Example sentences of "i [vb mod] do [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think what you and I ought to do is sit down we ought to list the pros and cons and problems of and look at them afresh and then maybe talk to Tom anyway . |
| 2 | What I must do is get to know the people over a few hours or days and find out what they 're trying to do , what their activities are , whether they have children or pets . |
| 3 | ‘ First thing I must do is to sell the emeralds I inherited from my mother , they will bring me in enough to buy in leather and begin to trade again . ’ |
| 4 | I went past this woman 's door , her name was Emily , and it was like I was passing a huge vulva , so big it has a desk inside , and I decided that what I should do is make an actual photocopy of my dick , in fact two copies , one before coming , one after , and leave these , along with an asterisk memo , on her desk . ’ |
| 5 | What I should do is take the first one tonight . |
| 6 | There 's your job the first thing I should do is say well what are the key tasks , what are the areas that would mean results ? |
| 7 | What I might do is steal credit cards and use them . |
| 8 | Or what I might do is make a couple of these up but fill them out a bit more . |
| 9 | Well what I might do is just put one soap in each cos it |
| 10 | What I might do is go back to Marks . |
| 11 | But I think possibly what I might do is try and make this grape vine one the first one where we actually do do it properly . |
| 12 | he 's retired , but he 's , he 's been quite busy with this Festival , but I , I said to him , now what I 'll do is maybe come and you and him and Jane maybe kind of will just sort of have a quick confab sometime just talk about what he wants , and he will be kind of happy to do that with obviously we 'd have to find a drop of money to pay for the tapes , I mean that would n't be huge and expensive . |
| 13 | Right , well what I 'll do is , if you like , that 's it this is the erm , erm Linda |
| 14 | Position positional isomers branch chain functional group and there 's one other odd one which has a very peculiar name and the name it normally goes by is a fairly old name , now I 'm not sure at this stage if that name is still used but what I 'll do is to describe the form of the isomerism first and let you decide what you would prefer to call it . |
| 15 | I mean what I 'll do is I 'll come and sit down with each of you and and we 'll |
| 16 | They they 're summarized here and what I 'll do is we 'll get photocopies off these before team brief . |
| 17 | Actually what I 'll do is wait until the Autumn , take a big stick , but send Andy up there and knock them in the bag . |
| 18 | Erm so erm what I 'll do is just indicate the amounts as they stand . |
| 19 | in another few weeks hard work and you 'll feel very What I 'll do is if I give you a note for a further two months , and we can Is your job safe ? |
| 20 | Well I , I ca n't really do much about that tonight but if , if you can leave that with me , what I 'll do is I 'll have a word with er |
| 21 | ‘ So what I 'll do is , I 'll chop bits off , ’ agreed the wizard . |
| 22 | What I 'll do is I 'll read you the first paragraph of rule six and actually bend the rule and put those words in and it really does n't make any sense at all , so listen carefully on this one and do n't be surprised if you do n't understand me . |
| 23 | . What I 'll do is that I 'll final of action shortly and I 'll tu |
| 24 | Good , okay well let's take some details from you and what I 'll do is I 'll register your details onto our mailing list so that erm , anything that 's coming onto the market you 'll get a phone call on straight away to let you know but also I 'll then check and see what we 've got that might suit your requirements at the moment . |
| 25 | Right , well as I say I 've got your details here so what I 'll do is if you bear with me I 'll go and a have a look through the drawers and see what we 've got available . |
| 26 | Well what I 'll do is I 'll stick it in my diary for a couple of weeks . |
| 27 | What I 'll do is give you a system whereby even at the drop of a hat you will be able to put together a few words and speak with clarity , speak coherently and be able to put your point of view across . |
| 28 | What I 'll do is I 'll try another straw poll at the end of the seven lectures and see how we feel then to see if we 've erm we 've shifted , so I think there it was about , I 'm guessing , sixty five thirty five in favour of Maastricht . |
| 29 | Erm , what we 're gon na do now is look at some number crunching and what I 'll do is give you Pearson 's erm formula for calculating the correlation coefficient . |
| 30 | What I 'll do is arrange to show the video for the seminar in case you have n't got any questions , yeah ? |