Example sentences of "[be] [indef pn] [prep] [pers pn] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | He longed to do some real work that would give him some satisfaction at the end of a day , yet there seemed to be nothing for him to do . |
| 2 | There appeared to be nothing for him to do but make his way back to the Inn on the Point , collect his own belongings and return to London . |
| 3 | The management committee will meet and it will divide the money into two and give each one however much the management committee feels that it should have and that management committee need not meet again for twelve months because there will be nothing for it to do . |
| 4 | There 's nothing for me to do . |
| 5 | There 's nothing for me to do . |
| 6 | There 's nothing for him to do , is there ? |
| 7 | ‘ No , not exactly , but there 's nothing for you to do . |
| 8 | for example , that if a sporting event ends prematurely because of bad weather , or of attendance falls short of anticipated levels , some or all of the casual labour force can be discharged and workers need not be carried when there is nothing for them to do . |
| 9 | In other words Julie , there is nothing for you to do is all , I mean , you 're giving , you 're giving millions of instructions |
| 10 | You are welcome to serve my meals in my room , there is plenty for me to do alone upstairs . ’ |
| 11 | There 's plenty of us to do the work . ’ |
| 12 | So he gets twenty five pound for the for the night , and he has n't got to start until about nine o'clock anyway so erm that 's , that 's something for him to do , is n't it ? |
| 13 | There was nothing for me to do , I was too young to get a work permit , and mum was determined we were n't going to start breaking the law the minute we 'd got there , so she called Auntie Muriel and Auntie Muriel said why not . |
| 14 | The bottom line was that there was nothing for them to do and those thoroughbred young men were too bright and too vigorous to put up with endless bull . |
| 15 | There was nothing for him to do now until Kynaston had finished . |
| 16 | There was nothing for him to do except settle down to some work . |
| 17 | There was nothing for him to do but play cards , which was allowed . |