Example sentences of "do [is] [vb infin] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mass unemployment during the 1920s and 1930s modified opinion somewhat , although the economist F. Y. Edgeworth opposed the idea of family allowances in 1922 on the grounds that they would encourage male idleness and quoted approvingly the comment of a social worker in 1908 , who said ‘ if the husband got out of work the only thing that the wife should do is sit down and cry , because if she did anything else he would remain out of work ’ . |
| 2 | What we will now do is go down to S O one eight and we will discover the answer to this , or we will begin to discover the answer to this . |
| 3 | He continued : ‘ With criminal trespass , all they can do is go down on a daily basis and charge people . |
| 4 | So I 've , well what I can do is go down there . |
| 5 | The first thing you should do is write down clearly everything you want . |
| 6 | Said Davenport : ‘ All I want to do is hold down a place in the side . |
| 7 | and just , is it all you have to do is jot down what you want from the terminal |
| 8 | To be in with a chance , all you have to do is settle down with a great big book of pop facts and figures and fill in the empty squares . |
| 9 | To be in with a chance , all you have to do is settle down with a great big book of pop facts and figures and fill in the empty squares . |
| 10 | but I think what we need to do is go down , well Iris and I will go down there , make arrangements will go down , go down the office |
| 11 | I think what you and I ought to do is sit down we ought to list the pros and cons and problems of and look at them afresh and then maybe talk to Tom anyway . |
| 12 | All you need to do is write down the basic outline of the story , with relevant names , departments , and an office-hours telephone number , and pass it on to one of our contact points . |
| 13 | All you have to do is look down for the B numbers , now |
| 14 | All I have to do is push down , the man inside pushes up and the wardrobe slowly comes up like that . |
| 15 | with de-briefings is that what people do is sit down and say what shall we talk about now ? |