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Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [to-vb] [num ord] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Now what I want to do is I want them to respond first .
2	‘ I suppose you want me to go first , ’ said Caspar as they stood looking up at the open window , which was grimy and smeary , but much lower than the other windows .
3	I did n't know who to telephone first — my husband , to tell him the amazing news — or Sally Bulgin , editor of The Artist , to ask if she was really sure my picture was the chosen one !
4	I 'll tell you what it I I want you to do first and then you can write it down .
5	It was difficult to know what to say next .
6	Daak had looked confused : he marched straight to Ace , but seemed not to know what to do next .
7	No one seemed to know what to do next , or what was expected of them , and in the end it was David himself who took control .
8	Oh , heck , Fabia thought , and for a moment was flummoxed to know what to do next .
9	It was hard to know what to try first — tennis , squash , volleyball — no expert knowledge was required , just plenty of enthusiasm .
10	As with a number of similar literary-based projects around in Hollywood at a time when mainstream studios were trying to discover what to do next after the demise of musical and religious epics , it was not a success .
11	Her son was married , her daughter-in-law expecting their first baby and she did n't know what to say next .
12	But the one was at him yesterday and he , well he did n't know what to say next .
13	We did n't know what to do next . ’
14	I did not know what to do next .
15	Marcus still stood looking down , almost as if he were now puzzled and did not know what to do next .
16	There was obviously some sort of sexual element to it but I just did n't know what to do next and expected this man , who was about two or three years older than me , to , in some way , tell me or indicate to me and so I followed him without talking to him .
17	A bewildered staff did n't quite know what to do next as they were completely ignorant of the ongoing wrangle between Carter and the Stones over ‘ Ruby Tuesday ’ which , it seems , still has n't been sorted out .
18	There is little point in making early diagnoses if we do not know what to do next .
19	He did n't know what to do next .
20	I do not know what to do next .
21	It 's much better to be able to have one telephone number of somebody to ring up and say , ‘ Hey , the screen 's gone blank and I do n't know what to do next , ’ and have somebody , initially over the telephone , giving you advice , helping you to get round the problem , or , if necessary , sending round a service engineer quite smartly .
22	How do I know what to write next ?
23	You 'd know what to expect next time — that does n't do it for him , you know what I mean ? ’
24	We did not know what to think last night and we had to fear the worst .
25	He was by now so ‘ thoroughly out of health ’ that he retired to Scarborough for two months with his family to recuperate and consider what to do next .
26	I believe that local authorities should have a strong housing function that we as local authorities should be providing good , well managed social housing in which our tenants have a say , where we have good tenant participation , where we have tenants taking a part in the sorts of repairs that they want to see , where every year they are er consulted and asked about where they want us to go next in terms of modernisation and repair .
27	‘ The GS&W ; , Dublin , wants us to begin next week , ’ John said , folding his letter .
28	Christian Aid 's emphasis on strengthening the poor might direct us to look first at supporting people at the base ‘ doing theology ’ , rather than year-long academic retreats .
29	Today an answer phone message advised them to ring next week .
30	The control cavities of both these guitars have been screened , which is further indication that Hamer intend you to travel first class all the way .