Example sentences of "to do is [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The last thing I want to do is break up your friendship . ’ |
| 2 | All you have to do is give up a few square yards of lawn space . |
| 3 | All they need to do is go up to the loft once a year and shovel them into a polythene bag ; they make excellent compost . |
| 4 | I think they believe that all they have to do is to turn up and they 'll beat the rest of us . |
| 5 | So in terms of equality of access to service , just like I was talking about with elderly people , people with families do n't have an equality of access and what we 're trying to do is build up in those other areas those services . |
| 6 | In suggesting ways in which the shifting structures of repetition and difference can be traced , what it has attempted to do is to open up some new contexts , both theoretical and institutional , in which texts and genres can be thought , and to reopen some old points of difficulty which still serve as sticking-points against the slide into accommodation . |
| 7 | That 's fine , now all we 've got to do is to tidy up this end of the halyard and tuck it out of the way . |
| 8 | What you do n't want to do is run up an overdraft in the hope no one will notice . |
| 9 | If you decide at the end of the day the thing to do is to pick up this kid and run like hell for somewhere you can gain , wave for help , or put him in the car and drive like mad to the hospital , then you might just do that , even though it breaks all the golden rules of first aid |
| 10 | Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our |
| 11 | When a retailer sets up a new business , one of the first things he has to do is draw up a plan of the shop floor . |
| 12 | All you need to do is to draw up the pattern shapes to full size on to brown paper and use this as a pattern for your cloth . |
| 13 | So what we are aiming to do is to set up more joint projects , like the one on financial instruments , where we have been working very closely with Canada . |
| 14 | The first thing we need to do is to set up the vertical grid on the page . |
| 15 | To get Emily Patrick to paint you , the first thing to do is to brush up on your telephone manner . |
| 16 | ‘ What we need to do is set up a regular lunch date so everyone knows what 's happening . |
| 17 | Erm but what we will have to do is set up our local procedures as regards agents queries and things like that in both countries , both with and also whatever you decide in Denmark of how we run the procedure but that can be something later but what we 'll need to do is no doubt before we actually do the distribution to the agents and the erm the information out to them th why we 're going into on our own as opposed to being served by the other carriers . |
| 18 | All they seem to want to do is to dig up bits about Paul 's past . |
| 19 | Erm the other thing I 'd like you to do is adding up all all the numbers that make ten . |
| 20 | All you have to do is pick up a pen , or phone and send your first ten pounds . |
| 21 | If you have a view on that O nine O four six four one six four one and I 'd like to hear from you all you have to do is pick up the phone and give me a f a call now sorry . |
| 22 | Yes , everybody , O K , now I 'll pay the phone bill , all I want you to do is pick up the phone and every time you pick up the phone and make an attempt to get me an appointment , I 'll give you a pound . |
| 23 | All I have to do is turn up and see the applicants , ’ she said . |
| 24 | All you have to do is turn up at the address shown between midday and 7pm . |
| 25 | All you have to do is turn up . |
| 26 | All you have to do is turn up at the surgery of the doctor of your choice and ask to be registered . |
| 27 | All the promoters have to do is turn up with the act . |
| 28 | Young sailors from all over the country will be on the water at Farmoor just outside Oxford this weekend to compete in the Thames Water Youth Regatta … there 's racing both days … along with trials for England and the chance to have a go in a boat or on a sailboard for the first time … all you have to do is turn up … |
| 29 | Why are you sitting around complaining — when all you have to do is get up , introduce yourselves , and start something new ? |
| 30 | The first thing to do is get up as quickly as possible , so practise falling down in all directions and jumping up again as fast as you can — until the whole movement becomes automatic . |