Example sentences of "[vb infin] do [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may need to do a complete revision of an existing pedagogical grammar , so that it may be of greater use for the language learning programmes of your colleagues . |
| 2 | In such locations the leader who knows both the congregation and community and is aware of the facets of growth to keep under surveillance may not need to do a formal count . |
| 3 | To give a counter-example : in a long line consisting of two-note groups , you may need to do the opposite and emphasise each second note . |
| 4 | If you think you might possibly enjoy doing a particular exercise , but it is not something terribly exciting , do not write it down . |
| 5 | so I think you could almost enjoy doing a little diagram like that , could n't you ? |
| 6 | And should n't you , you 've done the spare kitchen scissors good ! |
| 7 | In ten years ' time you can choose to do the following : |
| 8 | How could she expect to do a proper job without the right equipment ? |
| 9 | I had been employed at Jersey House for about two and a half years when I was approached to see if I might like to do a little cleaning work to earn some overtime . |
| 10 | I 'd like to do the real thing . ’ |
| 11 | you say that she would n't , she certainly would n't mind doing a follow-up document and |
| 12 | In an amiable parody of an interview he once heard being given by Sir Adrian Boult , Gould spelt out the attitude to recording of that older generation : roughly , ‘ I do n't mind doing the occasional recording , old boy — not everyone gets to concerts — and we 'll do our best , but I do n't want any ‘ patching ’ , we must keep the long line intact ’ . |
| 13 | I do n't want to do a forward roll because that 's what a stuntman does . |
| 14 | Er does everyone want to do a general essay or do people want to do a s a specific thing ? |
| 15 | At this stage we do n't want to do a detailed study as the project may not be viable . |
| 16 | When we 're in the class full of people , and we do n't have the incentive , that we do n't want to do A Level English for it 's own sake , but for another goal which is one further removed . |
| 17 | There was a time when Charles was coasting at school and if I had been working , I would have told him to buckle down — which would have done no good at all . |
| 18 | ‘ I would have done a great deal more , Hilary , ’ he told her seriously . |
| 19 | Hatton could have done a nice little distracting job there . |
| 20 | he might have done a roast dinner and that they |
| 21 | Practising freekicks , with no ball , on no pretext other than looking as if you 'd have done a marvellous job if there had been a ball . |
| 22 | Is not the Minister deeply ashamed that he intends to carry on with that cruel and stupid tax instead of scrapping it , as he should have done a long time ago ? |
| 23 | They must have done a good job and not over ‘ humanised ’ her because her introduction to the chimp group was problem-free . |
| 24 | You may have done a good job on your own patch but you can not clear the entire neighbourhood . |
| 25 | Yet , the people , who might assert this , will not have done a careful costing of royal finances . |
| 26 | ‘ Jamie would never have done a silly thing like climbing up the archway . ’ |
| 27 | I 'd have done I 'd have done a quick , a little man carrying a bag with dollars |
| 28 | Although there was never a great deal of action , at one time the firm must have done a fair trade as old Mr. Talbot was reputed to be a very wealthy man . |
| 29 | It must have done an awful lot of damage everywhere else too . |
| 30 | In both cases , the thing had seemed a sheer impossibility ; he had not thought but known that , being what he was , he was psychologically incapable of doing it ; and then , without any apparent movement of the will , as objective and unemotional as the reading on a dial , there had arisen before him , with perfect certitude , the knowledge ‘ about this time tomorrow , you will have done the impossible ’ . |