Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next I ask myself , does one congratulate oneself on getting married or not ? — or is that left for everyone else to do ? |
| 2 | While I was doing that all the drums I left last week for them just to do they had n't done . |
| 3 | As we shall see in the next chapter , there are those who believe that management have often adopted forms of work organisation which give rise to unsatisfying jobs because it is cheaper for them so to do . |
| 4 | Whilst in many cases firms with more than 20 partners will for reasons of publicity wish to set out their names on the firm 's documentation , there is no compulsion for them so to do ( and beyond a certain number it obviously becomes impracticable ) . |
| 5 | Preferably you can arrange for someone else to do these jobs for you . |
| 6 | Some of them are reluctant to ask visiting relatives , who may already be doing shopping for them , to run extra errands , such as taking prescriptions to the chemist or clothes to the launderette or dry cleaners , changing their library books and collecting their pension ; so it is always as well to check to make sure that you are meeting these needs , or arranging for someone else to do so . |
| 7 | Well , I reckon so , so I I 've arranged for someone else to do it now . |
| 8 | ‘ The benefit now is that a child can institute proceedings without having to wait for somebody else to do it , ' said Mr Kidd . |
| 9 | yeah it is local so I 'll still be coming to the group , I mean it 's erm , going , I mean erm just bear that in mind I might need sort of some help with coordinating cards and things , and erm , particularly if we do opt into the campaign , er it might be advisable for somebody else to do it , or at least sort of give me assistance . |
| 10 | Or do you feel comfortable making decisions about where you 're investing your money , or would you be happy for somebody else to do it ? |
| 11 | A tiny minority of landowners lived in enormous wealth and comfort , exacting feudal dues and enforced labour from farmers who had in effect become their tied peasants : these landowners still engaged in the grain trade as their families had done for generations , and as if they could think of nothing else to do . |
| 12 | Nor is it simply looking at them with no further end in mind , which might be the listless action of someone who can think of nothing else to do . |
| 13 | Questions of this switched on and some of them how to do . |
| 14 | She must think of something else to do . |
| 15 | George took his for want of something else to do . |
| 16 | He , Ratagan and Isay were wandering the fortress and taking in the holiday atmosphere for want of something else to do before the feast began . |
| 17 | In any single game , a computer will make enough mistakes to illustrate a whole textbook of what not to do . |
| 18 | After they 've scalded my ears with their abuse for a few weeks , and paraded my wreckage before the assembled ranks as an edifying example of what not to do and how not to do it , they will probably just turn me into a stone gargoyle on the roof of some Gothic cathedral . |
| 19 | The professor who recently returned from an extended visit to Australia and New Zealand said he found very good examples in Australia of what not to do in the field of child welfare . |
| 20 | Unable to think of anything else to do , I suggested to Eileen that we tried regressing her to her childhood . |
| 21 | I could n't think of anything else to do except get out . |
| 22 | I 'll change if I can think of anything else to do , but I ca n't . |
| 23 | This , like everything else to do with food and dieting , I did secretly and guiltily , without confiding in anyone . |
| 24 | ‘ People who had their money in high-interest accounts are looking for something else to do with it . |
| 25 | I 'm stuck for something else to do at this minute , so I might as well listen . ’ |
| 26 | Long winter days with nothing else to do . |
| 27 | Here , it 's do this , señorita , do that , señorita , as if I 'm a half-witted adolescent with nothing else to do with my time . |
| 28 | Ecclestone , president of the Formula One Constructors Association , had pleaded with him not to do it and added : ‘ I 'm frightened for him . |
| 29 | MES : ‘ There 's a lot of middle-aged blokes around with nowt else to do , have you noticed ? |
| 30 | Do you really think I 'd do that — take money from you for doing one thing , and at the same time take money from someone else to do the opposite ? ’ |