Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] be [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Into the Movie Editor , and the first thing I want to do is get that background onto the screen . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll ignore that last bit , Myra ; all I want to do is get this apology for a holiday over and get back to work . ’ |
| 3 | The last thing we want to do is broadcast this information . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The practice of nurses working flexible hours , which is largely controlled by the needs of the nursing team , has to date been given little attention . |
| 6 | It was understood that the car was one reported to have been stolen some days earlier from a car park in Colchester . |
| 7 | The procedure adopted has been to allow all models to have six degrees of freedom with respect to their adjoining member . |
| 8 | And he drew it out actually , remember he 's only six , seven years old and what he 'd done was to put this spring loaded hanger into the back of the tube and he 'd made a kind of trigger with a little , little plastic peg , and he said here 's your gun ! |
| 9 | One moment Angel One had been crouched motionless as a carved statue , the next he seemed to have been transposed several feet nearer in the blink of an eye , like a faulty sequence in some badly cut movie . |
| 10 | Almost at once Ruth felt as if she were sliding into a dream ; the glade vanished behind them , and soon she seemed to have been walking this path all her life , through the vista of trees , with the tip of Fand 's spear faintly gleaming , and Adam ahead of her , treading like a king . |
| 11 | Finally , a work-based Certificate in Funeral Directing has been introduced this year . |
| 12 | All the Tories needed to win was to play those interviews back as party political broadcasts . |
| 13 | So we 'll do , let's just split into two groups , one group to have a look at aggressive people , one group to have a look at passive and what I 'd like to do is identify any groups . |
| 14 | It what it tends to do is to encourage more traffic to come into Knaresborough on the main road as opposed to the two secondary roads . |
| 15 | Er all he 's got to do is score more goals . |
| 16 | Erm could we give out the , the handout cos I think I 'd like them to refer to this on the All you 've got to do is write these things down , cos you 've , cos you 've got most of this on the way through . |
| 17 | I did do that along with Ron and er they were speaking in terms of er a conjurer at under a pound a time and thing of that nature which should then come to a the pensioner 's category at Poole , so I took it back to Stuart and he said oh see what I can do Norman , and at the present moment it rests there because I have n't been able to contact Stuart at the moment owed to the holiday , but I shall be contacting him and hopefully we will also be doing two days , which is the Tuesday and the Thursday , also what they , er , he 's , he 's promised to do is to come half way with the cost of the jazz band , which is a great help . |
| 18 | The 38 lenders are also thought to have been told that trading is worse than at any time since the current owner took over in the late 1980s . |
| 19 | It belonged to a huge and beautiful seal who said she just happened to have been drawn that way . |
| 20 | The " Big Book " of alcoholics Anonymous describes some unfortunate people as being " naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty " and says that " they are not at fault ; they seem to have been born that way " . |
| 21 | The preceding sentence , " They are not at fault ; they " seem to have been born that way " is itself an honest acceptance that addictive disease is stronger in some people than in others and that the acceptance of defeat and the wish " to go to any lengths " to get into recovery is ultimately a personal decision for each sufferer and not something that can be imposed by anyone else . |
| 22 | Erm which would give you some contact with erm , er you know people who 'd er er just come out of prison or , or you know had been serving some sort of sentence or other , you know , maybe not a custodial one or something . |
| 23 | The money that the Minister has provided has been recycled more times than I can count — although he talks about it as if it were new money — and it will run out in April , but there is still no commitment to replace it . |
| 24 | The first thing she would have to do was to raise some capital so that she could rescue something from the dregs of her father 's business . |
| 25 | They have always been a club with potential , and that potential appears to have been realised this season . |
| 26 | Yes , I think for a lot of people that 's true and I do n't denigrate that because I think a lot of good work goes on in the Women 's Institute , but what we are particularly interested in is in the professional craftsman , the craftsman who has trained for a number of year to produce extremely good work , and what we try to do is to make that work more available to the public in a number of ways . |
| 27 | All we 've been asked to do is secure this ship until help arrives ; which should n't be longer than this time tomorrow . |
| 28 | The most difficult part of learning to read is learning that learning to read is worth the effort involved , and of being aware of the rewards of reading . |
| 29 | What you have started to do is to create this place of support and satisfaction in yourself : you 've begun to make room in your mind for your writer-self . |
| 30 | and what repression tries to do is to plug those holes and to keep the repressed repressed . |