Example sentences of "to do [be] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | from escaping through the top and if you 're i if it 's a fa you know , there 's some light or disturbance you and want to sleep and the best thing to do is to go into a light doze cos , you know , you ca n't do much else that 's cover your face . |
| 2 | Now all you need to do is decide on a specific package ! |
| 3 | Far from seeking to gain political advantage , all that my Group have tried to do is to continue with a long-held policy on disability . |
| 4 | ‘ What we will expect the regions to do is adhere to the firm budgets by doing their job properly , ’ he said . |
| 5 | There are no conditions specifically attached under the IDO but of course we have obligations — the county minerals officer will be pursuing us for restoration quite rightly — what we 'd like to do is go beyond the basic restoration and make it much better . |
| 6 | All I want to do is go through a few aspects of your statement , to make sure I 've got them right . ’ |
| 7 | A radio paging system means staff can be bleeped when needed , all they have to do is go to the nearest intercom substation and they are straight through to reception or the management office . |
| 8 | The first thing to do is forget about the six for a minute . |
| 9 | All an eavesdropper has to do is key in the broad frequency and then ‘ tweak ’ it a little to get the fine tuning . |
| 10 | What we have to do is to think of a personal God without thinking of a ‘ body ’ of God . |
| 11 | And what we 've tried to do is to look at the national curriculum and try to identify young engineers who could go in and help with design and technology and quite obviously , practice what they preach . |
| 12 | I found the windows version easier to use , as all the commands are available at the top of the screen in the form of buttons ( in true windows format ) , all you need to do is to click on the required command . |
| 13 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 14 | All you have to do is tear off the top right hand corner of your envelopes , leaving ¼″ of paper round the stamp . |
| 15 | What I want to do is concentrate on the modern sex theory and then er explain that and then relate it to Freud . |
| 16 | All Nigel has time to do is slap on the magic sponge and decide whether the man can carry on . |
| 17 | I was talking on Sue , I was saying if you 've got a client who did n't give you the convenient forty two pounds , but said you 'd got forty or thirty pounds to spend , the first thing you 've got to do is take off the two pounds policy fee , so you 're left in this case , with thirty eight pounds . |
| 18 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 19 | All that the king-duke had to do was to legislate in the same way — to try to anticipate French edicts , or to follow them immediately with his own . |
| 20 | They were constrained by s I mean like what they wanted to do was constrained by the practical sort of necessities of the time and even if they had wanted to have a more vigorous policy of land reform |
| 21 | She wanted to drop off the face of the earth , then she wanted him to drop off the face of the earth , but , since neither was a possibility , all she wanted to do was to retreat to the darkest corner of the house , and lick her wounds . |