Example sentences of "do be [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing the three must do is disentangle themselves from the past . |
| 2 | What the court must do is place itself in thought in the same factual matrix as that of the parties ( Reardon Smith Line Ltd v Hansen-Tangen [ 1976 ] 3 All ER 570 ) . |
| 3 | What he has done is to supply himself with a ridiculous experience by the telling of which he could entertain several hundred people , without having to undergo the dispiriting strain of suffering it first . |
| 4 | No , the best he could do was to fortify himself with the Nielson family , and wait a century or two . |
| 5 | If GA pilots want to get more out of AIS , what they need to do is familiarise themselves with Skymaster and ask AIS for what they want . |
| 6 | All you have to do is commit yourself to it . |
| 7 | ‘ What I 'm not prepared to do is commit myself to the club beyond that , until such time as a final plan , which I understand from the chairman was agreed in principle by all directors on Saturday night , has been formally ratified by all board members . |
| 8 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 9 | All I have to do is position myself against the banner . |
| 10 | You have to sympathise , because all he wants to do is establish himself in his own right , in his own style and ultimately be recognised for that . |
| 11 | So , at one level , all the idea of ‘ metacriticism ’ does is to remind ourselves of what we ordinarily take higher education to be . |