Example sentences of "[pers pn] do [adv] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 I do not ordinarily go to Egyptian plays .
2 I do n't know how to — I do not even want to — dispel this cold mist left over from the fog .
3 I do not now allude to preference though of course that comes first .
4 I know it 's good , but I do n't particularly want to be reminded about how life felt at sixteen .
5 I do n't particularly want to fork out a
6 But I 'm , I do n't particularly want to .
7 Although I I do n't exactly belong to it any more , but I said I 'd go down .
8 I think I mean it was interesting cos someone said earlier about people coming in I mean once you get them in I mean I always feel it 's like the pantomime each year which is an amateur pantomime yet the actual people coming in to see that I mean it 's well in the ninety per cent 's and you talk to people when they come to see the pantomime and ver invariably the the mum 's or dad 's say no I do n't normally come to theatre but I come to the pantomime and they enjoy it very much and when you talk to them they can say well what you think of it ?
9 I do n't just want to be a ‘ cleaner-up ’ .
10 I do n't even want to be , ’ Jessamy threw back at her , just a little too fiercely .
11 I do n't even want to . ’
12 I do n't necessarily has to be a mother and father I think , so long as they are good role models that they have .
13 I mean , I do n't especially want to , but … ’
14 Well you see I go to bed , but I do n't always go to sleep .
15 But I do n't always seem to be fully in control of myself when you 're around . ’
16 I do n't usually go to pieces like this . ’
17 I do n't rightly like to . ’
18 I do n't much want to be a charge on charity if I can avoid it . "
19 I do n't much want to be at home on my own .
20 We did put one more record together with Bob Clearmountain , ‘ Into The Fire ’ , and that 's when I said , ‘ That 's it , I do n't really want to be hands-on any more . ' ’
21 I do n't really want to be seen as part of the team and it 's not because I do n't like them — they 're all nice people — it 's just that I do n't want to be The Word 's latest wanker .
22 I do n't really want to be cope with Deborah and Catherine the day Clare goes off to Isle of Wight do we ?
23 Gizzmo keeps trying to persuade me to go with her but I do n't really want to .
24 Well I do n't know Jane , I do n't really listen to any gossip up that end , you know what I mean ?
25 I do n't really need to be Just so long
26 I do n't ever want to be away from you again , ’ Maggie confessed , winding her arms around his neck .
27 And I do n't ever listen to hedgehog jokes .
28 René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’
29 I did not even complain to the British Medical Association — as I was in law entitled so to do — about the gross impertinence of a certain toothy and incompetent doctor in this very borough who imagined in his stupidity that I was incapable of reading upside-down the notes he was making on the other side of a desk at which I was once unwise enough to sit .
30 I did not therefore expect to be invited here and was resigned to being by myself yet again and sure my spirits would once more be lowered .
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