Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [adv] [conj] i do " in BNC.
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| 1 | I agree with the principles set out above although I do not believe an English court would give damages in those particular circumstances . |
| 2 | around the m around the Mansfield =field , and these Children , at School they know far more than I do at my age I think . |
| 3 | No ’ — he forestalled Cameron 's objection — ‘ you know as well as I do , Angus , the Duke is daft but he is clever , and he has an entry to every house from Atholl to Dunkeld . |
| 4 | You know as well as I do that you can not take an animal unless it 's dead and that animal died in the minefield . ’ |
| 5 | In any case , you know as well as I do that the MDs are always American . ’ |
| 6 | You have to be punished in some way , and you know as well as I do that your case lacks substance . |
| 7 | ‘ You know as well as I do that if she knows about Ari , she 'll want a piece of the action . |
| 8 | You know as well as I do that we can too easily by intonation or facial expression or ( the prose equivalent of those signals ) by the precise positioning of a single word in the surrounding thicket of language make the simple statement ‘ I love you ’ mean ‘ I own you , despise you , exploit , deceive or hate you ’ just as the equally plain ‘ I hate you ’ can be picked up as ‘ I fear , envy , respect , despise , own , exploit , deceive or love you , love , love you . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You know as well as I do ’ |
| 10 | ‘ My dear Kegan , you know as well as I do that you came in on my side of the fence not out of some great disinterested love of science — you do n't know what science is all about ! — but because you saw a hope of personal glory in it ! |
| 11 | ‘ Not rubbing anything out — you know as well as I do , you 're not allowed to rub anything out . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You know as well as I do it 's a damned great industry — and there are plenty of facets to it that never see the light of day . |
| 13 | ‘ You know as well as I do , ’ said Loppe , ‘ that when Famagusta surrenders , this island will split into flame like a fireball . |
| 14 | You know as well as I do that Rudolfo 's the only one involved who has a house up there . |
| 15 | And he was about to add , ‘ But you know as well as I do there 's a reason in both cases , ’ but instead , he said , ‘ Well ! well ! |
| 16 | ‘ You know as well as I do . ’ |
| 17 | And just as instinctively lowering his voice , he said again , ‘ You know as well as I do . |
| 18 | I have given my third and fourth preferences to candidates who , if not exactly " worthless " , know as well as I do they have no chance of being elected . |
| 19 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 20 | They know as well as I do that it has nothing whatsoever to do with who heads a company . |
| 21 | You know as well as I do that the Wharfmasters are living off the fat of the land on their company profits , but how are the dockers expected to support their wives and kids on seventy-two shillings and sixpence a week ? ’ |
| 22 | You know as well as I do , they only stop talking about you when you 're six foot under . ’ |
| 23 | You know as well as I do , Christina , Barbados has a way of doing strange things to people . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You know as well as I do , in English literature the only safe place is in the loft with the apples . ’ |
| 25 | You know as well as I do that art and commerce have walked hand in hand since at least the Renaissance . ’ |
| 26 | You know as well as I do the sort of thing to ask him . |
| 27 | ‘ Ellen , you know as well as I do that she can never forget me ! |
| 28 | But you know as well as I do how banks hate having to call in loans — we 're much happier to keep our customers in business . |
| 29 | You know as well as I do a child was never born to Miss Lavant . |
| 30 | It 's a little bit unfair I think as well to generalize , on sponsored members of parliament because , you know as well as I do , on some of the issues that have been very very important to us , not the sort erm , er the sexy issues that head , hit the headlines , but issues that mean a lot to our members , our sponsored members generally do work very , very hard . |