Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to do [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will only want to do this on rare occasions . |
| 2 | Jarvis did n't much want to do any of these things , but he did want to go up north and admire the old Glasgow PIE , not to mention going back to ride once more San Francisco 's BART , which tunnels deeply through the rock under the Bay . |
| 3 | Staff , on the other hand , felt that they constantly tried to do this , both through formal mechanisms , like the initial meeting , nursery booklet , parents ' nights , and also informally , through chat . |
| 4 | Indeed the York greenbelt is entirely designed to do that . |
| 5 | Glover only decided to do another sequel because the original people were involved . |
| 6 | He 's only waiting to do that because . |
| 7 | Right I suppose I 've better got to do some housework Gail . |
| 8 | Okay , it right , erm , nought point five three , you 're obviously going to do these quicker than I can write them down , so you can write them down . |
| 9 | you 're not fucking throwing the plane out of control or the elevator would rip off or something , I mean if you get the same sort of thing probably would only have to do that , break the surface a little bit . |
| 10 | I had the good fortune to have two older sisters around the house , who basically had to do all the nasty dirty work . |
| 11 | In general , accounting and economic literature has only begun to do this relatively recently . |
| 12 | How often do you dump a file on someone 's desk with a Post-it note on it saying ‘ do this ’ and get it back — okay — competently done but with no knowledge how it might have disrupted that person 's other work or even if they liked doing it enough to want to do more ? |
| 13 | I only intended to do that first album , because it was a new label and I did n't want to sign to a label that had no track record . |
| 14 | It is not the purpose of this paper to attempt to redress this historical balance , there are others at work already far better qualified to do this . |
| 15 | If in doubt about what to do next , keep yourself busy by going around and changing all the name plates : in a move scarcely calculated to do much to restore battered confidence in the company , IBM Corp 's shrunken Cadam Inc , the Burbank , California company that now confines itself to the microcomputer versions of the computer-aided design software , has changed its name to Altium , effective immediately : it says the Altium name is part of its plan to secure the unit 's position in the desktop market and ‘ a part of the larger renewal ’ of IBM . |
| 16 | Some novice gardeners may not want to do much actual gardening at all , but conversely , do not want to look out every day over a scene of threadbare grass and rotting fence . |
| 17 | I could attack the capital and kill all the Lilliputians , but when I remembered the King 's past kindness to me , I did not want to do that . |
| 18 | However , Owen did not want to do that if it could be avoided . |
| 19 | But , erm , you may not , you may not want to do that . |
| 20 | The Chiefs of Staff did not want to do this , and the Defence Committee was worried lest the Korean conflict should divert attention from other danger-spots in Asia and blind Britain to the risk to which it was exposed in Europe . |
| 21 | The biographies were terse and restrained , as far as his private life was concerned , and effusive only about the names and quality of his publications She thought that she might ring Peter de Salis , and ask him about Mrs Denham , but she did not want to do this , in case Mrs Denham was a lady of such fame that ignorance of her would prove to be positively compromising . |
| 22 | I did not want to do this and did n't go . |
| 23 | Do you not want to do this ? |
| 24 | Migrants who said they did not want to do another course or were unsure , generally said that they wanted to finish the current course before considering anything else . |
| 25 | In the paragraphs that follow the references to party manifestoes are not intended to do more than to highlight some of the more obvious differences in emphasis . |
| 26 | Go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views . ’ |
| 27 | And I say to them ‘ Look , do n't start planning this whole thing on your own from the beginning , go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , or we agreed at such and such a meeting that I would do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views . |
| 28 | Whatever we need to go through to continue to do that — raising money , training new volunteers , finding more efficient ways of managing our information and our office , contributing to public debate on the state of lesbian and gay rights — I hope we have the sense and the energy to endure . |
| 29 | ‘ No , we do not need to do that . |
| 30 | You will not need to do this on the central loops because these disappear when the cable is pulled into place . |