Example sentences of "[pers pn] do [vb infin] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I do appear to be quite successful at is raising money for charity . |
| 2 | I do s-seem to be b-bogged down . ’ |
| 3 | Well , darling , I do want to be In Love . |
| 4 | And , without feeling wildly excited at the prospect , I do want to be governed by Mr Major . |
| 5 | I do want to be with Celtic next season , ’ said Collins . |
| 6 | I do seem to be accepted as part of the regular television establishment . |
| 7 | I do like to be able to pick a fish up by its head , ’ William Black said , waving a sea bass in rigor mortis at me , before going on to inspect its gills . |
| 8 | And I do wish to be left alone . |
| 9 | I 'm a farmer — and if I do happen to be mixed up in other people ’ s extraordinary affairs , it 's no fault of mine . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course , I realise that as far as you 're concerned I ca n't possibly hope to fill my predecessor 's shoes , but I do happen to be very good at my job . ’ |
| 11 | I mean , with Fly-Buttons up there in the ratings , I do have to be a bit careful . ’ |
| 12 | When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes . |
| 13 | After all , you do appear to be massively fertile . ’ |
| 14 | Being only 5′ 2½″ tall myself I too feel very strongly about the unfairness of this , but there is absolutely nothing I can do about it except to warn you that in these circumstances you do need to be very accurate in counting calories in order to achieve a good rate of weight loss . |
| 15 | You do need to be as sharp as possible , because you have to be so quick with your gags . |
| 16 | its , it , the other truck drivers and I have to say that erm to a certain extent you do need to be forceful and positive because er they need a lot of space to manoeuvre on the road and a lot of people who drive cars do n't quite realize how much space they need and if they wo n't give you the space you have to take it . |
| 17 | You do need to be seen next week really . |
| 18 | Firstly , while it goes to great lengths to be friendly and avoid jargon , because it is an American book , you do need to be happy with US slang speech to enjoy it , and sometimes even to understand it , as in ‘ Obtuse code-word sorters divvy those ’ , ‘ Most DOS programs are text-based critters ’ , or ‘ To counter this bad trip , the Windows programmers created a communal work place where all the programs could groove together peacefully ’ . |
| 19 | P.S. Mind you , you do have to be able to on-sight Indian Face with an anvil strapped to your chest to become chairman ! |
| 20 | You do have to be careful , though , because she has no fear . |
| 21 | what other departments feel to your to your people , because wha , you do have to be careful about the indoctrination , this is what I believe so it 's right , we 've got ta we do have to strike a balance . |
| 22 | ‘ You do have to be polite and well-behaved , and loyal to the Royal Family as well , otherwise you could abuse it terribly . ’ |
| 23 | But you do have to be a chemist to do it . |
| 24 | You do NOT need to have had any previous experience of working with mentally handicapped people as training is given , but you do have to be over the age of 21 . |
| 25 | What you do have to be is neat , your labelling is in pen , your drawing is in ? |
| 26 | But you do have to , you do have to be aware of being too clever for your own good , because they only want a translation . |
| 27 | Very much a practical proposition , but I think you do have to be fairly keen and interested . |
| 28 | You do seem to be fortunate in going to Sandgate . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , you do seem to be remarkably interested in my love life . ’ |
| 30 | If you do seem to be walking around a lot during meal preparations try to count the number of times you walk to various work areas and even the number of steps you take . |