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 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 . ’
17 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 .
18 If you just want to do some basic word processing , for example , you really do n't need a 50MHz 486DX with 8Mb or RAM and a 200Mb hard disk .
19 If you just want to do some basic word processing , for example , you really do n't need a 50MHz 486DX with 8Mb of RAM and 200Mb hard disk .
20 Scott finally decided to do neither .
21 If it is used too early , it can be confusing so that the reader has to ‘ count back ’ to find out who is speaking and readers are not generally prepared to do that too often .
22 I had already decided to do that as soon as I entered the darkened chamber where the royal beast sat slouched on a chair .
23 ah , I 've just got to do some cooking , bit of cleaning
24 I 'm sure you 've already agreed to do that . ’
25 They are not actually all that difficult , as we 've been finding in the teaching that we 've been doing where indeed we have students who take a ten week course , sort of once a week , and by about week six they 're already beginning to do that , they 're beginning to work out their own problems erm puzzles and games and little language understanding programs and that 's commonplace , actually .
26 When Granny heard this she just sniffed and said , ‘ Well Morag , that means we 'll just have to do all the cleaning ourselves , eh . ’
27 Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that , contrary to statements made from time to time by Northern Ireland Ministers , the administration of justice in Northern Ireland is signally failing to do that ?
28 Well he star I think probably the first He must have been a joiner for a wee while before he was you were just asked to do this the same I suppose as any other job any other joiner job
29 Yeah I was just I was just trying to do that
30 But you just had to do that sort of thing , I , we used to feel awfully sorry for the patients but you had , they had do it because they would n't have got a wash otherwise , there was so mu so much to do .
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