Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [adv] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came out here to do a job , Signor de Sciorto … ’ |
| 2 | Even if you do claim you went up there to do him in ! |
| 3 | Laura 's problem was that she had not enough to do — no children , though she had n't said anything about this recently — and his heart smote him because he had undertaken to make her happy , and had n't . |
| 4 | You had much less to do than anything else . |
| 5 | Although this fate , however tragic , would certainly be preferable to possible torture and execution , I know that Leslie himself , who volunteered so often to do something ‘ useful ’ , would have preferred to be killed actually fighting , like Bradford and Fenwick . |
| 6 | The boats picked us up at a pre-arranged rendezvous and we sped off again to do a foot patrol on the lough shore road . |
| 7 | We went out there to do a job and we achieved a lot . |
| 8 | Under de Gaulle they opted almost unanimously to do so . |