Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] i do " in BNC.
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| 1 | How very difficult it was to accept that I did need it and to show that I needed it . |
| 2 | Well I 'll have to accept that I do n't know where that came from but I 've got down here state 's interest |
| 3 | It probably would n't surprise you to know that I do , too . |
| 4 | Both Poutsma ( 1923 : 42 ) and Jesperson ( 1940 : 287 ) point out that have is often used with the to infinitive in conditional contexts with would : ( 178 ) I 'd have you to know that I do n't care a penny , madam , for your paltry money . |
| 5 | He does , he said I just want you all out there to know that I do love Patsy . |
| 6 | Would be a , be quite a few calls , but we 'll just maybe have to try and I do n't know what we 'll do . |
| 7 | ‘ I would n't want anyone to suffer like I did . ’ |
| 8 | And you want to know whether I did ? |
| 9 | I 've tried it sometimes , never long enough to know whether I did it successfully or not , but I found there is absolutely no way of telling because even if it changes in a way one can predict , what one can predict is the way oneself changes or the world changes at the same time . |
| 10 | I desire the reader to remember that I do not make use of the word people for the mere vulgar or mobile , but for the whole community , consisting of clergy , nobility and commons … |
| 11 | I was the first of my family and of our group of friends to split and I did n't get a whole lot of sympathy . |
| 12 | 'I 'd tell you the whole bitter story , but you do n't have the time to listen and I do n't have the patience to explain . |
| 13 | Maybe I 'm a bit young to remember but I do n't recall those two playing for Leeds at any time ! |
| 14 | But that 's peanuts compared with what I stand to lose if I do n't get Seawitch to Athens by the fourth . ’ |
| 15 | get myself something to wear if I do n't hurry up and if I do n't hurry up and get something . |
| 16 | then you have got to wait until I do that . |
| 17 | Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father . |
| 18 | So I went out to play like I do for Liverpool . ’ |
| 19 | He come in , he 's fucking right as rain me come in oh I 'm feeling right got in , sat here for about half an hour quick mad dash , chucked at the fucking shit house murghhh ! the fucking well I wo n't be able to play cos I do n't |
| 20 | I played to win and I did . |
| 21 | I did not threaten to resign but I did make it clear that I would not endorse changes I could not justify . |
| 22 | Yes , this is what I 've been trying to avoid because I do n't want the bother of advertising and interviewing somebody else . |
| 23 | It seems to me that all of us in this chamber have at one time or another , wanted to actually spend money erm it comes programme of committees , I do n't think it 's behoved upon me at the moment to transgress on what programme committees are actually er but to predict exactly where they will want their expenditure to go but I do know is that there is a huge backlog of member generated aspirations in terms of the environmental improvements , traffic calming facilities , particulary which I suspect were actually generated mildly in excess of the figures which we have before us tonight which is why we clearly leave open that further bids against capital can be made in the course of the next three years , erm which will be assessed against the overall financial position of the council and I think the council much more than that . |
| 24 | I 'm tempted to go but I do n't want to for the fool I 'll make out of myself . |
| 25 | Marie yelled after me to wait but I did n't want to talk to her about it so I chucked my sandwich-box over to her and told her she could eat them for me . |
| 26 | I wanted to object but I did not know how to do so . |
| 27 | Me , I do n't speak clothes language at all and am beginning to wish that I did . |
| 28 | War 's been declared and all you can think about , all you can talk about is what you 're going to do if I do n't stop seeing Carrie . ’ |
| 29 | They first of all say they want local government to be more responsible , to be more trusted , to have more freedom , I then give them that freedom and then they complain that I 'm not telling local government what to do and I do n't intend to lay down every detail of what they should do . |
| 30 | I 've been offered the opportunity by er Bob in training er in force have taken this on er the tactical unit have taken it on , the chance of er one day erm assessment or appraisal training , at erm probably at Exeter for those of us that do it and erm I think that perhaps with the the way that the diverse way that our staff 's spread out the proper ways of assessing people which I 've I 've never been shown how to do and I do n't think many of us have . |