Example sentences of "to do [adv] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Fellows were accustomed to do mostly what the Master , Sir Henry Willink , Bart. , wanted . |
| 2 | ‘ Because I ask them to do only what is in their own interest . ’ |
| 3 | It is , of course , true that such officers in many cases have powers which enable them to do lawfully what a private person might not do , but the question whether their acts are justified by their powers must be decided in proceedings before the ordinary courts . |
| 4 | Interestingly enough , as many writers have pointed out , this process led to the positing of numerous agencies with high-sounding names purporting to do exactly what the older and rejected vocabulary of pre-behaviourist mentalism had attempted to do . |
| 5 | It was their means of controlling my behaviour and getting me to do exactly what they wanted . |
| 6 | He joined the church 's prayer for boldness to do exactly what he had been told by the authorities not to do . |
| 7 | The tone control has the ability to do exactly what you 'd expect , thickening the sound or leaving it open and bright . |
| 8 | I was one of the typical Greek boys who were allowed to do exactly what they liked and nobody questioned it . |
| 9 | The question of what ‘ freedom ’ actually means is acted out — the difference between being ‘ free ’ and being able to do exactly what you like without thought for others is explained . |
| 10 | Two pages later the Report proceeded to do exactly what it said it would not do : it coupled levels of attainment to ages , by defining the expected range of levels at which pupils aged 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 would perform.4 This represented ‘ a rough speculation about the limits within which about 80% of pupils may be found to lie ’ ( DES 1988a : para.104 ) . |
| 11 | Yes , at sunrise on Christmas Eve four years ago and , it was important for us to do exactly what we wanted because erm it was a second wedding for both of us and it was also erm we wanted to have something that represented sort of the aspirations of love and so , sunrise erm , and on the top of a hill did that for us . |
| 12 | I 'd have been free to travel , to write , able to do exactly what I wanted with my life . ’ |
| 13 | But I do n't know why I 'm telling you this , because you 're going to do exactly what you want to anyway . ’ |
| 14 | My real aim is to one day see a lot of young people coming up to do exactly what I am doing . |
| 15 | I most grateful to the minister for giving way and it 's good to see the government er at last acknowledging the justice of the amendments to do exactly what we 're proposing now that we put in to most of the committees like the building societies c c c b b bill a and like the banking bill when they were discussing the nineteen eighties but Lord Justice Bingham also recommended er and I quote , the determination of the correct relationship between client , auditor and supervisor raises an issue of policy more appropriate for decision making by parliament than by the bank and the accounting profession . |
| 16 | There were also fears that Japan planned to do just what America does : use defence spending and research to help build a civil aerospace industry , and thus beat Boeing . |
| 17 | But many people would prefer to do just what I did , and take a stroll along the most beautiful scenic promenades . |
| 18 | We do not have the freedom to do just what we like . |
| 19 | And all the whole , French scientists continued to do just what they had always done — make new discoveries and expand our understanding of the natural world . |
| 20 | Dana continually hinted that she would take off for London if I refused to do just what she wanted , or if I said anything to you . |
| 21 | It made her feel that he did n't mind everyone knowing she was his girlfriend , and he was really sweet to her in bed , told her she had lovely hair and said she must never , ever cut it , it was so beautiful , and then he began to talk about Therese , saying how cruel it was that he had carried the company all these years and now , just because she was the Direktor 's favourite — he snorted at this point and said he really did believe Therese must have been old Franz 's mistress years ago in Vienna — he was being treated like a pariah , no consideration , everyone being rude and unkind to him , Therese allowed to do just what she liked on the stage even though she 'd been no-one before she came to Hochhauser . |
| 22 | And then when they get bigger you give them more and more freedom to do just what they want to do and all you do is watch carefully and make sure they 're not doing anything obviously , outrageously daft but you let them find themselves and if there are problems they bring their problems to you and you sit down and you quietly talk about it , there 's not shouting , no I say you 've got to do this because I am your parent ! |
| 23 | And when Jesus orders Judas to do quickly what must be done , he is not making a statement of clairvoyant resignation , but issuing explicit instructions . |
| 24 | And with the help of naturalists and ecologists ( and some of the best are very much aware of these added dimensions to their subjects ) it becomes possible to do consciously what has so far remained in the instinctive realm . |
| 25 | In 1961 Lionel McColvin wrote that ‘ the successful children 's librarian ’ must have ‘ common sense , which means that she must be able to take things as they are , to do simply what the situation requires , without fuss , to give and take , to be tolerant , to be practical . |
| 26 | That is yet another case of the hon. Gentleman not being able to make up his mind about his policies and he must therefore reserve the right to do precisely what is Government policy . |
| 27 | Grateful to the minister for that reply but would he not agree with me that where local authorities erm local chambers of commerce and trades councils er and his own department of employment , are already working well together with good small initiatives , to put upon them English Estates , TECs , British coal enterprise er is in fact to do precisely what he does not advocate to make a mushrooming of bureaucracy and will he not undertake to evaluate these initiative to see if they really do work or whether they 're just providing jobs for the boys . |
| 28 | my Lord , this is a problem which erm your Lordship 's had submissions from both parties and of course it goes to specialist separates , first of all one identifies , one takes one and strikes out the defending clauses within the agreements that infringe article eighty five on then applies the , the test of severance to see whether the residual agreements remain or stand , but we certainly have not depleted that the entire arrangement avoid but we pleaded the restrictions are avoid , my Lord er and that 's important because it could lead to consequence and we 're pleading it that and if for example er power in the erm standard form agency agreement was rendered void because it was an unlawful restriction , it does n't mean to say that erm an agent er a name might not of instructed an agent to write business , what we 're saying is they may not have instructed him to write all of the business that he did in fact did er write for example L M X spiral and , now if , if a particular defendant can say well have I been well you know proper position that I would of been and the restrictions not been in place I would of instructed the agent to do precisely what he did , then of course he has no defence , that 's a que that 's a point , if he says well erm I , the facts suggest and established that I would never , ever have allowed the agents to underwr to write L M X spiral business and , and the only reason he was able to do that was because of the restrictions then he can escape liability for that part of the business underwritten |
| 29 | So far most computer users still use the new technology only to do faster what they have always done before , crunch conventional numbers . |
| 30 | Anselm was at this time in exile , so it is clear that the monks , who now had a prior whom Anselm had appointed , were able to do publicly what the Anglo-Saxon enthusiasts had had to do surreptitiously before Anselm 's arrival . |