Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] to do [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You need to sheet out considerably to slow down and then sheet in again to do the turn . |
| 2 | … We bend over backwards to do the thing [ properly ] … but what happens in practice — do we mean it ? |
| 3 | I came out here to do a job , Signor de Sciorto … ’ |
| 4 | I stayed up late to clear things up , and got up early to do the same thing . |
| 5 | I think he was brought in just to do a good production job . ’ |
| 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 | Any question of taking her into Penzance had to be abandoned and Harriet went off alone to do the weekly shopping , thankful to be able to leave Edna in charge of Celia and trying not to feel guilty that she actually preferred such expeditions without her daughter 's company . |
| 8 | We went out there to do a job and we achieved a lot . |
| 9 | I was busy cooking , blissing out on the aroma of cod in a yoghurt and fresh coriander sauce , and was n't really listening , but through the vapours there penetrated the fact that in Derbyshire they were queuing up recently to do a route on Raven Tor which is ‘ easy 8a , ’ in order to get into a book which David Jones has assembled on climbers — particularly those who can climb 8a . |