Example sentences of "[verb] to do [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says it 's somthing to do and he probably will get injured . |
| 2 | In other words , you must have a good plan of what you propose to do and a realistic timetable from the outset . |
| 3 | BELVILLE : [ aside ] To what numberless mean things did not this unmanly passion subject me ? [ to PAMELA ] My sister Davers would have had you live with her , but she would not do for you what I am resolved to do if you continue faithful and obliging . |
| 4 | The student is informed of what she will be expected to do after she has learned the concept . |
| 5 | The maintenance section should indicate what , if anything , the operator is expected to do and the symptoms which indicate that more specialist maintenance skills are required . |
| 6 | But it is nice if they are asked , sometimes it 's sometimes they are just expected to do and if they have n't been officially asked . |
| 7 | and really I did n't need to do that I ought |
| 8 | And what if their occupants were already walking among us , keeping cautiously in the background to avoid notice and suspicion , just as twentieth-century man would need to do if he were thrust into another , and potentially hostile , age . |
| 9 | So they stand cheerfully by the carriage window revealing in loud voices the personal secrets of the wretched traveller , who winces as he realizes that he has to travel two hundred miles with a carriage full of strangers who know his family history , how prone he is to chills if he wears a damp vest , what he has to do when he arrives at his destination . |
| 10 | What one has to do where this conflict is between a welfare aim and a conservation aim is to weigh up all the evidence carefully and decide what is , morally , the right thing to do . |
| 11 | You may also need to supervise the patient , in case he forgets what he has to do and leaves the gas on without lighting it , for example , or without putting the pan of food on the cooker . |
| 12 | In situations of moral dilemma a man must do what he thinks he has to do and moral decisions are involved in his action . |
| 13 | Now , to what extent could one move in that direction using a computer , which is a rather precise and definite sort of object that wants to know exactly what it has to do and how it has to do it ? |
| 14 | As a TO one wants to do as well as one can , and the paradox is that the better one does in a sense the worse it is for the voluntary movement , who should be persuaded to do the maximum rather than the minimum . |
| 15 | Oh well the last thing anyone wants to do when they 're going on a retirement course is to talk about dying . |
| 16 | I have never found anything yet that will stop a squirrel doing precisely what it wants to do when it wants to do it , whatever that is what it wants to do . |
| 17 | Does as it wants to do when it goes outside rather than inside . |
| 18 | Ooh he , he 's m mind you he , he reckons that 's what he wants to do when he 's older but I mean the life , or the career of anybody in computers is not very long is it ? |
| 19 | You say he is clever , clever enough to know what he wants to do and what makes him satisfied . |
| 20 | Trying out new materials depends on what the artist wants to do and how the medium can be used to advantage ; at the same time it would be foolish to try to fit a new tool exactly into your pattern of work and thus limit it . |
| 21 | I want to see er the this rubbish dump but this is n't the time to do it and as the Conservatives said , we should wait on er to see what the Council er wants to do and I take that on board . |
| 22 | And my aunt said , Well I would prefer her to if that 's what she wants to do and she 's gon na learn something that might be a benefit to her later on in life . |
| 23 | she knows what she wants to do and what she should do , but she just ca n't |
| 24 | bores him , but he wo n't and then it pulls me , I want to do what the majority wants to do and then he do n't and I feel guilty cos I think oh I should be with him , but |
| 25 | In fact he was identifying himself with his Girondin friends who were guillotined by the Jacobins in October and November 1793 ; although the story that Wordsworth visited France at this time to take help to the Girondins may be untrue , this is clearly what he would have wished to do if an opportunity had arisen . |
| 26 | In early 81 , it tried to do for Oi what the New Musical Express had done for early punk , acting as midwife , prefect and publicist for a grassroots rock movement with political overtones . |
| 27 | ‘ Is n't that what the Time Lords tried to do and failed , ’ Blake replied . |
| 28 | Yeah tried to do and they obviously ca n't . |
| 29 | African-Americans in South Central mostly hate Korean store owners and there 's no getting around the fact , as Jesse Jackson tried to do when he said the assaults on Koreans were not racist . |
| 30 | It was precisely this that John , duke of Bedford , the elder of Henry V 's surviving brothers , tried to do when he became regent of France on the death of the king . |