Example sentences of "i do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whatever I do ( and I do plenty ) I can not change Rainbow 's belief that it is as blessed to give as to receive . |
| 2 | ‘ Soloing is the thing I do best ; everything else I kind of struggle with . |
| 3 | It 's what I do best . |
| 4 | I should stick to what I do best . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ What I do best — supervising ! ’ |
| 6 | Some even went so far as to stipulate the use of linen in their will : Hannah Deane of High Ongar , Essex , took account of the £5 fine when drawing up her instructions in 1784 : ‘ And I do hereby Order and direct that sum of Ten pound shall be paid to the person who shall … see me Inclosed and laid in my Coffin in Linen and shall give Information and make Oath thereof wheereby the Poor of the parish Will be intitled to the sum of fifty shilling … . ’ |
| 7 | And my Will is to be Buried in Linen in a Suit which I shall provide for that purpose And I do hereby order and direct that the Sum of Ten Pounds shall be paid to the person who shall be the last in attending me to the time of my expiring and who shall see me Inclosed and laid in my Coffin in Linen . |
| 8 | Does the phrase ‘ I Do Hereby exoner , acquit and simpliciter Discharge ’ mean any more than ‘ I Do Hereby Discharge ’ or even ‘ I Discharge ’ , or does it leave the layman wondering if the words contain some qualification to or extension of an absolute discharge , slipped in by a crafty lawyer to defeat the ends of justice ? |
| 9 | Does the phrase ‘ I Do Hereby exoner , acquit and simpliciter Discharge ’ mean any more than ‘ I Do Hereby Discharge ’ or even ‘ I Discharge ’ , or does it leave the layman wondering if the words contain some qualification to or extension of an absolute discharge , slipped in by a crafty lawyer to defeat the ends of justice ? |
| 10 | I do little but rest and try to put this house into some sort of order but as yet there is neither pleasure nor profit in it . |
| 11 | Before she closed the door , Sophie asked , ‘ What would you suggest I do instead ? |
| 12 | ‘ Reason tells me I do right to let you go , yet my heart urges me to hold on to you … ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I do rather a lot of amateur acting , you know , and I 'm supposed to be rather good at accents . ’ |
| 14 | She sweetly punctuated every pause with ‘ Actually , we have had quite a few calls saying the same thing , ’ and ‘ Actually , I must say , I do rather agree with you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I do rather wonder about that , ’ drawled Lexandro . |
| 16 | I do rather feel that the Montagues and Capulets music is a little too hectic , but the other episodes are beautifully managed . |
| 17 | I do rather enjoy having the flat to myself , despite a constant battle with my clutter ! |
| 18 | I do rather crave a motor car . |
| 19 | I do rather object to the sort of chap who farts in public and then says ‘ Better out than in . ’ ’ |
| 20 | I hate to say this but I do rather think from the bruising that someone did it to him . ’ |
| 21 | I do rather use the one , like me I 'd like two , cos I 've got one full of bits and pieces and the odds , odds and ends I keep |
| 22 | I do rather resent it when there are other council committees , there 's Town Hall Strategy Working Party in the afternoon , now if we 're going to be sure that we can all get to this without conflict with other committees , erm I had to be there on behalf of the Lord Mayor because she had duties , erm and I was very sorry not to be able to come , because I have dealt , visited many occupational , I wanted to visit the officers , and you know , it is n't always possible where you have a conflict of interests . |
| 23 | However , I do strongly suspect that he could change my perspective of reality so as to make it extremely difficult not to attack the person . |
| 24 | This may be to acquaynt you that their is a pore yong women in oure Towne of Asston-underlyne infected with a filthy deceassed called the French poxe and shee saith shee was defiled by one Henry Heyworth a maryed man , but soe it is the report of that dessease occasioneth neighbours to deny hir harbour and shee is enforced to lye in the streetes and in great danger to bee starved , I do humbly intreate your worshipps to take it into your consideration and to grant your Order that the pore woman may be provyded for to prevent starveing , either upon the parrish charges , or upon the Costs of the said Heyworth whom she saith hath spoiled hir , whether yiur worshipps shall think fitt |
| 25 | That 's what I do when I get worried — I try to figure it out . |
| 26 | ‘ Every day , the first thing I do when I wake in the morning is go to the window to look at the pond . |
| 27 | Suppose that it is known that a financial expert reaches the ‘ right ’ decision ( whatever that may be ) in 20% more cases than I do when I do not rely on his advice . |
| 28 | I 'm sure someone like Graeme Souness at Liverpool feels like I do when our teams lose , but expectations change when you 're at the top compared to the bottom . |
| 29 | In short , whereas there is not the possibility of using an argument from analogy to answer factual questions about time on the Sun , there is the possibility when it comes to people 's feelings , and so , being predisposed by the second reason to think that there is some sort of connection between moaning and the pain-language , we naturally fall into the trap of confusing valid fact-establishing arguments from analogy with invalid meaning-establishing ones , and produce the well-known argument that I am , in general , justified in applying ‘ mental ’ language to other people by the fact that they behave as I do when I 'm in a certain state of mind . |
| 30 | After 30 seconds or so , he stops and rubs his left hand across his face in the way I do when I 've just woken from a night 's sleep . |