Example sentences of "[pers pn] know best " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can now concentrate on getting back into commercial brewing and doing what I know best — making fine , traditional Yorkshire ales , ’ says Theakston , who has set up his new business next door to T&R Theakston and expects to be making 12,500 barrels a year by 1995 . |
| 2 | The area of Washington I know best lies around Dupont Circle , its streets now ablaze with pink , purple and white azaleas , the pavement cafes now opening up , and where for the past two decades the left think tank , the Institute for Policy Studies , has been loc-ated . |
| 3 | I shall therefore only attempt to generalise about those parts of the world which I know best , and I shall be ruthless in the selection of my facts . |
| 4 | Such doubts exist in Yorkshire and Humberside , which I know best , and in other northern and western areas . |
| 5 | Although I am sure that these remarks will apply to all constituencies in the north of Ireland , I can judge only what is happening in the one that I know best , which is my own , where 3,344 houses have been deemed ’ unfit ’ , as the Minister confirmed to me in a written answer in 1988 . |
| 6 | Well I can only really , I suppose , talk from the point of view of Britain and Spain , which is the European country I know best . |
| 7 | ‘ What do you know best ? ’ she asked , slipping her arm round Beth 's slim waist as the two of them sauntered to the door . |
| 8 | ‘ You know best about that . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You know best , ’ Kitty Bouverie said , fidgeting the flowers she was arranging . |
| 10 | ‘ I agree to the conditions , Angel , because you know best . |
| 11 | ‘ All right , Ellie , I expect you know best . |
| 12 | So for success in the seventy fifth I say to any volunteer who asks me , do what you always do , stick to your tried and tested methods because that 's what you know best . |
| 13 | She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay . |
| 14 | She was going to stay in her profession and concentrate her energies on what she knew best . |
| 15 | She merely revealed herself for what she was : a cloistered innocent , lacking the fashionable touch , too earnest by half in her endeavours to persuade a jaded world that she knew best . |
| 16 | On present form , ’ he said , his voice warming wearily into a semblance of the voice she knew best , ‘ she only pulls people out . ’ |
| 17 | Mummy always thinks she knows best . |
| 18 | She always thinks that she knows best . |
| 19 | Modern architects were to take a savage and unimaginable revenge on the average man for his rejection of their ‘ we know best ’ anti-humanist ethic . |
| 20 | The vehicles that we know best are individual bodies like our own . |
| 21 | We sat round the piano with the candles in front of our music stands and played one of the trios we know best . |
| 22 | This is a whole of a mish-mash , I think we ought to go back to what we did in nineteen ninety two , its the twenty ninth of January and to confer the rights of tenants and other occupiers of land to allow or stop fox hunting or any other hunting over land in their care and least trust some people instead of this business of we know best . |
| 23 | If their opinion differs to mine , I believe that they know best . |
| 24 | They do not encourage verbal give and take , believing that the child should accept unquestioningly that they know best . |
| 25 | When a football career ends and reality tackles back , many footballers are attracted like a magnet to the world they know best . |
| 26 | From eight months onwards they are likely to protest loudly about being passed around , and cling to the person they know best . |
| 27 | There is a tendency for church planting groups to assume they know best what is liturgically best for that area and , sometimes , out of the window goes any recognizable Anglican liturgy with the incumbent who , unrobed and in open-necked shirt , introduces the choruses in front of the now universal overhead projector … |
| 28 | The politicians do n't want to listen to the nation 's voice because they believe they know best and are scared that the people will vote against . |
| 29 | Now that is n't easy actually , because you know , the practitioner 's think they know best and they actually quite resent , you know , the young Policy Officer 's coming in and saying let's do it this way , shall we ? |
| 30 | Few can afford to compete everywhere , and many have chosen to concentrate on those businesses and markets they know best . |