Example sentences of "[pers pn] to do [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Oh , Mother o' God , what have ye to do wit' any of this ? ’ |
2 | No okay because it 's as I was saying usually between sort of round about the middle of the day there 's people knocking on the door all the time so if you can sort of get sort of earlier or later it 's we 're likely to have a y'know half an hour when I can show you to do S P S S on it . |
3 | Hurry up then love I want you to do spellings . |
4 | I want to ask you to do thought you , content , based on that . |
5 | ‘ There was no conception of opening up a capacity for you to do things for yourself . |
6 | ‘ You know , the headmaster is quite right , you ca n't tell a teacher what you 're going to do … for your own good some time son you 're going to have to learn the lesson that there are people who can force you to do things and you 're going to have to do them and you 've got no choice . ’ |
7 | Sponsorship should of course be the icing on the cake , there should be enough in , in competition in regattas and themselves but people are interested enough to go and to support and that sponsorship actually allows you to do things that you would n't have been able to do otherwise . |
8 | Think of people that have influenced you in the past , and got you to do things , which , if you look back , and you think , that was very clever . |
9 | You had your certain lot of wee machines that helped you to do things but more or less it was all done with the hand . |
10 | It wo n't hurt you to do G . |
11 | Aggie did not remark on the child 's handiwork ; in stead , she said , ‘ Who taught you to do housework ? ’ |
12 | And did that make it harder for you to do physics ? |
13 | this is where the schools I think are partly to blame , okay , yes they encourage you to do exams which is good but they do n't tell you that you 're gon na have difficulty getting a job even if you get A levels and all that , they sort of say oh yeah you , you stand a better chance of getting a job , but , its still , its still difficult . |
14 | But here they just give you a few examples and expect you to do example sheets , it really is so difficult . |
15 | We 've done example one together , can I now ask you to do example two , which basically is the sum , is the same sum but the client 's a smoker , so you go to the back of the book . |
16 | Employers are not allowed to take advantage of your Work Experience by asking you to do jobs which should receive payment . |
17 | It is no good the person who gave the order later complaining ‘ But I meant you to do so-and-so ’ . |
18 | you to do section G. |
19 | Multi-part questions require you to do justice to all its parts . |
20 | Cod separated the pair for fear they would reproduce , and eventually forced them to do battle with each other . |
21 | If somebody 's had a lifetime of doing tapestries or needlework or sewing , then encourage them to do needlework as an individual . |
22 | They respected him , too , of course , as one of the greatest players since the war , and knew that , as a top-flight batsman and a bowler who could be both slow and fast-medium , he would not be asking them to do things he had not already achieved himself . |
23 | From an early age I expected them to do things for themselves , and sometimes for me , and when they snivelled about their friends having kind and conscientious mothers who changed their sheets and made fruit pies , I said ‘ Some day , when you 're at Sunderland Polytechnic and living by your wits , you 'll thank me . ’ |
24 | The idea is that they feed the other side with what appears to be genuine material so as to establish their credibility and then the other side asks them to do things for them on their own home ground . |
25 | The job of care staff is not to do things for clients , but to enable them to do things for themselves . |
26 | I think , well , I think do everything as early as you possibly can , as long as the kid understands what they 're doing , it 's no good getting them to do things they do n't understand , if they understand negative numbers do it |
27 | My last question is is really again about making children do things , as opposed to encouraging or helping them to do things . |
28 | My last question is is really again about making children do things , as opposed to encouraging or helping them to do things . |
29 | Well , I 'm basically interested in the way in which education , or formal schooling , has attempted to prepare girls for their lives in the future , whether it prepares them for a life of , say , motherhood and working in the family , or whether it 's encouraging them to do work outside the home and try and achieve in the areas that men traditionally achieve . |
30 | At the moment the law makes the , the law obliges them to do A B C and prevents them from doing X Y Z. |