Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] to do " in BNC.
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1 | My father , a policeman , had taught me how to do this years before . |
2 | And expected everyone else to do the same . |
3 | The atmosphere was one of people enjoying themselves in their own way and allowing everyone else to do so too . |
4 | We got nothing else to do . ’ |
5 | I got nothing else to do , and at least we 'll be able to feel we 're trying . ’ |
6 | She was trusting me not to do that , putting that power in my hands . |
7 | If Joseph wanted Sabine Jourdain dead , as Barbara Coleman says , then he probably got someone else to do it . |
8 | We have all come across women who had children by accident , because they thought it was the thing to do , or because they wanted to qualify for Council accommodation , and we have all come across women who expected someone else to do everything for them . |
9 | Last time I practically took my thumb off and apparently she does n't trust me not to do it again . |
10 | so I described them how to do it , perched on our knees , looking down , no sound without a script , it was just absolutely ludicrous |
11 | Against this background of craters and devastated buildings people sit in the sun at cafes open again for a town which has nothing else to do but drink coffee and wait for the future . |
12 | The cuckoo is what is known as a brood parasite — it lays its egg in the nest of a different , host , species of bird and then has nothing further to do with it . |
13 | This has nothing directly to do with the overt sex drives of American footballers , or the claim of the early Hollywood starlet Clara Bow that she once ‘ entertained ’ the whole of the University of Southern California football team in rapid succession . |
14 | The action has nothing specifically to do with the technical content of the programmes but relates to wider difficulties between the Council of Ministers , the Commission and the European Parliament . |
15 | But that is only a reason for saying that the value is not really there in the world if we presuppose a scientistic view of reality for which it is of itself necessarily ‘ motivationally inert ’ and cognizable in a manner which has nothing essentially to do with being attracted or repelled by it . |
16 | ‘ The thing about the Sienese , ’ Haverford said , voicing a thought he intended to use in one of his ‘ Jottings ’ , ‘ is that they always want somebody else to do their dirty work for them . |
17 | We send you in to do battle with the enemy , and what happens ? |
18 | It took ages to dawn on me that I had to find something else to do with my time other than music . |
19 | As part of this , MI5 has made a bid to adopt a more proactive intelligence-gathering role in dealing with the IRA ( now the cold war is over , it has to find something else to do ) . |
20 | so you 've got to find something else to do . |
21 | When the classic car market collapsed , he had to find something else to do with the vehicles awaiting restoration : |
22 | When the classic car market collapsed , he had to find something else to do with the vehicles awaiting restoration : |
23 | And his mother promised him so to do ; and then he departed from them and went out against the frontier of the Moors . |
24 | I expect him so to do . |
25 | Is this a sign of a tradition-conscious reappraisal of iconology in the town where it began , or has it more to do with the current emphasis of your Department ? |
26 | We might need it yet to do another bit . |
27 | Too taken aback to know what else to do , Folly stood aside and watched as he carried in four more boxes . |
28 | He said said the Government was keeping interest rates high because it did not know what else to do . |
29 | I did n't know what else to do . |
30 | I 'm so sorry to cause such a lot of trouble but I did n't know what else to do . ’ |