Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] do [is] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I want to do is go through a few aspects of your statement , to make sure I 've got them right . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Now what I want to do is go through the blocking today , so that Micky and George can start to feel the shape of the production . |
| 3 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 4 | ‘ All I want to do is get to the bottom of this , ’ she assured me as we entered her office . |
| 5 | What I want to do is concentrate on the modern sex theory and then er explain that and then relate it to Freud . |
| 6 | Now what I want to do is look at what was happening at that time and then try and explain using the determinants of demand what the patterns actually were . |
| 7 | My friends all seem to be organised but all I seem to do is scream at the children and be in a muddle . |
| 8 | All I have to do is think of the most unpleasant thing possible . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ All I have to do is get through the trials , ’ he says with ironic humour . |
| 10 | If your car breaks down or you need to get a taxi home late at night , the last thing you want to do is wander round looking for a phone box . |
| 11 | All you want to do is sit at home and watch TV . |
| 12 | But if all you want to do is sit in the gardens or laze by the pool , they will allow it ! |
| 13 | What you want to do is ring up the Sunday Times and get a reporter round and he 'll get a scandal story and they 'll do something |
| 14 | But it 's very difficult to say to people , ‘ Go back into your offices and rock your handset ’ , because it 's the last thing on your mind , especially after a boring afternoon like this , all you want to do is get in there , do as little as possible and go home ! |
| 15 | Now all you have to do is think of number five for me , cos you just say the number . |
| 16 | All you have to do is throw in your lot with me . |
| 17 | All you have to do is match up the inventor to the invention . |
| 18 | ‘ We only meet about three times a term , ’ one drastically lean lady was telling him ; ‘ and the dates are always fixed well in advance so all you have to do is arrange to be free on that evening . ’ |
| 19 | With the diameter of the sphere measured all you have to do is return to your school days to do a bit of geometry involving pi ( πD ) , which will give you the circumference . |
| 20 | All you have to do is look for your own number er if you if you have hopefully you 've kept a record of the assignments where you 've earned bonus and you can claim it as soon as that number is published . |
| 21 | And then if you want to find out the reason for the tension or how to stop it , what you have to do is look at the interests of those concerned . |
| 22 | What you have to do is look at your T G and close your eyes . |
| 23 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 24 | Adding a coprocessor is relatively easy in that all you have to do is plug in a chip into an empty socket . |
| 25 | To take advantage of this offer , which is available on our 18 month agreement , all you have to do is call into your local Radio Rentals shop with this letter . |
| 26 | All you have to do is tear off the top right hand corner of your envelopes , leaving ¼″ of paper round the stamp . |
| 27 | All you have to do is drive to this place and hold out a hand in friendship . ’ |
| 28 | All you have to do is write to her at the address below to receive a questionnaire ( do n't send any money now ) . |
| 29 | All you have to do is write to her at the address below to receive a questionnaire ( do n't send any money now ) . |
| 30 | You know those skirts you can buy in Liberty 's , the skirts and blouses that all you need to do is zip up the back ? |