Example sentences of "do [pron] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So excavation was done I I 'll keep this short because it 's cold out here , you see why we need the cloaks . |
| 2 | Yes Ellen what can I do I I 'll tell you . |
| 3 | She was so good , yet there were so many things she did n't do which I would have thought she would have . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've done everything I can possibly think of now , so going on the run is my protest . |
| 5 | Ms Ogata , speaking in Nairobi , said : ‘ I have done everything I can to persuade leaders to distinguish humanitarian aid from the conflict , but they have not allowed us to carry out our mandate . ’ |
| 6 | Having not done one I would n't know how they go about it even |
| 7 | ‘ I could not help recalling , ’ Sir Maurice Hankey , the Cabinet Secretary , wrote in his diary in September , ‘ that on the last day of Parliament Mr. Baldwin had walked across the yard outside [ the House of Commons ] and had said ‘ I will do everything I can to help the Government in making economies , but I will not enter a Coalition Government . ' |
| 8 | I promise I 'll do everything I can to help the rest of you — ‘ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll do everything I can , ’ she said , freeing herself . |
| 10 | This year has been the most difficult and disturbing of my 40-year reign , but it has brought home to me that I must do everything I can to continue to carry out that duty . |
| 11 | It will take a while , I 'm afraid , but I 'll do everything I can to persuade the family that they should meet you . ’ |
| 12 | Here , his unequivocal response to Mrs Hollar 's pleas — " Mrs Hollar , I will do everything I can for him " ( p. 82 ) — is made more emphatic by the fact that he interrupts her in order to say it , and its effect is to affirm his commitment to help at the expense of any considerations for his negative face , a change in priorities which is central to the development in Anderson 's character . |
| 13 | Kernaghan , who has actually won schoolboy caps for Northern Ireland added : ‘ I 've been given a big chance now to book my ticket for the World Cup finals in America and I 'll do everything I can to take it . ’ |
| 14 | Since then I have done something I should have done in the first place : found a gap in the rushes only ten yards downstream where I can heave into the fish without pulling them into more weed . |
| 15 | " Oh , all right , if you 've done it I might as well sign it . |
| 16 | say if you 'd done it I could have took it for you tomorrow or the next day . |
| 17 | I ca n't do it I sha n't be here this week I 'll be in Belgium . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll do it I 'll do it I 'll do it — they ca n't I wo n't let them I wo n't let … 'S hiding he 's hiding he 's hiding … only comes out for me … 'S crying , he 's crying inside … ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll do it I 'll do it I 'll do it — they ca n't I wo n't let them I wo n't let … 'S hiding he 's hiding he 's hiding … only comes out for me … 'S crying , he 's crying inside … ’ |
| 20 | I 'll ha I 'll do it I 'll I 'll made the shepherds pie . |
| 21 | Stand up yeah be over in a minute I 'll do it I 'll |
| 22 | I 've got ta be catched I wo n't actually do it I 'll just come in run a mo just give it complete customers and and help |
| 23 | Well I see , if he 's gon na do it I 'll phone him up and . |
| 24 | No , I wo n't do it then I 'll do it I 'll do it in the early evening when no one 's too drunk . |
| 25 | Because if so I 'll beat the hide off him , I 've told him so , he 's not too big to be beaten and if Monsieur Martin wo n't do it I will . |
| 26 | but because I know you can do it I can say you another one to one conversation with you about it , but basically you 're no way near to guide the customer you 're in there to sell the customer |
| 27 | You have spent most of your day sitting in your office while I , from seven o'clock this morning until ten tonight , have been at the beck and call of two old women ; I have seen to the needs of my child , and in between times I have cooked the meals and done whatever I could towards keeping this mausoleum clean . ’ |
| 28 | Had she been asked that minute what her exact feelings were , she might have said , I have done what I can for Andrée , if she 's going to blow cold again , if she does n't want to see me any more , vogue la galère , I shall have to survive , I shall . |
| 29 | Well , I had done what I could to protect the new catapult and , while I was sorry that what had happened at the Rabbit Grounds had cost me a trusted weapon with many battle honours to its name ( not to mention a significant sum out of the Defence budget ) , I thought that maybe what had happened had been for the best . |
| 30 | But you can do what I ca n't do , I can do what you ca n't do . |