Example sentences of "thing do in " in BNC.
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| 1 | So perhaps they would have made the same mistakes as well. , He believes his most serious mistake was wanting to get things done in a hurry . |
| 2 | Any spontaneous pull to which he yields ( for example , a proneness due to laziness to exaggerate the difficulty of getting things done in time for the earlier flight ) will merely bias his judgement ; in the pure choice of means you either choose rationally or surrender to the spontaneous . |
| 3 | As very small children , too , we had lots of time to get things done in the same pattern . |
| 4 | Success required dogged determination , academic ability , money , plenty of patience for dealing with the state bureaucracy and some useful contacts or ‘ guanxi ’ , i.e. connections with people in positions of responsibility who could help , which was becoming an increasingly important way of getting things done in China . |
| 5 | The reason I 'm standing up here cos your not get things done in this town I 'm sorry it is the only way of saying something . |
| 6 | ‘ Any duty imposed on any person by any of the preceding provisions of this Article shall extend only to things done in the course of a trade , business or other undertaking carried on by him ( whether for profit or not ) and to matters within his control . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ There were often terrible panics about getting things done in time , ’ Jane recalled , ‘ but Laura would never let things fuss you . |
| 8 | But we got , we got the things done in that respect . |
| 9 | ‘ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ ’ the minister warned them ; ‘ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The whole point of being a Minister is you can get things done in Whitehall . |
| 11 | Because another way in which I had to throw good money after bad was that after he died once I started having things done in the house they kept on turning up things that he had done that were absolutely N B G |
| 12 | Things done in one . |
| 13 | If you can get Neil Kinnock in , and by George , you 'd get them things done in your house ! |
| 14 | I I hope this is not a mischievous comment , but I I think it 's very questionable , whether the Christian faith would be known as it is today , down two thousand years , had it not been for an innocent man , Jesus , being unjustly punished and crucified , and so many of the great reformers in the history of man , men and women have died or suffered grave imprisonment because of injustice , and in a paradoxical way , injustice in a way , yo you almost seem as if we need injustice to drive us on , to get things done in a , in a better way . |
| 15 | It 's really getting things done in , in a like a , I du n no , a disciplined manner , like an ordered man , so each , what to do the , we discuss what we , what we 've got an action plan together and where it 's fired at so it does work . |
| 16 | There 's things to do in London . |
| 17 | There 's no shortage of things to do in Leeds , whether you 're after high culture or street cool . |
| 18 | This chapter gives you some ideas for informal things to do in the Home , organised outings and activities which may also have a special therapy value , like reminiscence . |
| 19 | You 'll never be short of things to do in Dublin — whether it 's shopping in its modern centre , or simply relaxing over a Guinness in one of the city 's excellent pubs . |
| 20 | And I remember one time he gave me a list of things to do in the morning — fill this with potatoes , put the beans up on the shelves , brush the yard and then you can go out . |
| 21 | The Mainbocher triumphs were spiced with occasional purchases in Paris , but on the whole she found French clothes too imposing : ‘ I had better things to do in Paris than go for endless fittings anyway . |
| 22 | Then a woman in the street — the Via Monserato , between the Tiber and the Farnese Square , they talked about it so much , Mena and my grandmother , when I was little , I think they talked about it every day : Il Quartiere Papale , it does have a magnificent sound , has n't it ? and so much of it a slum ; the rich live above on the piani nobili , the ground floors and cellars are rented out to artisans ; my mother , who was brought up in those streets , says to know them you must have breathed the air in the evenings when the wine-shops are full and they are lighting charcoal braziers on the pavements ; she says I will go one day , but I think I know already — well , a woman in Mena 's street who sold salad greens knew the cook who worked for Anna and the prince round the corner and Mena was given things to do in the kitchen . |
| 23 | He can not work but wants interesting things to do in the day time . |
| 24 | One respondent reported that ‘ recruitment to arts INSET courses was almost invariably poor , being viable only when concerned with things to do in the primary classroom at Christmas ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , ’ he said finally , ‘ I 've a few more things to do in the garden . |
| 26 | lt was very hard to find things to do in Sweden . |
| 27 | Oh I ca n't I 've got things to do in the office , a busy company here . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've got things to do in the dispensary . ’ |
| 29 | Erm I , I 'd like to see what Peter would like to see actually , I think we ought to see the whole thing done in one fell swoop . |
| 30 | I tried not to think about it , which is the only thing to do in such a situation . ’ |