Example sentences of "i [vb mod] do [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Even though I 've got the option of not doing it , I do n't really feel I could not do it , because I feel I ought to do it . |
2 | JEWKES : He is my master and if he bids me do anything I can do I think I ought to do it and let him who has power to command me look to the lawfulness of it . |
3 | I must do them now and then it 's out of the way cos you and I want to see Emmerdale at seven . |
4 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
5 | ‘ If there 's any chance of being selected I must do it . |
6 | I knew it was n't going to be easy , as it was so very much his world , but I realized I must do it soon , because the longer I delayed , the longer I felt I would go on doing so — like facing up to the ashes . |
7 | I was as a man who was pulling down his house upon the head of his wife and children , yet thought I , I must do it , I must do it . ’ |
8 | I was as a man who was pulling down his house upon the head of his wife and children , yet thought I , I must do it , I must do it . ’ |
9 | I 'm sorry but … but I must do it . ’ |
10 | As such , I will realize that I must do it , whether I wish to or not . |
11 | I must do it now . |
12 | But I must do it . |
13 | So he thinks I should do you because he despises me , too , and he thinks I 'm God 's scum . |
14 | And so I should do you because you shave under your armpits and maybe you would have a baby and that would spite your father . ’ |
15 | Were n't , although erm I was told that my father died of that so that er , I should do you mind |
16 | I asked how he thought I should do it and he said buy a tenoner . |
17 | And he once passed on to BitC an invitation he had received requesting him and the Princess to open the conference of a Brent Women 's Association , with a note saying , ‘ Do you think I should do it ? |
18 | I usually follow fashion very slowly and creep in just as it starts to look dated , but then I think that 's the way I should do it . |
19 | that 's why I was an A&R man for a while , trying to tell other people what to do without realising I should do it myself . ’ |
20 | Er maybe I should do it on graph paper . |
21 | And it does n't appeal to me but I know that I should do it . |
22 | ‘ Are you suggesting that I should do it for you ? ’ she queried sweetly . |
23 | I should do it . |
24 | she thinks I should do it , you know |
25 | And then I should do it in an hour . |
26 | Do you think I should do it here or just put it |
27 | ‘ You 're not seriously suggesting I might do her some harm ? ’ |
28 | I du n no I might do I might |
29 | Jean has n't much time — and I think I might do it quite well . ’ |
30 | OK , I knew I was better than anyone in my school , but it never occurred to me that I might do it as a profession . ’ |