Example sentences of "to do [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She became depressed at not knowing what to do for the best , and at leading the life of a whore . |
| 32 | Determination to deal with the situation " properly and once and for all " but coupled with the confusion of not knowing precisely what to do for the best , particularly in the face of vast quantities of advice all of which seems perfectly clear — except that it directly conflicts with other equally vast and equally clear advice from other sources . |
| 33 | Just vanish , leaving her not knowing what to do for the best . |
| 34 | When confronted with a small garden for the first time , its often difficult to know what to do for the best . |
| 35 | She 'll tell me , all right , and then we can go from there and decide what to do for the best . |
| 36 | ‘ For once , not Rosemary , though I 'm getting more and more desperate about not knowing what to do for the best , ’ he confessed , but went on to explain , ‘ I spent a lot of time yesterday in realising that I must have been a real wet blanket when Naylor announced your engagement on Saturday . ’ |
| 37 | And what to do for the best . |
| 38 | I said I du n no what to do for the best so , I just leave things the way they are and er hopefully that er you get some warm days where you need n't have the fire on , so you do n't have fumes you know |
| 39 | Plenty to do for the young and elderly including windsurfing , sailing , bowls , tennis and horse riding . |
| 40 | Our connection for the prison camp did not leave until 11 o'clock and the Feldwebel was wondering what to do for the next two hours when the air raid siren blew . |
| 41 | So , what we 're going to do for the next four months is look at the anatomy of a PC . |
| 42 | What I 'd like to do for the next twenty minutes of the er of the seminar is talk about client server today . |
| 43 | They are the editors , they 're not the sole authors so each chapter has a different author erm and like all books some are stronger than others but what I would like you to do for the next , by the time we meet next time , that 's on Monday the next lecture , please have read chapters one and two of that book . |
| 44 | What do you want to do for the next two weeks ? |
| 45 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that the greatest service he can continue to do for the British public is to keep inflation below 5 per cent ? |
| 46 | After training as an actress , she taught herself to paint , which she has continued to do for the past thirty years . |
| 47 | As one of the group put it : ‘ It made people think about what they wanted to do for the whole year . ’ |
| 48 | Anything else we have to do for the open day ? |
| 49 | This is exactly the difference : a poor conductor often does not know what to do after the third rehearsal , he has nothing more to say , he is more easily satisfied , because he does not have the capacity for further discrimination , and because nothing in him imposes higher requirements . |
| 50 | As they try tomorrow to do against the brilliant Brazilians what was beyond them against the amateurish Americans , the Liverpool new boy is reminded of Nottingham Forest 's brave battle against relegation . |
| 51 | Munson , whose previous first team outings had been confined to a handful of pre-season friendlies , may well get his chance of a Football League debut before the end of the season , but had little to do against the Norwegian Division Three champions . |
| 52 | What the local authority wished to do under the interim care order was assess the mother with these children and protect the children so far as the father was concerned . |
| 53 | ‘ What is key is to get evidence from the crew as soon as possible and that we were able to do under the marine accident investigation system . |
| 54 | This she continued to do into the thirties . |
| 55 | I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ? |
| 56 | Having released a highly successful book of Russian posters the renowned publisher Aurora , which publishes books for export , does not know what to do with the rich reserve of editorial material it has accumulated over recent years , and it has been forced to sell transparencies and texts . |
| 57 | His reasons had much to do with the continuous hounding by London journalists . |
| 58 | The crimes which had been committed were manifestly the work of hardened professionals who had no more to do with the incestuous dramas of this city than Zen himself . |
| 59 | Moreover , it tended to present a view of practice as constituted largely of issues to do with the visual appearance of classrooms and matters of organization relating to children 's grouping . |
| 60 | She finds it hard to explain why , but ponders that it may have something to do with the religious faith she grew up with . |