Example sentences of "to do [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Fellows around here do n't know what to do except with a radius of about three hundred yards . |
| 2 | Conversely the make-up girls had less to do than in the black-and-white days . |
| 3 | It took Maidstone four hours to decide what to do and during that time he drank only coffee . |
| 4 | The authority of the United Nations is mentioned in the Queen 's Speech and the Foreign Secretary spoke of what we are trying to do and of the involvement of the United Nations in Yugoslavia . |
| 5 | Majorca is packed with fun things to do and with years of experience behind us , we 've singled out the very best entertainments and attractions for our trips programme . |
| 6 | He went into his room and put on a record while he decided what to do and for a time became lost in the music . |
| 7 | What is distinct to us or to church work from the assumptions of central Government where funding might direct us to exclude what we want to do and to be a youth service which would deliver a prescribed curriculum . |
| 8 | you know what he 'll be able to do and to what contribution he 'll be able to make |
| 9 | It 's sort of grid iron pattern streets on the south side of the High Street ; on the north side that 's all disrupted by the castle and , as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the Rape of Lewes , was ceded to William De Warren , most of the local powers of the Town Council such as it was were taken away and subverted and the town became a minorial borough and although it sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century , it only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation , because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 10 | It only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 11 | Because once the vigorous discussion , rarely does anyone sit and accuse us of having had clearly party political discussions , we had a job of work to do and as a result of that job of work is in front of you now in items one and two . |
| 12 | She stood quite still not knowing what to do and after a moment he pulled away , reached into his pocket for a handkerchief and wiped himself , his hand and hers . |
| 13 | The Mamores are just such a group of mountains , containing 11 Munros placed magnificently between Loch Leven and Glen Nevis , and since there is easy access from both north and south you have all manner of decisions to take about where to start and finish , how many to do and in what order . |
| 14 | I sat and looked at what I had got to do and in quite lateral ways determined how to do it , which was not in the way they had always done it . |
| 15 | They were doing in that shop exactly what they intended to do and in all probability , what they intended to do from the moment they got up that morning . |
| 16 | Its very existence arises from failures in established economic systems : in the West the failure to provide enough jobs for people to do and in the Soviet bloc the failure to provide enough goods for people to buy . |
| 17 | He had a job to do and by God he was going to do it . |
| 18 | He had always been confident that Fibres would survive even during its darkest days : ‘ Parts of our business are volatile and people are used to reacting quickly and decisively — that is what we had to do but on a very big scale and at very considerable cost . ’ |
| 19 | The trails have been designed to be fun to do but with an education purpose leading children around the museum . |
| 20 | There were so many things to do but at the back of her mind she knew she would never do any of them . |
| 21 | If we had more money to spend I 'm sure there would be far more things that the councils would like to do but without money you ca n't do it ! |
| 22 | for the first thirteen weeks of unemployment people are allowed to look for jobs that they want to do or are skilled or experienced to do but after thirteen weeks they will be compelled to take any job that comes along . |
| 23 | However , feeding weekly mashes with different ingredients from the daily feeding routine is effectively producing a sudden change in diet , something we are continually told not to do because of the potentially harmful results . |
| 24 | Er now of course erm that would be a pretty dodgy thing to do because of er the way the Norwich work their bonuses . |
| 25 | Inflation is now crumbling , as it was bound to do because of the recession . |
| 26 | They made it clear also , as they had to do because of the rules by which we work , that no such change could be put into effect without formal consultation and the consent of both Houses . |
| 27 | So , so sort of technically , politically that would have been quite difficult to do because of the manpower involved etcetera |
| 28 | I mean , I am not playing with words when I say this , but it wo n't improve as fast as we would have liked it to do because of the financial situation . |
| 29 | There is one basic thing that they need to do , they or their parents , that is pick up the telephone and ring a contact , that 's all they have to do because within here there are people ready to receive those er t telephone enquiries and get the youngsters on the water . |
| 30 | I advised Smith very strongly that the best course of action for him was to throw all his weight and support behind the Lancaster House agreement , whatever it turned out to be , which he showed great reluctance to do because in his view Lancaster House was a total capitulation to the black population . |