Example sentences of "thing [pers pn] [verb] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the very early days I looked at the market and decided one of the things I wanted to do was to build a big PR company because the market suffered from too many small companies . |
| 2 | Well staggeringly enough I do n't actually have one this week because the only things I have to report are covered at in under energy conservation bill . |
| 3 | She became a snob ; she thought only of smart society ; and finally she tried to turn her uncle out of the very house in which the most useful things she knew had been inserted into her brain . |
| 4 | We decided one of our first things we had to do was decide on a sequence of construction for these tanks . |
| 5 | And erm one of the things we agreed to do was to compile a list . |
| 6 | One of the things we intend to do is issue new , revised guidelines on portrayal . |
| 7 | One of the things they have to do is to get your uric acid I think it 's called erm content correct . |
| 8 | The term suggests that the memory and reasoning processes of the people are predominantly visual ( though picture is also used of other senses ) ; one of the things they have to learn is to make abstractions from such data . |
| 9 | When a retailer sets up a new business , one of the first things he has to do is draw up a plan of the shop floor . |
| 10 | I know you had a terrible time and the last thing I meant to do was to upset you . |
| 11 | The other thing I have done is setting down there is various amounts of stuff to go off to my father |
| 12 | The last thing I want to do is talk . |
| 13 | ‘ I mean , do n't let the fact I 'm the longest serving flat-dweller put you off ; the last thing I want to do is embarrass you , Gav , ’ I said ( just a tad tetchily ) . |
| 14 | The last thing I want to do is break the spell . |
| 15 | ‘ The last thing I want to do is break up your friendship . ’ |
| 16 | The last thing I want to do is to share a place with a couch potato . |
| 17 | Into the Movie Editor , and the first thing I want to do is get that background onto the screen . |
| 18 | ‘ The last thing I want to do is to offend you . |
| 19 | ‘ The last thing I want to do is spoil Thomas or have him look forward to my visits simply because he knows I 'll arrive bearing gifts . ’ |
| 20 | The next thing I do remember is waking up in a very grand house a few streets away from where the robbery took place . |
| 21 | and the last thing I wanted to do was give , give erm give you anything because |
| 22 | Unless I went back to Harwich , I was going to be flat broke in a couple of days and just at that moment the last thing I wanted to do was to go back to Harwich . |
| 23 | ‘ I reached such a low ebb that there were many times when the last thing I wanted to do was to go out and play golf . |
| 24 | ‘ I reached such a low ebb that there were times when the last thing I wanted to do was to go out and play golf . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , anyway … the last thing I wanted to do was to get involved in a fight — especially as I had the children with me . |
| 26 | ‘ The last thing I wanted to do was teach . |
| 27 | When you have sent off your pristine cassette , your witty biography and your complimentary tickets , the next thing you need to do is make a follow-up call : ‘ Oh hello . |
| 28 | The first thing you have to do is take the kettle to the tap and turn the tap on , and then take the kettle back from where you got it and plug it into the plug and , wait for the kettle to boil . |
| 29 | If your car breaks down or you need to get a taxi home late at night , the last thing you want to do is wander round looking for a phone box . |
| 30 | Having loaded your game for the very first time , the last thing you want to do is read an instruction sheet this size . |