Example sentences of "[coord] i do [adv] " in BNC.

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1 You could n't often get big sizes in them & I do n't think they did boys ' sizes in Dr. Martens — when they did , some girls wore them .
2 I 've forgotten when you said you 're going to Ottawa but if that 's really soon & I do n't hear from you before then , have a great time , I hope the meetings are short & the pints are big !
3 The real reason is I am frightened what folk will say , or I do not want to give up this particular habit of mine .
4 You 'd have to get rid of a lot of your assumptions before you could fully appreciate why I could n't live with a man I do n't love , or I do n't think you could ever understand why I ca n't accept to be maintained , to put myself at the disposal of another , be in another 's company twenty-four hours a day , share another 's pleasures and pains — and so on . ’
5 I mean , it could have very easily gone from there to everybody following a different path — going away from rock'n'roll and getting into jazz , or I do n't know what .
6 ‘ I command , or I do n't go .
7 Or I do n't think I want that new pair of jeans .
8 A small survey of drinkers ' attitudes ( see box , below ) showed that people thought reduced alcohol products were massively overpriced and an irrelevant halfway house ( ‘ I either drink or I do n't ’ was a typical comment ) .
9 I wanted to go into their clubs because erm I used to the , the Co-op , the dresses were a bit frumpy and er whether it was just er me , or I do n't know .
10 I , even as a friend and a colleague of the staff notice it strongly in little points of racism , all the time constantly there , it gets beyond a joke , I 've lost friends in the school or I do n't associate with certain members of staff purely because of the constant jibing which eventually gets beyond a joke .
11 I 'm not going to let her slide out of it or I do n't get my scoop . ’
12 He put down the tray on the floor , and brought out her cap from the pocket in his coat into which he had stuffed it , saying , however , ‘ Let go your hair or I do n't return it . ’
13 playroom , or I do n't know .
14 He was a Scotsman depending San Francisco and er situation that what you described but we were handing out food at Christmas Eve to people and people were coming up and er for their own proud they were saying things like I 'm a vegetarian or I do n't eat cheese pasties that was the case that was the only thing you had left but I mean it makes me really angry that we did not have this situation ten or twelve years ago .
15 Erm and had he had he patented it or I do n't know about exactly the timing , he might have made himself an absolute fortune .
16 Or I do n't think so anyhow , we 'd 've nailed it together for him for nothing and
17 Well it er it will be wood but whether it 's covered over whether it 's wood grain or whether it 's white or I do n't know .
18 He never cared for me nor I do n't care for him .
19 Erm where I have to qualify my my support is is , and and I do particularly want to stress that in no way would I accept the exceptions policy as a substitute to an appropriate increase in the employment alloca allocation for Selby District .
20 This method has been taught for many years and I do not think that pilots who have learned to do it this way need bother to change .
21 And I do not give you permission to fling yourself at her feet , grab her hands and weep into her palms .
22 The forts and barracks have gone up , an iron chain along the Great Glen , an iron ring round the coasts — you have built it for them , you have clamped these fetters on your own wrists , and I do not excuse myself — my first work was mending the roof of the arsenal at Fort Augustus in 1784 .
23 The known facts about Shakers are carefully set out by June Sprigg and I do not believe her work is a romantic history .
24 As there were 68 joints to be made , and I do not own a mortising machine , I decided on dowels .
25 I have never heard this case made in anything like the explicit fashion in which I have just outlined it , and I do not think it ever would be publicly made .
26 Otherwise I would have been sent back to my country and I do not know what would have happened to us . ’
27 I am often asked whether I approve of cosmetic surgery — and I do not .
28 MYSELF and Marco Polo is a working model of a novel , a clever toy , a verbal tournament , a facetious blueprint for a possible future seriousness : it could only be called a success if its author 's aim was merely to intrigue , and I do not feel that Paul Griffiths can be that crude .
29 He is alone , but not lonely , Ari thought , and I do not pity him any more .
30 Even if I allow him to scribble down a few paragraphs of his own fiction ( and I do not see why I should ) it still follows that any words he might write must in the first instance be composed by me .
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