Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] i do " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said — or rather I did , to her solicitors — that she would consider it again in a year or so when everyone was calmer . ’ |
| 2 | And not long before we left school , the poetical stage when we read poetry out of doors , or rather I did , while he listened . |
| 3 | Or perhaps I do . |
| 4 | Or perhaps I did diagnose it but I 've forgotten . |
| 5 | or underneath I do n't mind which . |
| 6 | er at the moment I was n't wanting to s s change any anything that , which is been happening up till now , I mean if people do want to come in here at weekends or late I do n't see any reason |
| 7 | ‘ I do need to warm up or else I do n't have the flexibility and I do n't have the finger strength . ’ |
| 8 | Once I 'd seen the recording of the race I knew , although perhaps I did n't want to admit it straight away . ’ |
| 9 | And the reason I ask that obviously I do n't want to go knocking on doors where somebody 's already tried |
| 10 | It went on so long that finally I did undress and started to give in to the sleep I could feel coming on me . |
| 11 | Hence my acceptance that yesterday I did not know prevents me from claiming knowledge today . |
| 12 | There is the possibility that though I myself would not be justified in making different claims , another person might perhaps be justified in saying that yesterday I did not know , while today I do . |
| 13 | My difficulty is as as you 've already heard I 've got no mandate to speak about particular locations or even sectors within Selby District although clearly I do have a mandate as I already have said to come along and say that we feel Selby District is an appropriate location . |
| 14 | We must do whatever we can to bring the murderer to justice , although realistically I do not think he will ever be found , ’ wrote Lt Col Stewart . |
| 15 | ‘ We must do whatever we can to bring the murderer to justice , although realistically I do not think he will ever be found , ’ concluded Lt Col Stewart 's statement . |
| 16 | Lt Col Stewart 's statement concluded : ‘ We must do whatever we can to bring the murderer to justice , although realistically I do not think he will ever be found . ’ |
| 17 | But a lot of these things come quite naturally er I hope we 'll see on when we look at the video that really I do n't think anybody had a major problem with the voice er and the words as well when you 're talking about two million pounds so in terms of the voice I do n't believe anybody has any major problems . |
| 18 | ‘ One that even I did n't believe at first . |
| 19 | I feel that sometimes I do try to play God when I do try and keep people alive beyond reasonable times . |
| 20 | You wanted to wake up with him right there in the room and to turn to him and quote the next line of the film right back at him , to whisper it to him , make me almost believe that we are a pair of young lovers without any shame , and I do n't mean that in some tragedy queen way , but in order to say of Boy that truly I do think that it is a beauty like his that makes it all worth while , and I do feel that if we are fighting for anything , and if I was asked in a questionnaire what it was I was fighting for ( and believe me I do feel like I am fighting , more and more I think that ) , then I would answer , beauty . |
| 21 | On the street again , suddenly I felt I was in the middle of a farce — ‘ POLICE SEARCH FOR THE BIG BANANA IS ON — and the discovery that actually I did have my cheque numbers in my moneybelt and that it was the photocopies that had been stolen made me almost light-headed . |
| 22 | The erm er on the television last night there was a programme about the fifties that actually I did n't see it but I taped it and I have seen it this morning er |
| 23 | I was determined that I would not communicate this nervousness to my sons , and so I did my best not to react should we come across a dog in the street . |
| 24 | She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did . |
| 25 | When I got back , I found a card from Ivy asking me to lunch — yesterday — Thursday ; and John had written to Ivy to say he thought I could go , and so I did , and she was pleased to have the loukoumi . |
| 26 | That was an answer I could give in medical detail , and so I did . |
| 27 | But I did go to America and so I did n't see the climax of the series , Henry V , until … |
| 28 | But it was for a reason that would cut no ice with Jean-Claude and so I did not put it to him . |
| 29 | And so I did n't say anything . ’ |
| 30 | It was vital I should go first into the town , to the castle , where such news first belongs , and so I did . |