Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] to do the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She of course is in a hurry to return to Rome where she left a sweetheart and has offered to do the ironing there to save on laundry expenses so great is her anxiety to be taken . |
| 2 | Luckily someone has offered to do the washing up . |
| 3 | Rocastle has got to do the business , score a hat trick or something . |
| 4 | He has got to do the rescuing . |
| 5 | There were occasions , also , when the assistant on duty would forget the time , and suddenly realise it was two minutes to the hour and she 'd forgotten to do the observation . |
| 6 | Clare told me he 'd taken rather a lot of convincing — once he 'd determined to do the slightly naff champagne-pyramid stunt in the first place — not to try doing it with proper champagne flutes but to use the perry glasses like everybody else did ; too tall , too unstable otherwise . |
| 7 | I thought we 'd do the sling first , high sling because it 's very important to get it high and not pull it , everyone , anyone gets asked to do the high sling in their exam and if you can put a good high sling on you 're halfway to passing |
| 8 | It may well be that the jury took the view that at the outset of the relationship with each businessman the appellant may genuinely have intended to do the work but subsequently failed to do so . |
| 9 | The group might knock heads together but it does n't seem designed to do the equally important job of explaining what is happening to staff and patients . |
| 10 | DML , the company which manages the Plymouth yard , is believed to have offered to do the job for £15 million , but the value of the contract has not been officially revealed . |
| 11 | Lindsey recalls that his first flight in the Corsair was , to say the least , interesting : ‘ On the morning that John and I had arranged to do the conversion , the weather was decidedly bad with poor visibility . |
| 12 | As soon as she thought this , she realised that she had resolved to do the very same every time she killed one of her pigs . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , we 've decided to do the chart together , ’ Belinda answered , looking up an impossibly long way to meet his blue gaze as she spoke . |
| 14 | And , it was claimed , a British firm had offered to do the work for as little as £20,000 . |
| 15 | The worst thing is I suppose that you 've got to do the work because you are at home . |
| 16 | Having to get up every morning … you think ‘ Oh heck I 've go to do the place today , and I 've got to do the dinner ’ — that 's something I ca n't stand , thinking I 've got to do the dinner . |
| 17 | Having to get up every morning … you think ‘ Oh heck I 've go to do the place today , and I 've got to do the dinner ’ — that 's something I ca n't stand , thinking I 've got to do the dinner . |
| 18 | I suppose you get days when you feel you get up and you 've got to do the same old things — you get bored , you 're stuck in the same routine . |
| 19 | when they 've got to do the road or something they want somebody to do it for the three weeks or |
| 20 | So when things are n't going very well , you see , the the the f these these are the chaps that 's got to do , they 've got to do the explaining . |
| 21 | Yes you 've , you 've got to do the lot you see . |
| 22 | But you 've got to do the right kind of exercise to get the effect er and again when you come to stamina it 's got to be , you 've got to have a bit of the all round to go with the stamina . |
| 23 | You have to do the detail sequence er so for the tank farm this is , here I 've got to do the formwork before the reinforcement before the concrete or the other way round , I 've got to the reinforcement before the formwork before the concrete . |
| 24 | On the hotel the sequence was I 've got to do the first-fix plumbing before I do the second-fix plumbing . |
| 25 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 26 | Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh was going to say , well now you 've got to do this and you 've got ta to that and you 've got to do the other . |
| 27 | Yes but will it rule it out altogether do you think if you 've got to do the French ? |
| 28 | You 're tired darling cos you can actually relax now instead of thinking oh I 've got to do the dogs now or you 've got to do something else ! |
| 29 | I 've got to do the potatoes yet |
| 30 | Yeah but we 've got to do the training . |