Example sentences of "[verb] to do [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | what , what I propose to do anyway if it 's agreeable to you |
| 2 | However , the four Basque deputies elected in October for United People ( HB ) had still not taken up their seats , and the Constitutional Court confirmed in a ruling on March 29 that they would not be permitted to do so unless they swore the conventional oath of allegiance to the Constitution [ see p. 37135 ] . |
| 3 | As the Young family regularly pits its wits against the Mastermind contenders with spectacular lack of success most Sundays , I was expected to do better than usual . |
| 4 | Until he is capable of doing this without a rider , he can not be expected to do so when ridden . |
| 5 | However , as he wrote in the following May , it galled him to be expected to do so and still to be refused admission to the members ' enclosures at smart meetings . |
| 6 | We may tend to assume that other companies and cultures operate with the same sorts of motivations and criteria of success as we do , despite the fact that Japanese companies , for instance , turn in a very low rate of profit compared to those in the United Kingdom , and indeed do not need to do so because of the low interest charges and ready availability of capital in their country . |
| 7 | Baroness Hooper 's letter states on the first page with regard to student loans : ‘ Students are not obliged to take up a loan if they do not need to do so and indeed Jeffrey has not availed himself of the facility . ’ |
| 8 | But I think she 'll need to do more than one , you know ? |
| 9 | Large new stations designed to do just that were built in these three cities after the Second World War . |
| 10 | ‘ Horace always wants to do better than anyone 's done before . ’ |
| 11 | She needs to do more and stick to it . |
| 12 | Having been stung in a similar situation in their last league game when Gregor McKechnie called their bluff over a kickable penalty and scuttled in for a try , Tukalo tried to do likewise after Joe Munro had been caught offside in the Watsonian 22 , as Scott Hastings was called to arms to police Linton . |
| 13 | Oswald , carrying Goneril 's letter , and with the added instructions to kill Gloucester should he find him , tried to do so but was killed by Edgar , who discovered their secret plans to kill Albany ( King Lear , IV.vi.227–80 ) . |
| 14 | It is not very easy to arrange ventilation schemes when the designer has forgotten to do so and often the best that could be done was to arrange to leave the inspection doors open when on the ground . |
| 15 | I hesitate to do so because that 's actually a source of difference between us and the County Council . |
| 16 | By seventeen he was ‘ pretty much washed up ’ — on the awkward side of the labour laws , still forbidden to do overtime or skip lessons , but in competition with eighteen-year-olds who could do both . |
| 17 | You can be as active or as lazy as you wish ; the important thing is that it is something you want to do rather than something you feel you should do ; |
| 18 | Yeah they 'll probably teach you that , yeah more than likely , yeah , you 'd of touch the chimney flue , part of it , but the trouble is the qualifications have fall beyond of what I want to do anyway and considering it 's gon na cost a couple of grand to get it |
| 19 | ‘ I want to do more and feel that I can , now that I 've brought up my family . ’ |
| 20 | Erm East Midlands erm expect to do well and that continues a reasonably firm trend . |
| 21 | The evidence showed that the plaintiff would have worn the goggles if he had been firmly instructed to do so and supervised . |
| 22 | You are not obliged to tell anyone at school of your child 's HIV status , but you may choose to do so if you feel it is best for your child to have a trusted adult who knows the situation . |
| 23 | Now of course during the nineteen eighties the protection of agricultural land for its own sake er lost weight as an issue and the relevant structure plan policies er lost effective weight and were seen to do so but Government policy was quite explicit in the nineteen eighty seven circular , I think it was num number sixteen , was that although agricultural land protection as a farming resource was diminished as an issue , the protection of the countryside for its own sake was not . |
| 24 | D had the same complaint about C. B and C also admitted to finding it very difficult to manage their immediate subordinates , C and D respectively , who seemed to do better if treated as colleagues and left alone . |
| 25 | The argument is certainly persuasive for efficient farming areas , and , according to farm unions in Germany , some farmers there have decided to do just that by not completing the IACS forms and not seeking the subsidies or the controls which are the price of the subsidies . |
| 26 | He must have decided to do so because he took on an apprentice the day after he was freed . |
| 27 | She said he had agreed to do so but had driven off when she shouted for her father . |
| 28 | As they passed the alimentari ( shut , as it might be forever ) and then plunged off the road into the shadows of the bramble-lined single track , Haverford quoted , as he had been waiting to do ever since they left Heathrow : ‘ ‘ In the middle of the journey of our life , I found myself lost in a dark wood , ’ ’ he began to translate for the benefit of the children , but they were all , including the baby , asleep now and Molly thought that for her father to pretend to be in the middle of his life was a bit of a cheek anyway . |
| 29 | Maxton led the opposition to this view , claiming not that the Party should disaffiliate immediately , but that it should not hesitate to do so if its freedom to advocate the Socialism in Our Time policy were limited . |
| 30 | , so I put her out in the end it erm it was surprising everybody knew what was going to happen they knew what I was going to do right when I come back in after swi place was empty they 'd got out that door before I 'd got her out the door but erm no it 's it 's very insulting . |