Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] be [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout her self-pitying monologue ( for which she received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination ) , all Dustin has to do is stare at her while his moustache droops in sympathy . |
| 2 | All Gorby has to do is sit at a desk , saying nothing . |
| 3 | So what the philosopher has to do is to look at these , all these various factors and begin to try and make people conscious of the inadequacies of the way in which they live , and of the new possibilities which are open to them , if they will only project their minds outside the established bounds . |
| 4 | Evan 's angry and embarrassed , Nic 's sullen beyond belief , there 's a rammed , expectant club waiting for them to play , and all they want to do is moan at their manager ( who also works for Nirvana ) back in the States . |
| 5 | All you want to do is sit at home and watch TV . |
| 6 | and what I want to do is to look at it er over that particular period so I can explain everything to you in full because there are benefits to you in terms of tax savings |
| 7 | The notion that you have a group of children that you can categorize , say like partially sighted , or maladjusted , or educationally subnormal , and that they should have a special education , is one that 's been increasingly challenged over the years and I think the Warnock Report actually moves considerably away from that notion and says no , we do n't want to separate off a particular group because they appear to have a single erm or even a multiple disability , what we want to do is to look at the needs of each individual child and ask what is it about that particular child that makes the achievement of education objectives more difficult than another child . |
| 8 | Now what I want to do is look at what was happening at that time and then try and explain using the determinants of demand what the patterns actually were . |
| 9 | so we want to do is look at that one and we see that it 's keeping on track and er it 's doing the things that we actually want to do |
| 10 | The first woman reported to have been burned at stake for having sex with the devil was a citizen of Toulouse , who met her fate in 1275 after apparently giving birth to a child with the head of a wolf and a tail like a snake . |
| 11 | Its most likely period of operation is between 300 and 325 , whereafter some of its craftsmen appear to have been employed at Withington , and . |
| 12 | 18.2 Any such notice shall be in the English language and shall be considered to have been given at the time when actually delivered , sent by telefax or telex or in any other event within 14 ( fourteen ) days after it was mailed in the manner hereinbefore provided . |
| 13 | Wilko was reported to have been looking at Ronnie earlier this season but nothing came of it . |
| 14 | " Tipped , " Timothy Gedge said , the word appearing to have been chosen at random . |
| 15 | Generally service is deemed to have been effected at the time the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post ( s 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 ) . |
| 16 | Service may be effected on the solicitor : ( 1 ) if by delivering the document at , or sending it by first-class post to the solicitor 's address for service , service by post is deemed to have been effected at the time the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post ( s 7 of the Interpretations Act 1978 ) : or ( 2 ) where the solicitor 's address for service includes a numbered box at a document exchange in a county court , and the document is left at that exchange or at an exchange which transmits daily to the first exchange , it is then deemed to have been served on the second day after the day on which it was left , but any day on which the court office in which one or both exchanges is situated is shut shall not be taken into account ( Ord 1 , r 3 ; Ord 2 , r 5(1A) ; Ord 7 , rr 1(1) ( b ) , 1(3) , and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 17 | The air seemed to have been cleared at last and evening surgery raised their spirits even more . |
| 18 | Sir Hector claimed that the £120,000 loss seemed to have been arrived at by applying the £2.25 HLCA reduction to most of the sheep flock . |
| 19 | The overall increase of 2.1 per cent — compared with 2 per cent in grants from the Arts Council in England and Wales — was said to have been achieved at the expense of the SAC 's running costs , which will be limited to an increase of 1.5 per cent . |
| 20 | There were reports of atrocities by gunmen in Bardera , where 10 people were said to have been murdered at a feeding centre , and of intensified banditry at Kismayu port , ahead of the troops ' arrival . |
| 21 | But now I 'm glad , glad and thankful and almost forgiving … because all you 're going to do is play at soldiers twice a week . |
| 22 | My friends all seem to be organised but all I seem to do is scream at the children and be in a muddle . |
| 23 | , Richard ( fl. 1572–1596 ) , navigator and privateer , claimed to have been born at Buckhurst , Essex , but is generally referred to as ‘ of Weymouth ’ . |
| 24 | Food for more than 100 guests at two wedding receptions was alleged to have been prepared at the kitchen . |
| 25 | As judicial proceedings are thought to have been held at prominent landmarks , legal decisions could have been held at prominent landmarks , legal decisions could have been made in the vicinity of Loyal centuries ago . |
| 26 | Many are thought to have been buried at the time of the Great Plague . |
| 27 | The lavas may conceal the uppermost , epithermal precious metal zone ( thought to have been removed at Lagalochan ) intact at relatively shallow depth . |
| 28 | One interesting relic of Seagoe 's distant past is the Cloch Bann , an ancient bronze handbell thought to have been used at funerals . |
| 29 | A fifth , mid-century , scribe wrote the calendar , the verses and the Chronicle entries down to 490 , and a sixth the annals probably to the end of 1048 ; those to 1044 seem to have been written at one time , while changes in the appearance of the script suggest that subsequent entries were made year by year . |
| 30 | The result , stretching west from Hedeby , whose semicircular defences also seem to have been renewed at this time , was a rampart over eight miles long , about thirteen yards wide , and nearly ten feet high , not counting the wooden palisade with which it was presumably crowned . |