Example sentences of "[to-vb] to do [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're going to try to do that anyway . |
| 2 | It bought a couple of small diagnostic manufacturers to try to do this . |
| 3 | For example , a man who wished to make certain grievances clear to his boss decided that this was best approached , in the first instance , by writing to his boss because he realized that , were he to try to do this face to face , he would find it difficult to express himself without losing his temper . |
| 4 | If corporate diversification were relevant , it might be a good idea to try to do this , but corporate strategic portfolio analysis does not consider it . |
| 5 | Yes , she would like to train to do that . |
| 6 | Someone to come to do all this for you . |
| 7 | so she 's er , she 's waiting for 'em to come to do that , anyway she 's er , somebody rang her did n't they and they asked her if she 'd have a little boy of four months old , Thursdays and Fridays all day and she started this week with him , so I said well Pauline |
| 8 | Although the speaker is obviously not denying the fact that the Senate dared to criticize the National Film Board in this use , he is saying on the other hand that he would not have thought it possible for Senators to dare to do such a thing , given the sacrosanct character of the media . |
| 9 | You do n't need to talk to do this . |
| 10 | All of our reparation work is based on the fact that we want people to volunteer to do this work . |
| 11 | i if someone would like to volunteer to do these transpositions , |
| 12 | Right and I want you to plan to do that for a call tonight in order to what you would say to this sort of person all right ? |
| 13 | Yeah , get her to wait to do that . |
| 14 | Maybe the successful completion of the recording sessions , coupled with the move , persuaded Ken finally to agree to do Gentle Jack — if only for three months . |
| 15 | Were I to agree to do more than that , it might have the effect of making it extremely difficult for either management or employees to launch a successful bid . |
| 16 | Whatever we need to go through to continue to do that — raising money , training new volunteers , finding more efficient ways of managing our information and our office , contributing to public debate on the state of lesbian and gay rights — I hope we have the sense and the energy to endure . |
| 17 | " I always obey my father without question as I did today , and all I ask is that you help me to continue to do that . " |
| 18 | I would suggest to the committee on page sixteen on our recommendations that we do make the point about Avarag and NovaSports , just in terms of consistency , and I would expect you to want to continue to do that . |
| 19 | This has been the most fastest growing part of the holiday taking in this country over the past two or three years and I 'm hoping it will continue and so does our industry — in other words the hotels and accommodation , the tourist attractions — all are hoping , you know , that people are going to continue to do this erm and I think this may apply to certain sectors of the community erm and we just hope that that will grow . |
| 20 | Well it , ah well , of course the other thing you 'd have to do to do that is put a top |
| 21 | He had only been out of his house for two nights so he was not going to start to do criminal things . |
| 22 | For her , there is some slight security in the continuity of attending to all the basic daily household tasks as she has done for many years , but when his ‘ first wave ’ of helpers begins to depart he will have to learn to do much more for himself to keep his home going , which will be an added burden to those he is already carrying . |
| 23 | The long-term solution is for the executives to learn to do these things well . |
| 24 | Such areas as staffing and physical resources were monitored by CNAA and , thus , it was considered unnecessary duplication to seek to do this again . |
| 25 | Tiriac is still miffed that the ATP final did not come to Stuttgart : ‘ The ATP told me to join the auction , but I am too good to have to do that . ’ |
| 26 | I 'd never want to have to do that again . |
| 27 | And er lace what 's got all the scallops round , well you used to have to do that . |
| 28 | I certainly do n't want to have to do that , but if it becomes a problem I will : I 'm not going to put to the continuation of the list here in jeopardy ( or for that matter my good name , such as it is ! ) |
| 29 | Now that 's a bit of a change for a recruiter to have to do that . |
| 30 | We had to explain to them what a three-dimensional , you know , lock-up page was and why , you know , gutters were a certain width and if you had column rules and gutters , you know , why they were centered and why you could n't , if you had a wide margin below three columns of text why you did n't move the gutter beyond where the text was n't so white , or why you did n't move it down and have it join a rule here because it would have been a real pain in the arse to have to do that in metal , so you just sit and do it . |