Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] to do [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wants to do all she can to reduce the suffering of other children … |
| 2 | She wants to do more of it , though she is too old at 27 and too short ( five foot six and a half ) for catwalks . |
| 3 | If she wants to do any or all of these things herself , though , she should be allowed to , and her own wishes in everything at this time should be respected . |
| 4 | Now , this contribution is not direct , it 's indirect in the sense that males , a male for example who is provisioning a wife who is pregnant is not directly invent investing in the offspring clearly you ca n't do that she has to do that , cos the offspring 's inside her body , but indirectly he may be feeding his wife , protecting her and providing for her in , in a way that is absolutely critical to her reproductive success too . |
| 5 | I was gon na ask is you know that he ha she has to do all these long hours . |
| 6 | there 's hardly enough for two in and then she has to do another two only , only she ca n't pour it in after it 's . |
| 7 | But typically she refuses to do this , writhing on the ground and inviting more and more matings until her period of heat has passed . |
| 8 | When she fails to do this , she runs the heavy overall current-account deficit which it has been her misfortune to do of late . |
| 9 | He has to do much interviewing and paper work , and his advocacy is confined to the comparatively small cases . |
| 10 | Then the cat yells and he remembers he has n't fed it yet and he has to do that before he goes . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been trying to get it into his thinking that he has to do more running , that he has to fight more and that there are defensive duties he has to do . ’ |
| 12 | He has to do more than they do , and he has to keep it up for much longer . |
| 13 | He needs to do more of the toiler 's work and not hang off . |
| 14 | This explains why it is strictly impossible to omit to in : ( 35 ) He needs to do more exercise . |
| 15 | Cos it has to do that . |
| 16 | Yet at the same time President Clinton claims he wants to do all he can to complete the Uruguay round of GATT trade talks , and is backing the appointment as GATT 's new director-general of Peter Sutherland , an Irish former commissioner of the EC who has just the sort of political push to get a trade deal done . |
| 17 | She seemed distressed , ‘ I mean Balbinder , he used to just sit by the telly , even now he still … he wants toys … he does n't want to do the things , he wants to do all the time what he wants to do … ’ |
| 18 | And here there 's potentially big trouble , because the way he wants to do that is by taxing the Copts more . ’ |
| 19 | I think if you 've got somebody who 's got a er a solicitor or an accountant then you need to establish why he wants to talk to them and also er if he , if he 's adamant that he wants to do that , find out who he is and ask if you can speak to him as well , or you can explain erm you know what the , what , what you 're doing with the client . |
| 20 | Sir Peter says he wants to do another pyelogram soon . |
| 21 | He wants to do more programmes as well as record more good songs . |
| 22 | ‘ He wants to do this job above all else and that is a major plus , ’ a close friend said last night . |
| 23 | I 'd just phoned it through and people started ringing up saying you know somebody 's mother tells me and can you come and do our son because he wants to do this and Yes sure . |
| 24 | He wants to do this rap thing does n't he ? |
| 25 | Mr Clark 's job is to cut the government 's £50 billion deficit and one way he plans to do that is to spread VAT around more widely . |
| 26 | He has bought himself a couple of Hunters and he plans to do some show jumping of all things . |
| 27 | Exactly how he intends to do this , and how such an attempt will fit into his strategy to bring inflation under control , remain a mystery . |
| 28 | It intends to do this by modifying the object interface definition language in its System Object Model ( SOM ) for OS/2 2.0 to support CORBA 's interface definition language . |
| 29 | ‘ Not really because it seems to do any good but just because the thinking is that it 's better for him than other commercial products , ’ says Kathleen . |
| 30 | It aims to do this particularly by cutting down administration costs and releasing management time for more valuable tasks than ploughing through mountains of paperwork . |