Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | What I would like is to know something about the job I came here to do . |
| 32 | All you have to do is decide which of the puddings on these pages from Cadbury 's The Taste of Chocolate would be the perfect ending to each of the following menus . |
| 33 | All you have to do is tell us about the worst computer nightmare you 've ever had . |
| 34 | So when the master comes back and says to then What have you done with your talents ? one the first servant shouts , Here , here are ten for your one , Here are five for your one , and he 's very cross with the third servant because he said , What 's the purpose of giving me giving you this money if all you 're going to do is hide it in the drawer ? |
| 35 | ‘ Martin and his team keep kicking the ball into the penalty area and all I have to do is nod it into the net , ’ the 31-year-old rider said . |
| 36 | ‘ The only thing to do is return them to the Romanians . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ What I 'm not prepared to do is commit myself to the club beyond that , until such time as a final plan , which I understand from the chairman was agreed in principle by all directors on Saturday night , has been formally ratified by all board members . |
| 38 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 39 | What I need to do is get him out the way . |
| 40 | What we 're going to do is take you to the nearest place you can get a bus . |
| 41 | All you have to do is introduce it into the plebs ’ soap . |
| 42 | All I have to do is position myself against the banner . |
| 43 | The only thing I 'm asking you to do is put them in the diary now . |
| 44 | Tony found that the best thing to do was to put her in the buggy and push her round the town , or take her to the park . |
| 45 | Waste from animals was a valuable fertiliser — all you had to do was to plough it into the land . |
| 46 | Dunwoody had in the past won on Norton 's Coin and would have been riding him in the Gold Cup had Desert Orchid been absent . |
| 47 | However , some on-the-job training , in skills such as cash handling or food preparation , is usually given to seasonal workers and this allows them to be moved into tasks which would have been denied them at the start of their employment . |
| 48 | Now several mornings a week when perhaps she should have been concerning herself with the house ( she delegated more and more to the housekeeper , who after all had run everything before she , Lily , had come ) , she would go and sit with Sadie , who was expecting another child at Christmas . |
| 49 | He might have been receiving her in the best parlour on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 50 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |
| 51 | and of course and we would have been patting ourselves on the back saying we could go in under |
| 52 | Well er by the time I arrived at the doorway to the room erm a male person was lying on the floor , spreadeagled er and my job would have been to cover him with the shot gun er to enable P C to go forward and handcuff the chap . |
| 53 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 54 | ‘ The best chance would have been to grab her on the way in , ’ the man said . |
| 55 | well I 've given many , many different answers here , I could have been here all day , giving you just between point five and point six , and you 'd have been giving one as the answer every time . |
| 56 | The alternator , which should have been recharging it during the flight , for some reason was n't . |
| 57 | The alternator , which should have been recharging it during the flight , for some reason was n't . |
| 58 | He might have been asking her about the traffic on the way in from the airport . |
| 59 | perhaps the Company 's lack of comment on its own future , which must increasingly have been worrying them at the turn of the century . |
| 60 | I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row . |