Example sentences of "what [adv] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that evening I felt instinct for the first time — what not to do and what to do . |
| 2 | In showing off their agility in a Force 2 , they learn what not to do to remain upright in a Force 5+ . |
| 3 | In any single game , a computer will make enough mistakes to illustrate a whole textbook of what not to do . |
| 4 | There are step-by-step instructions and warnings about what not to do . |
| 5 | What not to do is to pan from the toddler back to the father , instead of cutting from one to the other . |
| 6 | The upshot was I saw exactly what not to do with my life . |
| 7 | ‘ It is easy for the guidance to tell us what not to do , but it is very difficult to legislate for all possible scenarios . ’ |
| 8 | Young people are fed up with being told by grown-ups WHAT TO DO and WHAT NOT TO DO . |
| 9 | And now I am going to have to tell you WHAT TO DO and WHAT NOT TO DO , but this time it 's a bit different because the DOs and DON'Ts that I am going to give you may easily SAVE YOUR LIFE . |
| 10 | The child is surrounded by GIANTS , and the trouble with these beastly GIANTS is that they seem to spend most of their lives telling the child WHAT TO DO and WHAT NOT TO DO . |
| 11 | Having made my excuses , I must now regretfully become one of those unpopular giants who tells you WHAT TO DO and WHAT NOT TO DO . |
| 12 | They knew everything bar the kitchen sink , what to do and what not to do . |
| 13 | ‘ But all that means is that I know damn well what not to do . |
| 14 | After they 've scalded my ears with their abuse for a few weeks , and paraded my wreckage before the assembled ranks as an edifying example of what not to do and how not to do it , they will probably just turn me into a stone gargoyle on the roof of some Gothic cathedral . |
| 15 | So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ? |
| 16 | I 'm meeting Virginia Bottomley next Monday afternoon at central office and I 'll be putting the I will be putting whow I will b I will be putting the very question to her as to we 've had a lot of advice as what not to do , how do you chastise the children in the homes ? |
| 17 | The professor who recently returned from an extended visit to Australia and New Zealand said he found very good examples in Australia of what not to do in the field of child welfare . |
| 18 | he 's in the hands of these people here , who tell him what to do and what not to do |
| 19 | I still ca n't make up my mind what exactly to do about trying to get a university place or something like it , and I would feel better , I think , if we could talk about what you said when I visited you . |
| 20 | He had n't decided what exactly to do . |
| 21 | He said said the Government was keeping interest rates high because it did not know what else to do . |
| 22 | I did n't know what else to do . |
| 23 | I 'm so sorry to cause such a lot of trouble but I did n't know what else to do . ’ |
| 24 | They make rotten toilet paper , and I do n't know what else to do with them , and , oh Nick ’ — she suddenly sat heavily beside me on the bed — ‘ you 're a good man and sometimes I think how nice it would be to have a good man in my life again . ’ |
| 25 | I do n't know ( at all clearly ) what else to do . |
| 26 | The new government , perhaps not knowing what else to do , took the drastic step of freezing all savings , while abandoning wage indexing even though inflation was still running at about 8 per cent a month . |
| 27 | He did n't know what else to do . |
| 28 | Not knowing what else to do ( though now , suddenly , there was an awareness in her of where the burrow lay , point nine of a klick to the south-south-east , and the trail unscrolled before her taking forty-seven metric minutes at the pace they 'd come ) , Jezrael drifted along behind his back . |
| 29 | ‘ Very kind of you to say so , ’ Dyson would reply , not knowing what else to do , but turning his back for shame on Bob and poor old Eddy 's empty desk . |
| 30 | I 'm sure it 's very wrong of me to trouble you , but I am so worried , and I do n't know what else to do . |