Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] be [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I 'm dying to know is does the tribe remember ? |
| 2 | But this follows a year of debate about strategy during which some senior ICI board members appeared unhappy about the way Sir Denys has been running the firm . |
| 3 | Now , what Mr has moved is to defer the matter , and I 'm in mind of to accept that . |
| 4 | But if we , what she has done is soured the relationship with us |
| 5 | What Jerison has done is to reconstruct the probable EQs of extinct animals that now exist only as fossils . |
| 6 | Mr McNeill said he has had been reading the Belfast Telegraph for years and enjoys doing the crossword first , perusing the television viewing and then gets around to reading the news . |
| 7 | What the formula has to do is to compare the title of the project in column B ( which has been left blank until this point ) with the column labels in columns F , G , H and so on . |
| 8 | If the 2-DG injected into the bloodstream is radioactive , radioactive 2-DG6P accumulates , and all one then has to do is measure the radioactivity in the cell . |
| 9 | All that Mr. Millan has to do is to release the money and it will be spent . |
| 10 | Most CAD installations in the UK are turnkey units — so-called because they come complete and all the buyer has to do is turn the key and start learning . |
| 11 | All the angler has to do is raise the point of his rod , and the fish hooks itself . |
| 12 | All that the operator has to do is to insert the specimen , watch the machine break it , then divide the recorded breaking load by the area of the cross-section at fracture , which is easily measured . |
| 13 | Blackburn ace Fogarty said last night : ‘ All Kevin has to do is point the bike towards Coleraine or Portstewart , open the tap , and he will be out of sight . |
| 14 | All she has to do is slip the Mickey Mouse earrings in the pocket , smooth down her short hair so that it looks less like Just William and more like Tony Slattery , and the personality change is complete . |
| 15 | She 's just got him out of prison after making all that money and going through all that shit for him , he finally comes home , and all he wants to do is watch the match on the telly . |
| 16 | The reason for this is that each party can count on the votes of its committed supporters ; what each wants to do is to capture the votes of those perceived as occupying the middle ground between the parties . |
| 17 | Mm , we 'll rough it for a while , because I know the downers , the only thing that Mike wants to do is put the fence and the gate up the side |
| 18 | When the process is complete , the outgoing prime minister goes straight to the Palace and formally tenders his resignation ; the most he needs to do is inform the monarch , who will have been given the figures already , that the ballot has produced a given result , probably adding that in his view the newly elected leader can command a majority in Parliament . |
| 19 | Kruger favours pen-based machines because he says they make life easier for the user — all he needs to do is ring the bit of text he wants to file away for future reference , and his computer will store it away on hard disk . |
| 20 | All the slimmer needs to do is to eat the delicious contents with a slice of bread and some milk . |
| 21 | I think from the work load point of view from Jenny the thing she needs to do is to write the little bit on T G I that references the manual to make sure that the manual is okay . |
| 22 | WHEN London friends come and spend the day with me in Hastings , the first thing they all want to do is sample the fish and chips . |
| 23 | The last thing I want to do is break the spell . |
| 24 | Er and basically what I want to do is to put the winner , the winning e exhibition into the new reception area , for the new erm office at Ruddington when it opens . |
| 25 | Almost as though explaining the normal techniques to a med student , he said patiently , ‘ You know , Laddie , that what I want to do is restore the affected joint to its proper position of function . ’ |
| 26 | All I want to do is finish the London under 4:20 , perhaps with some help from your magazine . |
| 27 | Arrest and imprisonment would be the ultimate and tragic irony for Rod Jones , a man whose aims in Romania are simple : ‘ All I want to do is give the children a second chance . ’ |
| 28 | That first holiday away is a magical occasion , and the last thing you want to do is share the magic with a hotel load of families and grannies . |
| 29 | And so erm , the youth bus is , is trying to fill that gap , it 's not ideal , because what we actually want to do is get the advice centre to provide some information and to look at ways they can open up to young people . |
| 30 | Therefore what I want to do is to seek the support of the factories to er spread the word , to circulate the information necessary to all the schools in the area . |