clears up and everything dries out very quickly . |
| 6 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
| 7 | I must do the watering carefully , I told myself each day — not make a mess . |
| 8 | ‘ If there 's any chance of being selected I must do it . |
| 9 | But this is one of the experiences that taught me very early in my career that I must do the opposite . |
| 10 | She thought , I must do something , I must see to myself . |
| 11 | ‘ I must do just a few more menial things before I go to bed ’ or , more oddly , ‘ I was nearly run over on my menial way this morning . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Still , he thought , I must do what I can to protect the lady , to whom I owe so much , and whom I have certainly , for better , for worse , released from sleep and silence . |
| 13 | He said I must do his bidding , or he would reveal the falsehood and have me imprisoned for fraud . |
| 14 | Back with Miss Maine I was shown what was thought to be the trickiest of all the work I must do . |
| 15 | He had also told me that any German who came his way would ‘ get it , ’ so I felt I must do likewise in hospital . |
| 16 | There is something I must do . ’ |
| 17 | And so I knew I must do this now . |
| 18 | It also means that I must do no injury in any form to the sub-human species . |
| 19 | What I must do is get to know the people over a few hours or days and find out what they 're trying to do , what their activities are , whether they have children or pets . |
| 20 | This year has been the most difficult and disturbing of my 40-year reign , but it has brought home to me that I must do everything I can to continue to carry out that duty . |
| 21 | I was bought to score and that 's what I must do . ’ |
| 22 | I knew it was n't going to be easy , as it was so very much his world , but I realized I must do it soon , because the longer I delayed , the longer I felt I would go on doing so — like facing up to the ashes . |
| 23 | ‘ I know , but I must do something more creative . |
| 24 | It would have been easy for me just to put off the difficult decisions we need to take , but I must do what is right for this country . |
| 25 | I was as a man who was pulling down his house upon the head of his wife and children , yet thought I , I must do it , I must do it . ’ |
| 26 | I was as a man who was pulling down his house upon the head of his wife and children , yet thought I , I must do it , I must do it . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm sorry but … but I must do it . ’ |
| 28 | I must do something , I thought , so I rang up a friend of mine called David Woolcock . |
| 29 | ‘ First thing I must do is to sell the emeralds I inherited from my mother , they will bring me in enough to buy in leather and begin to trade again . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm killing all these plants by taking my students to Land 's End , I must do something about it . |