Example sentences of "to do [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nurses working in a ward or department would come on duty and consult a ‘ Work book ’ to find out what they were to do during their shift . |
| 2 | Well erm what I 'd like to do during our course of discussions is er ask you for referrals |
| 3 | And this is what I want us to do during our two days together . |
| 4 | But Central Office could exert only informal pressure , since it could neither bully nor bribe its local supporters , and this is exactly what Steel-Maitland set out to do through his district agents . |
| 5 | But if neither China nor East Germany is shy about attacking the West , both tread gingerly over the problem at the heart of their common predicament - what to do about their fellow socialists . |
| 6 | And , perhaps most crucial of all , what are they going to do about their next overseas player ? |
| 7 | Breathing , no something to do about their physical appearance |
| 8 | What was Britain going to do about its colonial subjects now that they laid claim to ‘ Britishness ’ ? |
| 9 | That still leaves it with the human problem of what to do about its many customers , the sizeable backlog of orders they have created and the delays they face . |
| 10 | What was the Tory Party going to do about its Young Conservatives ? |
| 11 | She did n't know what to do about her breasts . |
| 12 | And Nichols kept saying , ‘ What are we going to do about his nose ? ’ |
| 13 | In Malibu , he knew what to do about his ambitions . |
| 14 | But I quite see that you need someone to come in on a practical issue like what to do about his tenants . |
| 15 | So it 's a very great honour and privilege for me to address you today because at the end it may be difficult for you to understand but when I return to South Africa , and forgive me for speaking personally I also realize the full meaning of the support of British trade unions and the labour movement and the churches because it was because of your political material and particularly in the case of the G M B , financial and material support that it gave us the means to do what some of us wanted to do about our country and our situation , and bring about change if we could peacefully . |
| 16 | ‘ What are you going to do about your car ? ’ |
| 17 | What are you going to do about your Mum ? |
| 18 | There just might be two the direction of that , what are we going to do about your hive problems ? |
| 19 | ‘ I needed time to decide what to do about my career , ’ she admitted . |
| 20 | In the middle of this , Boy switched to a documentary made by a group of prostitutes which showed married men sitting nervously on the edges of beds in hotel rooms , sitting on neatly flowered bedspreads and having difficulty ( they were embarrassed by the female camera crew ) saying exactly what it was that they wanted to do for their thirty pounds . |
| 21 | It would not be easy telling him to go but it was something she needed to do for her own peace of mind . |
| 22 | That 's a very generous thing for a daughter to do for her parents . ’ |
| 23 | I 'd actually I do n't think I 'll get a book for Jackie because I will be honest with you she has so much reading to do for her English teaching and drama . |
| 24 | I 'd , actually I do n't think I 'd get a book for Jackie because I will be honest with you she has so much reading to do for her English teaching and drama |
| 25 | It asks you what you 've got to do for , it tells you what you 've to do for your test and it tells you what you should and what you should n't do , it 's only forty one pages so if you want to read it you can have it , it 's quite good , it 's not full pages either it 's like drawings and just bits of paragraphs . |
| 26 | how many more different strokes have you to do for your map ? |
| 27 | Malcolm was really into doing good window displays for the shop , often influenced by the ones Mr Green used to do for his Vince 's Man 's Shop in Soho — which was the first boutique ever , bringing faded blue denim and hipster trousers to the British public in the fifties . |
| 28 | However generous Edward wished to be — and his willingness to challenge the Stanleys suggests that he saw Richard 's endowment as a matter of some urgency — there was a limit to how much he could afford to do for his brother . |
| 29 | However generous Edward wished to be — and his willingness to challenge the Stanleys suggests that he saw Richard 's endowment as a matter of some urgency — there was a limit to how much he could afford to do for his brother . |
| 30 | We would certainly like to him to come out of his own free will and that 's what we are trying to persuade him to do for his own good . |