Example sentences of "[to-vb] be [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great thing about this holiday club is if all you want to do is laze about in the sun , they 'll let you . |
| 2 | What they need to do is lobby strongly for more women bosses . |
| 3 | He does not require an imperative to make him avoid the sickness from the thought of which he already shrinks in nausea ; what he has to force himself to do is hold on to the fact that sickness is the likely outcome of yielding to temptation . |
| 4 | Said Davenport : ‘ All I want to do is hold down a place in the side . |
| 5 | ‘ The last thing I want to do is break up your friendship . ’ |
| 6 | All you have to do is give up a few square yards of lawn space . |
| 7 | and just , is it all you have to do is jot down what you want from the terminal |
| 8 | To be in with a chance , all you have to do is settle down with a great big book of pop facts and figures and fill in the empty squares . |
| 9 | To be in with a chance , all you have to do is settle down with a great big book of pop facts and figures and fill in the empty squares . |
| 10 | well what I 'd like I think I 'd like people to do is go away and read this and see if it makes any sense when you 've actually sat and studied it . |
| 11 | All they need to do is go up to the loft once a year and shovel them into a polythene bag ; they make excellent compost . |
| 12 | All we 've got to do is go back to London and get Joe to set up a workshop there and work himself silly . |
| 13 | What I 'd like to do is go back to my natural colour . |
| 14 | but I think what we need to do is go down , well Iris and I will go down there , make arrangements will go down , go down the office |
| 15 | know and get , cos lot I 've got his card all you have got to do is go in and say the name |
| 16 | All you ‘ ave to do is go out to the shed at the back of the pub where they pile up them empty crates , and Rose should be with you in a jiffy . ’ |
| 17 | All we want to do is go along and put forward our policies to discuss them in a well-mannered reasoned way . |
| 18 | I , I , what I try to do is switch off erm , and be myself . |
| 19 | So in terms of equality of access to service , just like I was talking about with elderly people , people with families do n't have an equality of access and what we 're trying to do is build up in those other areas those services . |
| 20 | What we need to do is do n't we ? |
| 21 | All you have to do is deduct both amounts from your monthly NI and tax payments . |
| 22 | All you have to do is talk normally , just ignore it |
| 23 | All you want to do is sit home and drink gin . ’ |
| 24 | I think what you and I ought to do is sit down we ought to list the pros and cons and problems of and look at them afresh and then maybe talk to Tom anyway . |
| 25 | All you have to do is sit there . ’ |
| 26 | When a retailer sets up a new business , one of the first things he has to do is draw up a plan of the shop floor . |
| 27 | What I want you to do is shout out as many features of the plan as you can think of , and then in a minute we 'll look at changing them into benefits . |
| 28 | The discount is on all massage treatment and courses — all you have to do is bring along this copy of RUNNING MAGAZINE and quote your race number . |
| 29 | If you are keen to do some racing at a local club , the best thing to do is check out which classes have strong fleets in your area . |
| 30 | The first thing to do is sort out the basis of the young artists ’ business . |