Example sentences of "[adv] for [pron] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet some form of coercion or compulsion still resulted from what he considered it right for him to do in certain circumstances . |
| 2 | That is , if you 'll stop talking long enough for me to do my job . " |
| 3 | My willpower may not may not strong enough for me to do it for long , but , I 've actually , I 've got that choice , to choose to do it , it 's something I do . |
| 4 | If the laboratory scientists were there already — and Lorrimer , the Senior Biologist , never missed a homicide if he could help it — then there might n't be much for him to do . |
| 5 | There would be less and less for him to do without the outlet at the Amtel clinic . |
| 6 | ‘ Because they want everybody to have a Big Daddy with his leather belt keeping 'em in order — less for them to do , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Provided he is not forced to drop them it may be that Gorbachev , ironically , could be the first world leader to actually reduce a country 's intelligence agencies on the grounds that there is less for them to do . |
| 8 | I wandered aimlessly around the National Gallery just for something to do and then went home . |
| 9 | But we smashed a bus shelter once just for something to do . " |
| 10 | You 've done it a thousand times already , but you do it again , just for something to do . |
| 11 | Somebody might laugh , but just for something to do I was picturing the McLaren girl and I sitting alone in the hotel cafe . |
| 12 | but just for you to do , on what we 've done so far , |
| 13 | I insist on paying for this interview , although there 's nothing further for you to do at present . ’ |
| 14 | I thought there might be more for me to do on this project . ’ |
| 15 | We passed indoors too quickly for me to do anything then . |
| 16 | A considerable number of stops are carried out mainly for something to do . |
| 17 | I think it 's quite common now for them to do the asking . ’ |
| 18 | You see it 's not really for me to do . |
| 19 | Underneath all that razzmatazz , the girls sneaked aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach or into his room in Guaruja , there was a man of some sensitivity who felt that both fame and sexual prowess had somehow been thrust upon him ; I think he found both hard to resist , and it must be acknowledged that a chauvinistic British press , his looks , his celebrity and his companions made it hard for him to do anything else than accept the role thrust upon him . |
| 20 | If it is always assumed that they are intellectually inferior , what else is there for them to do … every time teachers are constantly amazed by the fact that in the first year they have at the moment there are two or three really bright West Indian boys , and it 's of constant amazement to people like Mr G … ‘ my goodness he 's bright where does he get it from ’ . |
| 21 | I 've already answered the underlying question , I do believe that they should have the maximum discretion and then they should be answerable for their decisions to their local electors who want a good police service and want a good education service and there is money there for them to do it if that is their wish . |
| 22 | They had not been asked to sit down and indeed there was nowhere for them to do so . |
| 23 | All the actors interviewed seemed to feel , and state quite naturally and simply that there was really nothing else for them to do but act . |
| 24 | In truth , there was little else for them to do but work , if one disregarded the gilded nincompoops who surrounded the Prince of Wales . |
| 25 | There was not much else for him to do . |
| 26 | I 've had plenty of time to work it all out , there 's not much else for me to do . |
| 27 | She dried cups , saucers and plates on a soaking cloth for there was nothing else for her to do . |