Example sentences of "[verb] to do 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | My friends all seem to be organised but all I seem to do is scream at the children and be in a muddle . |
| 12 | Because what we 'll have to do is negotiate at the end of the next session , whenever we 've finished , cos that 's entirely dependent on when we get fed up varies on what |
| 13 | And what we 've tried to do is to look at the national curriculum and try to identify young engineers who could go in and help with design and technology and quite obviously , practice what they preach . |
| 14 | What they are trying to do is to arrive at insights which are generally true of all humanity ( including the anthropologists themselves ) by observing very small-scale examples of human life . |
| 15 | Erm , the point perhaps of , of , of the thing is , it 's called the Team Focus , and hopefully for that very reason what we 're trying to do is to look at the way in which you can improve your performance together if you like , erm , and it would be very interesting to see what Jack and Linda can contribute to this in that , people who 've worked together for sort of six or seven years , erm , ought to be able to show us something . |
| 16 | And then , once we had met , all you had to do was arrive at my home , exclaiming , ‘ Surprise , surprise ! ’ and use your little lever to gain entry into my family . ’ |
| 17 | And then if you want to find out the reason for the tension or how to stop it , what you have to do is look at the interests of those concerned . |
| 18 | What you have to do is look at your T G and close your eyes . |
| 19 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 20 | Erm , what we have to do is to look at , if you like , the way in which A , we can improve what we do erm , and see if we ca n't get more out of the two of you than we do currently , I 'm sure you 'll enjoy what we 're doing . |