Example sentences of "[pron] do tend " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do tend to react to what people say , which was fortunately always favourable , so that gave me something to aim at . |
| 2 | There are traps you can fall into if you do too much television — although I 've been on a lot since '89 , I do tend to turn most things down . |
| 3 | Whilst I do tend to agree with his observations about the pricing of some main line steam tours , I find his comments about ‘ no free rides for support crews ’ almost unbelievable . |
| 4 | I must admit that , like this lady , I do tend to say ‘ NO ’ to ERASE . |
| 5 | Now I , I do tend to do everything in pencil , particularly appointments . |
| 6 | So I do tend to write everything in pencil . |
| 7 | Also many LDCs have large state sectors , i.e. government ownership of industrial corporations , which do tend to be wasteful and inefficient , thereby resulting in a mis-use of scarce economic resources . |
| 8 | Yes , there is actually , I mean some of these wide runners who do tend to feel the ground erm when it 's top of the ground . |
| 9 | All this did , of course , cost money , but if you 've had even a comparatively small amount of that and then lost it , you do tend to realize how transient the whole thing is and not worry so much about getting it back again . |
| 10 | Back in time for our encore at Wembley ( well , after six nights , you do tend to get a bit lax , and anyway , the tapes went on in the right order and the dry ice was great ) . |
| 11 | ‘ You do tend to get thugs looking for a fight trying to join up for my classes , that 's why you have to be very selective . ’ |
| 12 | It 's , it 's not , perhaps it 's no accident er maybe those or other factors that you do tend the lowest turn outs in metropolitan districts the big city districts . |
| 13 | And the point is that wherever you go you tend to keep your eye open and not wait for something to crop up ; you do tend to say ‘ 'Ello , ‘ ello , ‘ ello , What 's this ? |
| 14 | You do tend to rush into things . |
| 15 | Have n't you two grown ’ Well , you know you do tend to grow slightly between the ages of 8 and 16 , or 14 and 22 as in my brother 's case . |
| 16 | Erm Eric in , in Manchester from where he comes is extremely well known obviously within the G M B but his record he 's one of the individuals in the trade union movement that I think are becoming somewhat of a rarity these days I know that many of us when we first started in the movement were very easily able , and , and very relaxed about combining trade union and political activities together but of course as time goes on and , you do tend to become more involved in the one and the other , because of course it 's all time-consuming but I can honestly say that in Eric 's case he 's never deviated one iota from his commitment both to the trade union , this union in particular , and to the Party never deviated at all . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It 's , you tend , to start with you do tend to erm |
| 19 | Mind you when you think of it like that when you when you say that you 've got no mortgage and your kids grow up they do n't need your money and that and if you 're both in good jobs it is you do tend to think to yourself well at least lot lot longer than . |
| 20 | You do tend to skip by if there 's another one that you think oh well |
| 21 | But when you get er to a certain I think you do tend to find a lot of the dressier clothes are in black . |
| 22 | erm Magistrates only send people to prison because they feel the circumstances of the case justify it and erm I think in the public mind erm the criticism is more often the reverse , that Magistrates are too soft , and I 've heard Lord Hailsham say more than once that if we do pay a price for the lay magistrate system it is leniency because what happens , and the difference between the lay magistrate system and the stipendiary system or the Crown Court system is that Magistrates do sit in threes , and what that tends to do is lead to compromises in sentence because discussion between three people irons out extreme views and you do tend to end up with a very well considered compromise view , which probably does tend to be more lenient than a sentence imposed by any one person who might himself take a very serious view of the circumstances . |
| 23 | It also it is a fact that the people that you do tend to lend the equipment out to take it for granted that you are also a highly qualified video sort of technician and if anything goes wrong , they ring you up and say ‘ What plug goes where , and why is n't this working ’ and why should you if you 're working run down to some conference in the John Hall Room and try and sort out something for these people . |
| 24 | The other question is : if we do tend to think in oppositions , is this an innate tendency or a learned one ? |
| 25 | It is true also that we do tend to play above ourselves . |
| 26 | We do tend to see liberalism and nationalism parting company . |
| 27 | We do tend to try and remember odd words , because of their oddity . |
| 28 | Er on a slightly bigger scale entertainment again as we 're only a small college , we do tend to liaise with the bigger education establishment in the city , I E Birmingham University , Central England University formerly Birmingham Polytechnic and Aston University . |
| 29 | ‘ Never mind , Ellie , but you must understand that what with one thing and another we do tend to jump to conclusions — not always the most obvious . ’ |
| 30 | Because there are so many English folk now in every community and we do tend to sort of doctor up the language a bit you know when we talk to them . |