Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] be [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drawn this little character and what I intend to do is put this into acid and etch it . |
| 2 | What I want to do is to take all the best elements , like live strings , and recreate them . ’ |
| 3 | Into the Movie Editor , and the first thing I want to do is get that background onto the screen . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Poise was going to be the order of the day — poise and sophistication ; she had taken great care to look the part , now all she had to do was feel that way too . |
| 7 | All you have to do is draw all the little bits of an object and push them all together to make a silhouette of the object and then performing one combine operation joins them all together to make an outline that would take you a lot longer to draw in one piece . |
| 8 | ‘ Look , all you have to do is press this button . |
| 9 | All you have to do is identify those plants and send in your answers on a postcard together with your name and address . |
| 10 | ALL you have to do is enter this competition , courtesy of Cheshire Tourism , is to answer the three simple questions . |
| 11 | All you have to do is to fly that aircraft to Turkey . |
| 12 | Another Xerox All you have to do is find another superproduct with a powerful technology to exploit . |
| 13 | So all you need to do is remember that table which is the same , the same as when you , this is for adding adding or subtracting , and the same table for multiplying or dividing , yeah ? |
| 14 | Well , er , wh what we want to do , what we want to do is to relate this manifest content that you 've told us to what , what 's the other thing ? |
| 15 | The last thing we want to do is broadcast this information . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In our own ignorance all we thought we had to do was to educate these people so ERA also established a ‘ health task force ’ . |
| 18 | On top was the Queen with Princess Anne in a pushchair and Paul McCartney as Dad , and here was one I had near the beginning about being in a space-ship — Brian and me were weightless and floating around , and what we had to do was to get some stability by getting hold of this firework , a sort of Catherine wheel that was going round and round and showering sparks in our faces , so we closed our eyes and a fire-fanged beast roared flames at us and burned a hole in the space-ship and I fell , still with my eyes tight shut , out into the bottomless black void . |
| 19 | All we have to do is send some nice flowers to each of his girlfriends . |
| 20 | So , then all we have to do is make that a statement . |
| 21 | Absolutely not , I think there 's a strong sense in the Party that moving forward with our traditional values , that what we have to do is to apply those traditional values to a very changed world , things are very different now from when the Labour Party was formed , or even from when the Labour Party was last in government , so that we keep our sense of values , they are what grounds us , but what makes us an effective government in the future is the fact that we are moving forward with the times , and the increasing representation of women is one of the things which is about moving us forward , and moving with the times . |
| 22 | If we look at rule six , and we 've all been given rulebooks , if people have brought them with us , what we have to do is bend that rule so that it applies to branches , not members . |
| 23 | look , look , I , I , I 've got to go because I 've got another meeting to go to this evening , erm , what , what I , er what we need to do is to get this laid out clearly as to what our projections ar are |
| 24 | So maybe what we need to do is to pay more for the timber , and be prepared to do that . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 " . |
| 27 | If the big parties do not like it the remedy is in their own hands : all they have to do is to steal that third party 's votes . |
| 28 | Seasonal migrators could in principle orient themselves by a simple sense of direction ; all they need to do is obey some such rule as fly two hundred miles south' or a more complicated series of directions . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Then of course it seemed to have been predetermined all the time . |