Example sentences of "[to-vb] [be] [vb infin] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout her self-pitying monologue ( for which she received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination ) , all Dustin has to do is stare at her while his moustache droops in sympathy . |
| 2 | The male penguin might just have calculated that if you 're stuck in the Antarctic for years on end then the cleverest thing to do is stay at home minding the egg while you send the female off to catch fish in the freezing waters . |
| 3 | Because what we 'll have to do is negotiate at the end of the next session , whenever we 've finished , cos that 's entirely dependent on when we get fed up varies on what |
| 4 | All you want to do is sit at home and watch TV . |
| 5 | All Gorby has to do is sit at a desk , saying nothing . |
| 6 | There are little tricks , for example , if it 's a time clause , when you think to yourself oh God it 's one of those lists , you sit down and calm yourself , take a Valium or whatever it is and just apply yourselves to that , right , what the next point is so the first thing I want you to do is stop at this time clause , when you realize it 's a time clause I want you to go trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot to the main verb , alright ? |
| 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 | Evan 's angry and embarrassed , Nic 's sullen beyond belief , there 's a rammed , expectant club waiting for them to play , and all they want to do is moan at their manager ( who also works for Nirvana ) back in the States . |
| 9 | All we have the right to do is look at these names and if anyone or two are unsuitable , we will say so , ’ he told Channel 4 News on Thursday . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | What I want you to do is look at them and assess — in your considered opinion — whether they can be made to work or not . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | so we want to do is look at that one and we see that it 's keeping on track and er it 's doing the things that we actually want to do |
| 14 | What you have to do is look at your T G and close your eyes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But now I 'm glad , glad and thankful and almost forgiving … because all you 're going to do is play at soldiers twice a week . |
| 17 | And then , once we had met , all you had to do was arrive at my home , exclaiming , ‘ Surprise , surprise ! ’ and use your little lever to gain entry into my family . ’ |
| 18 | If the teacher criticised or even hit you then the last thing to do was complain at home because the certainty was you would be criticised or hit again . |