Example sentences of "i do " in BNC.
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| 31 | I can remember doing my Mick again from The Caretaker and for Shakespeare I did an outrageous choice of Cardinal Wolsey from Henry VIII , which I do n't think I shall ever be suited to playing . |
| 32 | I learnt an enormous amount and felt then as I do now that there really is n't enough training . |
| 33 | A S. No , I do n't think so . |
| 34 | One job has led to another but I do remember a particular film audition which I walked out of , much to the concern of everyone , my agent , and the casting director . |
| 35 | No , I do not believe in the audition system . |
| 36 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 37 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 38 | I do not want , wrote Harsnet , to try and trace this logic or to dwell , in these notes , on the nature and direction of my earlier work , especially , he wrote , as I have always held that any new work worth its salt should be essentially different from all that has gone before , all that others have done and all that you have done , just as the deeds of each new day must never simply repeat those of the previous day or days . |
| 39 | Show up the folly of I feel this so I do that . |
| 40 | I do n't give two farts for yours , he said , but you have just dumped mine on a motorway layby . |
| 41 | I do n't know where on the map , I said . |
| 42 | I do not . |
| 43 | When that happens , he wrote , I do n't just feel I 'm not moving forward , I feel I 'm sliding right back . |
| 44 | I look at it and I do n't even see it . |
| 45 | Be very clear , he wrote : I do not feel that it is time and thought wasted because the end result is less than I had hoped . |
| 46 | Though there is a good deal there which I found deeply offensive , he wrote , as you must have realized when you sent me the stuff , though , knowing you as I do , I suspect it may not even have crossed your mind , anyway , to be brief , I have , of course , put my feelings to one side and decided to honour the integrity of . |
| 47 | I do n't want anyone to get lost in it , I said . |
| 48 | Only I do want effect of possibility of getting lost . |
| 49 | I do n't live in London , I told him . |
| 50 | He added quickly : Because I do n't , you know . |
| 51 | No , I said , I do n't feel that . |
| 52 | Even if the Gallery does not buy it I do not wish to have anything more to do with it . |
| 53 | First , I do not understand how anyone can possibly think that a menu which features one fat-laden course after another — foie gras , creamy soup , fat-wrapped lamb , pan-fried potatoes , cheese and more cream in the mousse — is a well-planned menu . |
| 54 | I do n't think the upswing will start before spring next year . ’ |
| 55 | I do what I do to the best of my ability and hope that people will hear about it and come and visit . |
| 56 | I do what I do to the best of my ability and hope that people will hear about it and come and visit . |
| 57 | I do not suffer from a lack of ambition , I simply accept life as it is . ’ |
| 58 | It 's caught by locals on the high tides and subsequently brought to the hotel at very competitive prices , I do n't seem able to say no to it , ’ says Andrew Baird , head chef at Longueville Manor , St Saviour , Jersey . |
| 59 | But , alas , madam , I do not in the present know what it is you are asking if I am seeing . ’ |
| 60 | I do reckon they have till sundown . |