Example sentences of "[vb pp] [that] i do " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's cheered me up no end to be reminded that I do have work and a brain and something to do when I 'm allowed up again . ’ |
| 2 | He has forgotten that I do not drink , or perhaps he thinks I am bluffing . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've now realised that I do n't . ’ |
| 4 | It is a measure of how fast and far events have moved that I do so now . |
| 5 | The egoist might raise a further objection : granted that I do indeed suffer from a sufferer 's viewpoint , I generally feel very much less from other viewpoints than from my own ; then will not the inclinations I choose in obedience to ‘ Be aware ’ tend to be self-centred , even if they do not quite fulfil the requirements of a pure philosophical egoism ? |
| 6 | I was happy because I was now ‘ on the inside ’ , doing war-work and feeling , for the first time , that we were really a partnership ; and I was proud that I had grown more confident , and mature enough to take Leslie as he was , and no longer demanded — as he had once said that I did — that he be the White Knight . |
| 7 | My father was the sweetest man in the world and there was nothing I could fight him for , or do against him , or he against me , because nothing was said that I did n't agree with , or he did n't agree with , because I was a very easy child . |
| 8 | Just do n't let it be said that I did n't warn you , that 's all . ’ |
| 9 | Well I disagree in as much as I have said that I did n't have a shotgun and ignoring that fact then that I did n't have a shotgun she certainly did not make a lunge at me . |
| 10 | And beaming proudly the 47-year-old superstar declared at London 's Heathrow airport : ‘ Never let it be said that I do n't carry the baby . ’ |
| 11 | I I I 've already said that I do n't accept that er the French are unlikely to ratify er I think rather the contrary but that remains finally for them er and not for me . |
| 12 | ‘ In any case , I 've already said that I do n't want to fight any more with anybody . |
| 13 | He probably could have argued that I do n't belong in these clubs either , because I have n't got a soul/funk background . |
| 14 | I was so cowed that I did n't even say who I was ; I pretended to be her . |
| 15 | You know , I 've been told that I do n't like women . |
| 16 | As I say , I ca n't remember anything , but I 'm told that I did seem to enjoy annoying Old Saul , the bandy-legged and ancient white bulldog my father kept — I 'm told — because it was so ugly and it did n't like women . |
| 17 | No one really bothered that I did n't get any letters or visits . |
| 18 | It was because I had my blinds closed that I did n't get hurt . ’ |
| 19 | This does not mean that I do not believe in the existence of genuine déjà vu experiences — indeed I have already shown that I do . |
| 20 | Years later she told me that she had regretted that I did not include some of his mother 's receipts in my life of Cavafy . |
| 21 | The taxi driver speaks no English and I spend a fraught moment or two wondering whether he has understood that I do n't want to go to Keflavik , but after the shorter tour of Reykjavik we arrive . |
| 22 | I want it to be clearly understood that I do not in any way mean to suggest there is any question of prevarication when I say that as to the prospect for the future there is essentially a difference between what the plaintiff 's parents said in their statements made as recently as the twenty eighth of October of this year and what they said in their evidence about their attitude to future care . |
| 23 | It wo n't be difficult then for me to let it be known that I do n't want you working here . ’ |
| 24 | I have a reputation for honesty and fair trading — and it 's well known that I do n't have any truck with shady deals , ’ she informed him bluntly . |
| 25 | I was very open-minded towards drugs then and I would try anything that was going provided that I did n't think it was too dangerous … and I did like to analyse the thing , the substances , through literature . |
| 26 | I was so bruised and exhausted that I did not feel strong enough to walk home , and although I did not want to , I had to spend the night at Wuthering Heights . |
| 27 | I kept talking to his mother and the girl at the cash-register , but I was so distracted that I did n't know what I was saying . |
| 28 | For example , by the third sub-maxim of Manner ( " be brief " ) , wherever I avoid some simple expression in favour of some more complex paraphrase , it may be assumed that I do not do so wantonly , but because the details are somehow relevant to the present enterprise . |
| 29 | How often declared that I did not think I could possibly deserve my Pamela till I could show her a purity as nearly equal to hers . |
| 30 | Well , since God has decreed that I do n't die just yet , I look forward to getting to know you better . ’ |