Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [adv] [vb pp] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this last is precisely what Mr Lawson has long wanted to do and the Prime Minister absolutely forbidden . |
| 2 | OSF had originally planned to do the work internally , after none of its members or founders volunteered , scared off by IBM 's experience integrating DME 's companion piece DCE , the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 3 | COSE has also agreed to do a plenary-style panel a la UniForum that should attempt a general statement of intent , an update and try to clear up any COSE confusion . |
| 4 | COSE has also agreed to do a plenary-style panel a la Uniforum that should attempt a general statement of intent , an update and hopefully try to clear up the COSE confusion — see back page . |
| 5 | In contrast , Kiki Smith does not succumb to the convenience of de-humanising the female figure in order to express her protest , if not horror , as Cindy Sherman has lately chosen to do . |
| 6 | Her senior by fourteen years , she had been a splendid nursemaid and even after marriage , while rearing her own family , Edna had still managed to do part-time cleaning and a weekly wash in the Tremayne household . |
| 7 | Well I think what Mr is really saying is that the Conservative round Dorset , in er , the first sort of , I do n't know , six decades of this cen this century were rather more sensible than the Conservatives who ran Wiltshire at the same time , because they made sure they acquired some assets they could flog for development , and put themselves in this happy position , which the ones in Wiltshire had obviously failed to do . |
| 8 | Though Locke did go in for some experimental work , his main contribution to the ethos of the Society was to do what Bacon had quite failed to do . |
| 9 | In other words , the Church recognised Constantine as successfully achieving what Jesus had signally failed to do . |
| 10 | The Western banks regarded Romania as a good risk : cynically , they judged that Ceauşescu would keep the lid on the pot in Romania in a way that Gierek had manifestly failed to do in Poland . |
| 11 | Miss Mates had already sped to do his bidding , giving Sally-Anne one last sympathetic squeeze of the hand before she left her . |
| 12 | Boyd had not promised to do this , though he had said he would go to see the principal to straighten out the question of his leaving . |
| 13 | Soon because we just We 've nearly finish I 've nearly finished doing peop Well Bill 's still got to do Diane , I 've got to do Cath and then we 're ready to start . |
| 14 | And that is what Mr Clarke has now agreed to do . |
| 15 | It was the first time in his life that he had slept out of doors ; as a boy , he and Jean-Paul had often pleaded to do this , and it had always been forbidden . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's not the sort of work Super Mario has ever had to do , but I feel a little more patriotic about this than any of my other jobs , ’ he says . |
| 17 | According to Neale , Elizabeth had originally wished to do no more than reintroduce her father 's national church , but was pressured into a more radical programme by Protestants in the House of Commons , who insisted on the adoption of the 1552 Prayer Book . |
| 18 | Well as Michael says , we 're not proud of the results er , and we 're not going to try and dress them up , Michael has n't tried to do that and I certainly do n't intend to . |