Example sentences of "they [verb] to do be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as Ray said , all they got to do is query it have n't they . |
| 2 | All they got to do is have faith . |
| 3 | All they want to do is make sure it does n't blow up into anything . ’ |
| 4 | Once they 've completed their trip all they want to do is head off back home and they simply do n't devote the time , energy and money on clearing up . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Those boys are the type of boys , all they want to do is put in their eight hours and go home . |
| 7 | At an emotional meeting earlier this week , Terry told me ‘ I 've lost touch with the modern game , Les , nobody seems to be interested in drinking these days , all they want to do is get on with the football . ’ |
| 8 | food , they 're , they 're non food people , they do n't wan na go , all they want to do is get something in their stomachs , we do n't , when we go oh I like to eat the culture , I like the |
| 9 | ‘ All that Wordsworthian waffle , and then when you meet the people all they want to do is hop on the bus and off to the nearest bright lights . ’ |
| 10 | Playing an active game can over-excite children to the point that all they want to do is play the game . |
| 11 | Girls often become very close to their mothers , consequently the last thing they want to do is to bring any form of unhappiness to their lives . |
| 12 | ah because the annual report this year is all they want to do is plug er three or four little topics that we 've done er on a thematic basis . |
| 13 | All they seem to do is target the ones at the hospitals , the police , the fire brigade , everything . |
| 14 | What they seem to do is indicate , often in very complex ways , just how the utterance that contains them is a response to , or a continuation of , some portion of the prior discourse . |
| 15 | What they needed to do was to look in Milton 's Collected Poems or in an anthology such as The Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse , rather than expecting individual titles all to be listed separately in the catalogue . ) |
| 16 | All they had to do was to take the bung out of the barrel , top off the level until they were ready to move them . |
| 17 | They thought that all they had to do was accommodate people . |
| 18 | All they had to do was hit a tiny fraction of the total available and they were in business . |
| 19 | All they had to do was indicate the points in the text at which the language created an effect of surprise ; the task of the stylistician was then to analyze the contrast , between the linguistic structure of the device and that of its immediate context , that accounted for this effect of surprise . |
| 20 | Perhaps the Gaskells behaved like outsiders but the community was there , ready and open to them ; all they had to do was to slip into the place that was offered . |
| 21 | The last thing they wish to do is to squash and destroy a child 's individuality . |
| 22 | They are doubly attracted when it is clear to them that any movement will be all one way , and where all they have to do is to bide their time and wait for the inevitable profits . |
| 23 | A radio paging system means staff can be bleeped when needed , all they have to do is go to the nearest intercom substation and they are straight through to reception or the management office . |
| 24 | Many would-be newspaper lensmen might assume that before each job the photographer gets a very precise brief from someone like Dermot O'Shea , and that all they have to do is to go off and get the shot . |
| 25 | I think they believe that all they have to do is to turn up and they 'll beat the rest of us . |
| 26 | All they have to do is erase the magical circle , which they can do simply by rubbing out a few inches of the chalk with a rag or cloth . |
| 27 | All they have to do is to hold out against substandard systems and apply pragmatic criteria in the face of technical jargon . |
| 28 | ‘ Many people believe that depression is something that the sufferer brings on themselves and all they have to do is pull themselves together , ’ explained Sean O'Reilly of Aware . |
| 29 | Deputy Prime Minister Narcís Serra Serra said on July 11 : " The only thing that they have to do is to stop killing . " |
| 30 | Oh it is a lot easier cos that all they have to do is run on , drop 'em come off again . |