Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] to do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secret of good management is , never put off until tomorrow what you can get someone else to do today , especially if you want it done yesterday . |
| 2 | I am unrepentant ; perhaps it will encourage someone else to do better . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nevertheless we must delight in computers as our processing slaves and we must promote them rapidly to do more and more thinking — stopping short of allowing ourselves to become slaves to them . |
| 5 | There was no one else to do so . |
| 6 | It is not practical politics to abolish private schools , nor do I believe it right to do so , in the interests of freedom . |
| 7 | Nevertheless it appears from the judgment of Thorpe J. , and I do not doubt that he was right , that a dominant factor was W. 's desire to be in an environment where , as she thought , she was in control and could cure herself if and when she thought it right to do so . |
| 8 | His position was not unlike that of MacDonald two years before : but he was able to exert his influence with most of his former strength when he thought it right to do so . |
| 9 | If the summons for recovery of land has been served under Ord 10 , r 15 and a money claim is joined , the court must , unless it thinks it just to do otherwise , mark the summons " not served " as to the money claim ( Ord 10 , r 15(5) ) . |
| 10 | You can be perfectly well with HIV and at other times chronic debility makes it hard to do even the basic things . |
| 11 | You can be perfectly well with HIV and at other times chronic debility makes it hard to do even the basic things . |
| 12 | And I am also thinking of the identification of Rahila Khan — a novelist supposedly Asian and female — as an Anglican vicar ; and of the attempt to thwart a biography by the Englishman Ian Hamilton of the American J. D. Salinger , whose novels tell the story of his life , but who does not want anyone else to do so , preferring to keep his facts to himself . |
| 13 | Nor would he allow anyone else to do so . |
| 14 | There 's nothing else to do anyway except spend all day watching the telly . ’ |
| 15 | Have you got nothing else to do apart from squeaking chair ? |
| 16 | So there was nothing else to do then but head for the Vareyoc Café and try to relax . |
| 17 | Nothing else to do now but watch in the security-scanner , make sure it did n't record anything it should n't . |
| 18 | Phoebe loathed housekeeping so profoundly that she felt guilty about it and always did it with a disciplined and joyless rigour , expecting everyone else to do so too . |
| 19 | The atmosphere was one of people enjoying themselves in their own way and allowing everyone else to do so too . |
| 20 | I hope you are n't going to find me anything else to do tonight . ’ |