Example sentences of "[pron] do [verb] is [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I do stress is that the judge should approach the exercise of the discretion with a predilection to give effect to the child 's wishes on the basis that prima facie that will be in his or her best interests . |
| 2 | What I do mean is that although most women do hope for a happy and loving relationship with their husbands , the attainment of this is not the purpose of marriage . |
| 3 | What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police . |
| 4 | WHAT I do know is that people like Havel have been getting a little impatient with those relishing pieces appearing lately in the American press that say , roughly : ‘ Right , you guys over there have had your romantic Ruritanian fun and games with revolution and dancing in the streets . |
| 5 | I do n't know what my future style will be but the one thing I do know is that I will keep on changing . ’ |
| 6 | The only thing I do know is that something must be done to get her away from here … anywhere . ’ |
| 7 | What I do know is that , faced with cancer , the desire for solitude was somewhat tempered . |
| 8 | What I do know is that we owe a great debt to these doughty fighters of the past in banishing the menace of the Krooms for ever from this green and pleasant land . |
| 9 | What my source was up to , I have no idea ; all I do know is that while the world was waiting to discover how Mrs Thatcher was ever going to be toppled , the most unlikely possibility was that she might admit she had been wrong about something and ask for her P45 without more ado . |
| 10 | What I do know is that The Da completely missed the point , as usual . |
| 11 | What I do know is that whatever Mario says ( ‘ I do n't think he was too unhappy about it ’ ) or Colin thought ( ‘ The atmosphere within the team was the happiest I can remember ’ ) , that was not the way Ronnie saw it . |
| 12 | ‘ What I do know is that the scale of success we could be embarking upon far out-strips anything I experienced at Liverpool . |
| 13 | All I do know is that it truly happened . ’ |
| 14 | All I do know is that we 're very conscious a great deal of money 's been spent by the Council and by the Trust to try and make the place outside more inviting those tubs been put there er they been planted etc there 's a lot of litter there we 've put litter bins there there 's taxi rank there there 's lot 's of things been put there I think the problem is it is n't the people who do that I mean it 's the people who actually do the litter and it 's quite clear that we do go out we do tidy up but it happens and it 's a case of balance of what we can do and what you ca n't do but we do work at it I can assure you . |
| 15 | All I do know is that it seems someone here does believe that they still have an influence . ’ |
| 16 | What I do know is that all you people are here because the Fascists have given the list of your names to our headquarters . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ All I do know is that others who approached me were warned off . |
| 18 | ‘ All I do know is that when we were on the way here he was asking me a great many questions about what went on in the village . |
| 19 | What I do know is that there are thousands and thousands of people out there for whom life is intolerable , roughly ten a day actually succeed in killing themselves , how many more have a go we do n't know . |
| 20 | It seems to me that all of us in this chamber have at one time or another , wanted to actually spend money erm it comes programme of committees , I do n't think it 's behoved upon me at the moment to transgress on what programme committees are actually er but to predict exactly where they will want their expenditure to go but I do know is that there is a huge backlog of member generated aspirations in terms of the environmental improvements , traffic calming facilities , particulary which I suspect were actually generated mildly in excess of the figures which we have before us tonight which is why we clearly leave open that further bids against capital can be made in the course of the next three years , erm which will be assessed against the overall financial position of the council and I think the council much more than that . |
| 21 | ‘ The one thing I do know is that he will be at the inquest . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ The one thing I do know is that he will be at the inquest into the death of L/Cpl Edwards . |
| 23 | He 's obviously an unfortunate athlete like Steve Cram , but the one thing I do know is that he is the best friend any vet could have ! |
| 24 | ‘ However , ’ Corbett continued , clasping his sword belt around his waist , ‘ one thing I do remember is that the preacher was really a gentle man ; he told my mother that Holy Mother Church merely wished to frighten its children except — ’ Corbett narrowed his eyes and looked through the doorway ‘ — for murderers , those who slay , especially the sons of Cain who plot with ice-cold malice the destruction of someone they hate . ’ |
| 25 | What I do understand is that if the master 's not home for the party tomorrow , the mistress wo n't be pleased — and that 's putting it mildly . |
| 26 | " I do n't pretend that medical science has yet found a method of treating cholera that 's quite satisfactory , I do n't say there is n't room for improvement , ladies and gentlemen … but what I do say is that it 's the duty of a member of the medical profession to use the best available treatment known and accepted by his fellow physicians ! |
| 27 | What I do recall is that we drank beer which Eliot , like George Saintsbury , regarded as having certain virtues , especially at lunch-time , which wine did not possess . |
| 28 | What I did say is that there are differences in emotional expression between people in different countries , just as much as |
| 29 | What you do know is that it has caused you considerable hurt and pain . |
| 30 | I do n't know , Bill , the major problem that we do find is that the gipsies produce the most emotive response of any matter which we talk about on the County Council . |