Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] do [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to make my excuse sound plausible , but I fear I did hurt him ; he had been pronounced unfit for military service and he was lonely and smarting at his exclusion from the experience of his peers . |
| 2 | it it sort of keeps a sort of continuity in it and I mean I do think when we get to the end of the probationary year you 've sort of really learnt all the areas . |
| 3 | I mean I do think there are limitations with er |
| 4 | yeah , well I was there the other day and erm the bell went and nobody sort of moved and I thought I think , I know , you know , so I got up and I washed me cup of tea like , you know , they looked at me as if you know oh there 's a keen , but I mean I do think it 's important to do that , because not only that it 's not fair for the |
| 5 | I , I , I mean I do think that w what we would have to do is , is if people started making inroads into two via this route , it might mean then we 'd get to the point where it was n't going to cost that much more to enable other scale one people |
| 6 | erm I think I mean I do think it 's a stunt and I think stunts are very often not very well thought out , and I think your your definition is actually wrong . |
| 7 | I mean I do think that this is we have n't yet , I go back to the claim I made before that in the hundred days since he 's been Prime Minister his concentration has been taken up by the Gulf war , obviously . |
| 8 | The , they really convert bibles for doing that is because I 've always done that of er right that 's , that 's out of the way , jump the paperwork , now what about talking about your clubs and that t to sort of close down the call and relax the client for getting into referral mode and I 've always done it tail end on so the introduction to the referral is at the beginning and perhaps looking for them during i is totally unfamiliar , I mean I do note the odd thing as I go through and note them down on the , the but I 'd never been used to actually although we were told referrals how and why that went with it . |
| 9 | Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making . |
| 10 | I mean I do happen to belong to a group of poets and we set one another subjects regularly . |
| 11 | But I mean I do get used to being on my own and then like I mean I say he 's there like the , the other morni he went down his mother 's and he did n't come back till three o'clock so he 's not there constantly all the time . |
| 12 | Er check locally for claims of environmentally or sustainable tropical hardwood it 's not really , I mean I do look when I go to all these D I Y places to see what they 've got . |
| 13 | They did n't talk to me I mean I did talk to they because |
| 14 | Shall I , I shall have to apologize to the council , cos I mean I did do the , the survey of the erm residents and of course I had flu last month , I do apologize , I did n't actually manage to get that done . |
| 15 | they were laughing and giggling up the corner and er , I mean I did go just to let them know that although I did say I would n't come to every meeting I was quite prepared to still do |
| 16 | I mean I did go to Denman , but I was n't very well at the time and I did n't get round the house so I would like to go myself . |
| 17 | I mean I did ask you about the outstanding bills and loans whereas if we 'd 've been doing the thing properly we 'd 've gone through that |
| 18 | I mean I did read somewhere there were some studies done |
| 19 | I mean I did have some of the boxes in there until I sort of , thought while I was sorting things out . |
| 20 | she only had the bloody cheek to charge us last year for a turkey wrong , but I mean I did get that sorted out afterwards . |
| 21 | I do n't I do n't know that I 'd fancy doing , I mean I did like biology , but I do n't think I 'd specifically want to do the biology at the level that they 're doing it up there , cos it 's too much of a jump from what I 've ever done before |
| 22 | I expect she does love you in her own way , ’ she said gently . |
| 23 | Yes , I expect you did have to give a lot for your house . |
| 24 | ‘ But you say she did leave your employment . ’ |
| 25 | Oh yes , and we deal with the press a lot of course , but you , as I say you do get calls from anybody , about anything . |
| 26 | ‘ But you say you did speak to Hilary Frome earlier tonight ? ’ |
| 27 | No , but say you did get one though |
| 28 | You did say you wanted I say you did say you wanted to go did n't you ? |
| 29 | I say we did have it done . |
| 30 | Our opponents say we do cause such disturbance but I suspect that is only that is only because they see all canoeists as a noisy bunch of exuberant youngsters . |