Example sentences of "of [pron] [adv] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tiny minority of landowners lived in enormous wealth and comfort , exacting feudal dues and enforced labour from farmers who had in effect become their tied peasants : these landowners still engaged in the grain trade as their families had done for generations , and as if they could think of nothing else to do . |
| 2 | Nor is it simply looking at them with no further end in mind , which might be the listless action of someone who can think of nothing else to do . |
| 3 | Questions of this switched on and some of them how to do . |
| 4 | She must think of something else to do . |
| 5 | George took his for want of something else to do . |
| 6 | He , Ratagan and Isay were wandering the fortress and taking in the holiday atmosphere for want of something else to do before the feast began . |
| 7 | In any single game , a computer will make enough mistakes to illustrate a whole textbook of what not to do . |
| 8 | After they 've scalded my ears with their abuse for a few weeks , and paraded my wreckage before the assembled ranks as an edifying example of what not to do and how not to do it , they will probably just turn me into a stone gargoyle on the roof of some Gothic cathedral . |
| 9 | The professor who recently returned from an extended visit to Australia and New Zealand said he found very good examples in Australia of what not to do in the field of child welfare . |
| 10 | Unable to think of anything else to do , I suggested to Eileen that we tried regressing her to her childhood . |
| 11 | I could n't think of anything else to do except get out . |
| 12 | I 'll change if I can think of anything else to do , but I ca n't . |