Example sentences of "[v-ing] do [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw him he was dying to do that go back |
| 2 | ‘ It went through his chest without appearing to do any serious damage , ’ added Mr Watson . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , if I do , I 've chosen a pretty safe place to do it in , I think , ’ she responded tenderly , exploring the commanding contours of his face with fingers that had been aching to do this for months . |
| 4 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 5 | Occasionally , very occasionally , a lone knight in armour rode into Ridgery Butts from the east and plunged straight down one of the forest paths without pausing to do more than pass the time of day at the Inn and drink ale . |
| 6 | ‘ We will be pushing to do this locally and writing to the OFT on a regular basis to check on the state of play , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Or are we training to do other things ? |
| 8 | Do I need training to do this ? |
| 9 | ‘ WE 'RE ALWAYS LOOKING to do that thing which makes people stop and say , ‘ No ! |
| 10 | ‘ Now why would you be wanting to do that ? ’ he asked in lazy amusement . |
| 11 | It was you that was sick , wanting to do such a thing . |
| 12 | Reasons for wanting to do this may not be restricted to cost , although for many this will be the most important factor . |
| 13 | ‘ If you knew how much I 've been wanting to do this . ’ |
| 14 | I know wanting to do this room , really , 'cos it would be too cold . |
| 15 | Library and information science researchers keep wanting to do more research on the ‘ information needs of managers ’ in the vain hope that , eventually , they will find some managers somewhere who say that librarians and information scientists are the salt of the earth , and that their businesses would fail without them ! |
| 16 | I was very happy with the African work , and it 's left me wanting to do some exploration work , travelling expeditions and so on , as well as pure sports work . ’ |
| 17 | Although a broad range of subjects is offered , the unit does not have the facilities for certain subjects such as science , so anyone wanting to do these subjects has to use the local college facilities instead . |
| 18 | He 's continually er , persecuting them , and there 's many , many indications that he uses er , poisoned gas , or chemical weapons , and er lays waste their whole villages , and he 's seeking to do this because he wants to dominate his own country , and not allow any minorities a chance to look after themselves , and the same applies of course to the Kurds in the north , whom we have a direct responsibility , the international community , to protect . |
| 19 | Are you saying that you 're refusing to do that ? … |
| 20 | The Cabinet included three pastors , Ebeling , the SPD leader Markus Meckel as Foreign Minister , and Rainer Eppelmann of DA , the new Disarmament and Defence Minister , who had spent eight months in prison in the early 1960s for refusing to do military service , after which his church in East Berlin became a centre of dissident opposition . |
| 21 | The Community could signal displeasure by refusing to do any other special deals with Moscow . |
| 22 | But the engineers , members of the Post Office Engineering Union , are refusing to do any work on the Mercury network as a protest against the government 's plan to turn Telecom into a private company . |
| 23 | He 's only waiting to do that because . |
| 24 | ‘ Now , I 'll get you that coffee — only before that there 's something I 've been waiting to do all day . ’ |
| 25 | The place was heaving when we arrived ; there must have been a thousand people squashed into the confines of the Blue Angel club , all waiting to do three minutes for Les Cox and his production team , sitting invisibly beyond the strong footlights on the small stage . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , surely you are n't going to do stupid things with disappearing coins ? ’ said Clovis . |
| 27 | It would be better , she felt , if John were to work with Shirley , the typist , as he was only going to do odd jobs . |
| 28 | ‘ We 're going to do away with standing places , with a 10 per cent cut in the number each year over the next decade , ’ a Dutch association official said yesterday . |
| 29 | ‘ We 're going to do away with standing places , with a 10 per cent cut in the number each year over the next decade , ’ a Dutch association official said yesterday . |
| 30 | If you are going to do many punchcards invest in a continuous roll for a treat . |