Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we shall see in the next chapter , there are those who believe that management have often adopted forms of work organisation which give rise to unsatisfying jobs because it is cheaper for them so to do . |
| 2 | Whilst in many cases firms with more than 20 partners will for reasons of publicity wish to set out their names on the firm 's documentation , there is no compulsion for them so to do ( and beyond a certain number it obviously becomes impracticable ) . |
| 3 | Even so , I thought on occasion there had been a loss ; nothing necessarily to do with oxygen starvation but just as a result of the experience , the shock of his cold journey , slipping away beneath the grey lid of ice ( and perhaps , I told myself in later years , it was only a loss of ignorance , a loss of folly , and so no bad thing ) . |
| 4 | We 'll have to get someone in to do the cooking . ’ |
| 5 | Get someone in to do the cooking ? |
| 6 | Well mum will be doing , mum 'll be the secretary and then I will have someone in to do it |
| 7 | An injunction is an order directing someone not to do something . |
| 8 | She had now grown quite used to Betty who had , on the whole , been very patient with her ; and , once accepted , it was restful having someone around to do the cooking and the washing-up . |
| 9 | Before you can take a bearing at all there 's something you have to do , which is what , what am I about to do ? |
| 10 | Preferably you can arrange for someone else to do these jobs for you . |
| 11 | I 've relied on someone else to do the vetting . |
| 12 | The latter can be replaced or ‘ sealed in ’ with gloss paint — get someone else to do this for you if you can , and stay out of the way until the smell of paint has dispersed . |
| 13 | If possible get someone else to do the job . |
| 14 | Some of them are reluctant to ask visiting relatives , who may already be doing shopping for them , to run extra errands , such as taking prescriptions to the chemist or clothes to the launderette or dry cleaners , changing their library books and collecting their pension ; so it is always as well to check to make sure that you are meeting these needs , or arranging for someone else to do so . |
| 15 | What could you stop doing , or devote less time to , or ask someone else to do ? |
| 16 | The challenge that many of us face today is that we have a choice — whether or not we go out to work , how much domestic machinery we use , how much we involve the rest of the family in housework , whether or not we employ someone else to do the cleaning , how many take-away meals are put on the table , and so on . |
| 17 | Primary infringement means that someone has copied your work and made such copies public , or has authorised someone else to do this . |
| 18 | The secret of good management is , never put off until tomorrow what you can get someone else to do today , especially if you want it done yesterday . |
| 19 | Until Apple began its marketing initiative there were only two options available ; pay someone else to do all of the job for you or do it all yourself . |
| 20 | The truth was she had n't wanted to be a housewife at all : she had wanted someone else to do the washing and the shopping and the cooking and to mind the child while she breakfasted with clients . |
| 21 | If Joseph wanted Sabine Jourdain dead , as Barbara Coleman says , then he probably got someone else to do it . |
| 22 | I am unrepentant ; perhaps it will encourage someone else to do better . |
| 23 | The , in analysis you do n't get er someone else to do it for you or you do n't get the therapist to play the role of your ego which is really what happens in this suggestion . |
| 24 | A ‘ lady ’ was definable as someone who did no work , hence who ordered someone else to do it , her superiority being established by this relationship . |
| 25 | Do you really think I 'd do that — take money from you for doing one thing , and at the same time take money from someone else to do the opposite ? ’ |
| 26 | What you witnessed that night was Melanie trying to persuade me to perform the operation for her — or , failing that , to get someone else to do it as a favour . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We are quite capable of running our own piggy bank , without asking someone else to do it for us . ’ |
| 28 | We have all come across women who had children by accident , because they thought it was the thing to do , or because they wanted to qualify for Council accommodation , and we have all come across women who expected someone else to do everything for them . |
| 29 | Accordingly either the murderer did this himself or paid someone else to do it . ’ |
| 30 | Well , I reckon so , so I I 've arranged for someone else to do it now . |