Example sentences of "but i do [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately it was received too late to go through the formal council procedure , but I do hope that you allow me to hand it to the council secretary later who it is addressed to . |
| 2 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 3 | There is obviously an ambitious streak in me but I do realise that I am still very young and inexperienced . |
| 4 | My canoeing skills , newly acquired , were not tested in Canadians , helmed by a guide , and I am disappointed but as I did n't acquire my elementary skills until I was a 61 year old female I 'm not complaining but I do complain that I 'm quite unable to find a suitable canoe companion now I 'm on my own . |
| 5 | I do not take this view , but I do think that there are certain deep assumptions about how the mind-body problem should be addressed which increase its difficulty . |
| 6 | But I do think that we are becoming more involved in the Livesey affair than our legitimate interest justifies . |
| 7 | I have never subscribed to the view that schooldays are the happiest days of your life , but I do think that student days are among the happiest . |
| 8 | I know that a lot of youngsters gain their first experience of shooting with bolting rabbits but I do think that so much preparatory work is necessary to create the opportunity for the rabbits to be killed that the chance must not be missed . |
| 9 | It is perfectly possible to catch rabbits while ferreting with snow lying on the ground , but I do think that snow makes long-netting impossible as the net becomes clogged , wet and inoperable . |
| 10 | I AM not a religious person , but I do think that if Jesus was around today he 'd be horrified by the way we celebrate his birth . |
| 11 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 12 | But I do think that what he 's doing is something truly wonderful — and quite different . |
| 13 | Now , I do not seek to defend the conduct of the Sun , but I do think that it is at best messy and may also be dangerous to use the common law to outflank the Act . |
| 14 | ‘ But I do think that someone of authority should go into the forest and approach the Tree Spirits . ’ |
| 15 | I know that the rules for feature-page articles are different from those for reviews , but I do think that Alan Clark , who was given large space on the Times ’ main feature page , could have got around to mentioning the book from which he had taken the material for his strictures of Churchill before his last two paragraphs : ‘ And yet , so docile and leader-oriented is the Conservative Party [ Whoops ! |
| 16 | I do n't think that 's strictly true but I do think that the discussion we 've heard so far er has fully justified erm the the raising of some fundamental questions about the the the the method of projections . |
| 17 | Erm , having been told that the County Council were running the meeting , I did find it a little difficult to chair , but I do think that we 've come out of it with some constructive ideas . |
| 18 | Clearly , I do n't want to see us having just an open ended thing , that every time they get into trouble , we bail them out , but I do think that we need to give breathing space now , until we can come with a , a , a decent set of proposals for the future of the building . |
| 19 | Thank you Chairman , I I can note that remark , but I do think that we do have to defend the position a little on environmental issues . |
| 20 | But I do think that the district auditor is beginning to be presented as a bogie man erm , waved in the faces of people in rural areas , as a sort of threat that even if the council does n't want to close your school , it might , and I think that probably is n't a very proper use of the district auditor 's image , nor of his report , and I think perhaps some direct contact with him , er to show what progress we 're making , paragraph by paragraph , and what we think of that report from December ninety-one , probably needs to be made . |
| 21 | I mean , I do think we need to er recognise that tremendous efforts are being put in by the individuals employed by the D S Os , but I do think that we need to recognise also , that there is a lot lacking in the , particularly the marketing of the services . |
| 22 | ‘ But I do think that , for most people , ensuring your vehicle has sufficient petrol before you embark on a journey is a sensible precaution . ’ |
| 23 | But I do think that we need to recognise this on council that there is a cost associated with that one point four million pounds worth of savings and those costs come in two different directions . |
| 24 | I do n't believe in national character in any biological sense , but I do think that the German people were ready for a person like Hitler . |
| 25 | Now , I 'm not going to go into a discussion about Dickens ' view of women , which was fairly peculiar , but I do think that the popular feeling of the times was very much inclined towards the ‘ Little Dorrits ’ . |
| 26 | We have an excellent reputation in Oxfordshire as an Education Authority erm and a reputation which extends around the country , so I do see it as a vote of confidence , and I am very pleased about it , but I do think that the whole exercise was somewhat premature in the light of the erm research and investigation that was going on into the tertiary college , and indeed the consulting process actually ran through at the same time as the campaign was running on whether the Banbury School should opt out , and erm regrettably I think has lost something as a result of having the two run together . |
| 27 | You can pick fault with anything if you try hard enough , but I do think that the policies that we offer erm are very good and very reasonable . |
| 28 | erm But I do think that women need to have much more of a sense of their own power , or at least of the fact that they 're not as powerless as they think of themselves as being , and so they can say when the tutor puts his hand on their knee or something like that ‘ I 'm sorry , would you take your hand away , that 's not part of our relationship ’ or something that just so they do n't have to feel so bad about it . |
| 29 | There was a man , totally unconnected with the event I think , running away from a flaming van in Horseguards Parade erm and it was a wonderful picture opportunity for the world 's press to carry , but I do think that memories are short from this . |
| 30 | We should n't understate the effect , but I do think that memories are fairly short . |