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Example sentences of "to do [num ord] " in BNC.

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1	‘ We 've got work to do first , playtime afterwards , ’ said Otley , jumping to his feet .
2	Mind you , it 's not the size of the workload that matters — after all , gardening is supposed to be fun — but the agony of deciding which jobs to do first .
3	He had press conferences to do first and all the ceremony .
4	Like the woman famed in the bairns ' rhyme , ‘ who lived in a shoe , and had so many children she did not know what to do , ’ Martha in her Boat-house kept so many lodgers — the cooking of meals , making of beds , and washing of linen for such a host made her often remark , ‘ I have so much wark , I dinna know what to do first ; ’ and then she had a husband to work for .
5	But there was one thing she wanted to do first .
6	Craftsmen with an eye to the future like Benjamin would be quite likely to make fairly late marriages — there would be a lot of saving up to do first , and the better established one was , the better the chances of attracting a lady of some substance .
7	The Maggot flew me back , because if we want to leave on Sunday morning then we 've got a heap of work to do first .
8	Things to do first .
9	That 's it tha I like the way you did it because that 's a good one to do first the H positive and the O H negative are going to give you the water .
10	I 'll tell you what it I I want you to do first and then you can write it down .
11	‘ But I have a few things to do first .
12	Erm well I think , what they have to do first , is
13	I have a lot of science that I want to do first .
14	He wanted to get on with the job of examining the clothes and , he hoped , identifying the body , but he had another job to do first — to call on the River Police and give them such facts as he had .
15	I had one job to do first thing in the morning — to ring Sir Geoffrey Gillington and ask him to arrange for the manager of the Upper Thames Street branch of the bank to receive Miss Macdonald when she called , and to keep her letter for me .
16	‘ You and I have some serious talking to do first , Miss Lea . ’
17	‘ If that 's where we 're going , Barry , there 's one or two small things we have to do first . ’
18	But there are several things I have to do first . ’
19	And I say I I ca n't , I honestly can not remember what I was doing , I remember the environment one because I got a module written on that erm I remember that I had put in er I want to do first aid and safety in the home sort of thing er , they were three modules that I wanted er , to do .
20	What I 'd like to do first of all is just to summarise wha what we did yesterday .
21	the idea was there and the structure and everything was there it was just that you had n't actually explained what you had to do first , you know , to come back with the erm recommendations erm but you did , you did get the date confirmed to come back for the second appointment which was good .
22	Now what do you want to do first ?
23	He said that 's what you 've got to do first thing Monday morning , find out where that car is , he said , and then you want half the money
24	Well , no you 've got your work to do first .
25	We do n't cater to a large number of students intending to do first school work , it 's , our main interest has been in the middle and secondary school areas .
26	I was now at a bit of a loss as to what to do next , so I wandered upstairs to the room that housed the books covering my subject , just to check up on a few things .
27	‘ Let's get back into familiar territory , then we can think up what to do next . ’
28	What was I going to do next ?
29	Why do n't we go and sit down for a few minutes and then you can decide what you want to do next ? ’
30	As far as the administration is concerned , the debate over what to do next is governed to a large extent by what the American people say they are prepared to sacrifice to force General Noriega to retire or return to the United States to answer drug trafficking charges .