Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] to do the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like my fiancé to do the traditional thing and ask my father for his permission to marry me , but he says that no one does this any more . |
| 2 | I explained again : about my job description , custom and practice and my right to do the work for which I was employed . |
| 3 | ‘ I remain confident about my ability to do the business at Premier League level , and suddenly I 've got the chance to prove this self-belief is not misplaced . |
| 4 | The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd like my mother to do the same . ’ |
| 6 | When his own daughter passed the age of twelve , Salah kept her at school and persuaded the parents of six of her contemporaries to do the same . |
| 7 | There could also be a brief introduction on which direction to do the route ; and the eventual booklet should include information on how to get back ( ? by public transport ) to the starting point — this can , I imagine , be supplied by the Council . |
| 8 | 6.2 WE HAVE DONE ALL IN OUR POWER TO AVOID INDUSTRIAL ACTION AND CONTINUE NEGOTIATINS , WE ASK THE COMMITTEE TO ILLUSTRATE THEIR WILLINGNESS TO DO THE SAME . |
| 9 | Breeze had expected opposition in this quarter , but Susan said that ‘ Factota Limited ’ was an inspiration , and promised for her part to do the housekeeping and give lessons to small children , if any could be found . |
| 10 | It was the Rolls Royce , Cadillac of its time and those of us who flew it knew of its ruggedness and its capability to do the daylight bombing . |
| 11 | Others persuade their instructors to do the very minimum necessary and state categorically that they hate stalls . |
| 12 | Their capacity to do the work was doubted : " a blackguard horde of broken down incompetents [ have been taken on ] to take up our work " . |
| 13 | They want their governments to do the same , especially on defence . |
| 14 | He was the one who had got the photograph that had enabled her father to do the portrait . |
| 15 | She went on to say that although she 'd done what she could from her Oxford home , and encouraged her friends to do the same , eventually she just had to pack and go to Orkney . |
| 16 | It was their turn to do the talking ; he would manage better without Bacci now . |
| 17 | ( 7 ) Archive material is unique and irreplacable , and history teachers should handle original material carefully and encourage their pupils to do the same . |
| 18 | Designed for four sessions , Parenting In a TV Age provides a step-by-step process to help parents learn to analyse the media , to teach their children to do the same themselves and to enable them develop selection criteria for what to watch and what to miss . |
| 19 | It encourages its employees to do the same on an individual basis . |
| 20 | When she arrived , she listened to the story of what had happened , teased out the relevant details , then announced that the police would have to be called and went off back to her office to do the necessary . |
| 21 | Th they sometimes brought their own two little boys with them and they would make the the bands to cut them bands to do the sheaves , so . |
| 22 | He gives them scope to do the deal , to become entrepreneurial . |
| 23 | Initiatives such as the Montreal speech and even the withdrawal from NATO were motivated in part by a feeling that he could not trust his successors to do the necessary . |
| 24 | The point is , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that he had spent his life seeking her out , yet left his feet to do the dirty work . |
| 25 | The plaintiff may have made the most material changes in his position , and have induced the object of his affections to do the same , and have incurred pecuniary liabilities resulting in embarrassments , which would be in every sense a loss , if the income which had been promised should be withheld ; and if the promise was made in order to induce the parties to marry , the promise so made would be , in legal effect , a request to marry . |
| 26 | He removed a birdcage containing a mechanical singing canary from his chair and sat down , gesturing for his guests to do the same . |
| 27 | Furthermore he would instruct all the dealers in his charge to do the same , on the grounds that a joint effort would shift the share price , and that , besides , the company 's prospects were good anyway . |
| 28 | Would n't he prefer the blushing apple of his eye to do the decent thing ? |
| 29 | Unfazed , Norman somehow caught it , jammed it back on , and shouted up his resolve to do the rest of the route for the most part on his knees . |
| 30 | After all , Fidel Castro managed to give up smoking , and urged his people to do the same . |