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

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31 Watch a legless man in a wheelchair completing the London Marathon and we cry , or at least I do .
32 You have to speak to the cabinet makers and so on , so at least I do n't have to get up there and saw the wood !
33 I also smoke , but at least I do n't drink much alcohol .
34 At least I do n't think she was .
35 At least I do n't think so , ’ I told her , but she just smiled and told me she had no further use for me that day and to call the next day which was to be a school holiday .
36 At least I do n't smoke . ’
37 At least I do n't have to worry about the bailiffs because there is nothing left to take . ’
38 At least I do n't know the words .
39 You rarely need more than a teaspoonful , you add it at the absolute final moment of cooking , you do not blaze it ( at least I do not ) , you treat it simply as a seasoning .
40 At least I do n't think I could .
41 You do n't really understand him , at least I do n't .
42 At least I do n't think there was .
43 At least I do n't go round killing the poor buggers , ’ he says .
44 At least I do n't have to keep carrying it forward any more .
45 At least I do n't have to watch my weight now , ’ she 'd say .
46 Audubon , however , was outraged : ‘ Here there are at present three Works publishing on the Birds of Europe ’ , he wrote to his friend Rev. Bachman , from London in 1835 , ’ — one by Mr Gould and the others by no one knows who — at least I do not know — Works on the Birds of all the World are innumerable — Cheap as dirt and more dirty than dirt … ’
47 Well no , er at least I do n't think he does er
48 At least I did n't get my photo taken by the zoom-lensed police photographer on the touchline ( at least I do n't think I did ) .
49 I saw that the wing commander engineering , who also was a pilot ( but in those days they did an engineering course as we had no Engineering Officers , at least I do not remember any ) opened his window in the office and climbed out .
50 I mean at least I do get a pair of smart shoes and they were lovely those shoes all day
51 At least I do n't think Joey 's got any children .
52 do that at least I do n't have
53 George , a former school truant and now a construction trainee , said : ‘ At least I did something … but the others , you saw them at school , just lazy . ’
54 At least I did
55 We felt , or at least I did , intensely happy , and I found myself looking straight into people 's faces and smiling at them .
56 Or at least I did .
57 But at least I could still kid myself , at least I did n't have my nose rubbed in it . ’
58 At least I did n't wake you up , then , ’ she observed huskily , waves of warmth invading her body at Roman 's nearness .
59 I walked quickly , but at least I did n't run .
60 At least I did not recognize her ; but then she was such a shrinking , washed-out-creature — when later I had lunch with one of Eliot 's former doctors he described her as ‘ an ugly little thing ’ , which was rather unkind and hardly accurate — that she could easily have escaped notice .
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