Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] to do " in BNC.

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1 Only he had to do it every day .
2 There was the usual Park — Reverse — Neutral Drive pattern , but if he wanted to control the gear changes himself all he had to do was move the gear lever across the bottom of the gate , while in Drive .
3 The court did not inquire into the nature of his departure from the instructions , and said that as a quasi-arbitrator all he had to do was to act honestly .
4 All he had to do to seal his England career was pop in a two , a few goals like he does at Palace
5 All he has to do is show he 's over a certain age can prove who he is , you can buy a gun .
6 All he has to do Abu Dabi
7 In two modern cases , however , it has been held that so long as the donor has done all he needs to do , the beneficial interest passes from him to the donee .
8 All he needs to do is to do a photocopy
9 It was irritating how easily he seemed to do several things at once .
10 Moving closer to home , on the offence of causing death by dangerous or drunken driving , the hon. Member for Huddersfield referred to the Road Traffic Act 1991 , whereby an offender will be found guilty if he drives dangerously , thereby causing someone 's death , whether or not he intended to do so or even knew about it .
11 Unemployment has risen by nearly 1 million in the time that the hon. Gentleman has been Chancellor and Prime Minister , but still he refuses to do anything useful to stop that remorseless rise .
12 If ever he manages to do this , he concludes , he hopes he will have a patron of similar eminence .
13 If ever he tried to do more — to hop or semi-fly down towards them to try to catch them — they simply darted away and out of reach .
14 Lukic , whenever he decided to do something with a cross , punched it .
15 Now he planned to do the same with the female cub , who had been given the most unleopard-like name of Harriet .
16 Everything out on the floor and now , and now he has to do it , so he did it now , it 's still there like .
17 Every so often he gets to do the movie 's Grand Canyon metaphor , musing on the sort of terribly big , terribly ancient landmark beside which humans dwindle to the size and importance of scurrying ants .
18 ‘ Luftwaffe pilot , but even he had to do it from Canada into the States before they were in the war . ’
19 However , the scope of a fiduciary 's duties in any given circumstances will depend upon the nature of the relationship and what precisely he undertakes to do on behalf of his customer .
20 Oh probably just did it Do you know what Terry 's do you know what one of my children did today ? do you know what did apart from the fact he spent all day crying then he had to do the corrections , I said go back and do your corrections , said right on your own I wrote something that went no homework done , so he wrote no homework done , no homework done , no homework done !
21 If the man is arguing prices , then he wants to do a deal .
22 It was the road was still there he had to do it and they were put there by the government .
23 ‘ He said the surgeons asked him how he learnt to do such a good job and he said it was in the army . ’
24 I asked John how he planned to do this shot and he said , ‘ Simple .
25 I do not intend to say much about how he proposes to do this , or about the background in nineteenth-century intellectual history which accounts for his finding the picture attractive .
26 But since it has proved notoriously difficult for determinists to account for the emergence of new and revolutionary ideas , it would surely be wise of Althusser to show how he proposes to do it .
27 She wondered hysterically how he proposed to do that .
28 Exactly how he intends to do this , and how such an attempt will fit into his strategy to bring inflation under control , remain a mystery .
29 ‘ The question , ’ Benny interrupted , ‘ is how he intends to do it . ’
30 Moreover , he finds it a nuisance to have her in his flat all day , when he wants to do piano practice , or to play at conducting an orchestra .
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