Example sentences of "[pron] do [vb infin] one " in BNC.

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1 ‘ No , I can honestly say that the facts are correct : I am thirty-two , I did live for many years in Scotland , and yes , I do head one of the largest investment corporations in the country . ’
2 All that I can honestly say is that after collecting the facts I do decide one way or another , without having any reasons which will satisfy you if you do not share the same standards .
3 I do foresee one or two slight difficulties … ’
4 I do remember one weekend , during the flu outbreak , must have been early April — yes , a girl in prolonged labour , we were all getting worried about her , she nearly lost her baby .
5 In fact I do believe one team was here till about two thirty doing it
6 I do have one or two owners who do what they 're told .
7 Mine does n't have Lace Sensors on it , although I do have one guitar with those on ; my model has pickups just like on the Stevie Ray Vaughan one , and they become a little more powerful as you go towards the bridge .
8 Gillian I suppose I do have one worry about Stuart .
9 Perhaps a new issue of tickets was ordered rather than an alteration to the printed price , although I do have one example of an altered price .
10 erm I do n't make presentations as such but erm I do have one to one discussions with on the sites on what plant they need and stores
11 I do have one seat left in the stalls .
12 I do notice one or two places , though , where Ciccolini departs form the Durand text — e.g. he plays the fourth and sixth quarte of the study in fourths as E and A instead of G and C , and the second quaver in bar 10 of the final ‘ chords ’ study is a G minor chord where G major is printed ( though we get G major in the reprise at 4′18″ ) .
13 Very rarely do we distribute demo 's of commercial games , but as a service to our readers we do make one or two exceptions .
14 We do suggest one small change , to allow an employee 's payment method to be changed at the discretion of his employer , if at the time that he entered that employment , he had agreed to accept that change at some future time ( not necessarily specified ) .
15 The point is that I made a mistake — oh , I do have a feeling for him , that helped to confuse the issue , we do like one another — what I have come to see is that my falling for Lewis was not what I took it to be . ’
16 He admitted : ‘ Seve and I are different personalities but we do have one thing in common — we want to prove we are the best .
17 Against this , it is arguable that one can feel the sense of waiting and subsequent satisfaction only when there is some expected framework , and the framework for language has no obvious parallels with non-linguistic ones ; so we do have one autonomous characteristic of language , even if all the others — equation of two elements , instantiation of one element by another , and so on — are part of the much more general perceptual and conceptual apparatus of human beings .
18 So erm so I ca n't confirm booking for that yet but we do have one more meeting before the big box pile up so not to worry .
19 We 've been talking about the amount of coverage on television and we do have one or two more callers on the same subject , but if you want to broaden the discussion out to other aspects of what 's going on in the Gulf , do feel free .
20 Erm and finally , w we do get one or two smaller items of income from er selling of the maps and erm other items .
21 Although the simplicity of these pavements renders them less informative than many other arrangements they do present one of the clearest pictures in Britain of a uniformity in general design .
22 Well they do feed one another 's you know , it 's called families .
23 While recognising the relative vulnerability of certain groups to poverty , it must be emphasised that they do share one crucial common feature , their social class position .
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