Example sentences of "[vb infin] to do this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each task must be judged in terms of the basic question : Do I need to do this or could someone else do it for me ? |
| 2 | We would need to do this anyway because one ought to have one 's ideas in some kind of order , even if the rough convergence that we have did not leave plenty of clashes remaining which , of course , it does . |
| 3 | Friends may refrain from expressing any sympathy because they feel that it might be inappropriate and embarrassing for her , and she may be feeling that people will regard her as a hypocrite if she gives way and weeps , although she may need to do this for a variety of reasons , one of them being not so much for what she has lost , but for what she never had . |
| 4 | You will need to do this anyway , to reduce heat loss , and keep your electricity bill out of ‘ telephone numbers ’ . |
| 5 | You will not need to do this on the central loops because these disappear when the cable is pulled into place . |
| 6 | I 'm wondering how you 'll manage to fit it in with your work and family matters , er all the time that you 'll need to do this , |
| 7 | I think we should n't need to do this . |
| 8 | You did n't need to do this for a laugh ! |
| 9 | But why do we need to do this ? |
| 10 | Puzzled as to why the DEA and CIA would choose to do this through a front operation in Nicosia rather than through official channels , Coleman duly reported all this activity to Control , but the response was so muted he could only conclude that the DIA knew about it already . |
| 11 | You may choose to do this for safety reasons , since if both copies are ruined simultaneously by a fire in the computer room , no amount of intelligent software can replace the material . |
| 12 | The user may choose to do this for safety reasons , since if both copies are ruined simultaneously by a fire in the computer room , no amount of intelligent software can replace the material . |
| 13 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 14 | But before we can even begin to do this constructively , we must agree on the nature — and the terms — of the problem . |
| 15 | Some of the other letters in the box ( the typed ones ) were much less elegant , and seemed to have come from strangers ; they contained advice of a different sort , instructions about where to get sex and how much to pay for it if necessary , often these were just plain filth like I 'd like to do this to you and then I 'd like to do that to you , be at the top of the park in your grey school trousers and I 'll show you what a real man can do for you . |
| 16 | If you 'd like to do this one Mark then you can have a break |
| 17 | That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ? |
| 18 | I 'd actually go a bit further and say yes we 'd like to do this , can we also look after road maintenance as well , because the road maintenance is sent out to contractors , contractors are so busy , they ca n't actually do half this work , they 've got a list as long as your arm , so pit pitfalls in in the pavements as well as as some of the motorways are n't being done because the contract 's been placed , but they 've placed it with the wrong people . |
| 19 | Now what I 'd like to do this afternoon in the short time that we have is to outline some of the ways in which the British government is helping to meet the challenges of under development . |
| 20 | so she asked us if we would like to do this |
| 21 | And since I am raising this question of the universalizing and the depersonalizing of egoism as it becomes poetic dedication in poetry , I 'd like to do this by offering you a contrast , and I choose as my contrast Alexander Pope , another poet who was obsessively concerned with his own role as a poet — in his satires in this case . |
| 22 | Few , if any , of the psychic gifts could claim to do this . |
| 23 | Types of tan Bronzers are normally gels that contain colour pigments and can be washed off easily at night — do remember to do this or your sheets will have a golden glow too ! |
| 24 | I knew the chances were he would n't remember to do this , and said good-bye with a lightness which was a piece of very good acting . |
| 25 | The Chiefs of Staff did not want to do this , and the Defence Committee was worried lest the Korean conflict should divert attention from other danger-spots in Asia and blind Britain to the risk to which it was exposed in Europe . |
| 26 | Then he asked , ‘ Is there anyone here who would want to do this to another human being ? ’ |
| 27 | When I am tired and think , ‘ I do n't want to do this any more ’ I just tell myself that it might not be here in a few months and that there 's probably a million who would kill to be where I am . |
| 28 | They would say , ‘ Do you want to do this with me at Christmas or do you want to go surfing ? ’ |
| 29 | Once you have realized how effective and important this simple discipline is to your whole state of mind and body , you will want to do this every evening . |
| 30 | All attempts to explain just why anyone would want to do this failed . |