Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] do be [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I intend to do is make sure that the story becomes public before Lewis can get it into print . ’ |
| 2 | All I intend to do is rob them of their chief copywriter . ’ |
| 3 | All I got to do is turn the key . |
| 4 | But what I say to do is buy a new chiller and get it on and then all Summer we 'll get this damn problem again . |
| 5 | I I what I want to do is make , if people going into selling advertising for the first time and most people are let's face it |
| 6 | ‘ I mean , do n't let the fact I 'm the longest serving flat-dweller put you off ; the last thing I want to do is embarrass you , Gav , ’ I said ( just a tad tetchily ) . |
| 7 | The last thing I want to do is break the spell . |
| 8 | ‘ The last thing I want to do is break up your friendship . ’ |
| 9 | All I want to do is finish the London under 4:20 , perhaps with some help from your magazine . |
| 10 | Almost as though explaining the normal techniques to a med student , he said patiently , ‘ You know , Laddie , that what I want to do is restore the affected joint to its proper position of function . ’ |
| 11 | Arrest and imprisonment would be the ultimate and tragic irony for Rod Jones , a man whose aims in Romania are simple : ‘ All I want to do is give the children a second chance . ’ |
| 12 | The last thing I want to do is talk . |
| 13 | All I want to do is go through a few aspects of your statement , to make sure I 've got them right . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Said Davenport : ‘ All I want to do is hold down a place in the side . |
| 17 | All I want to do is collect our stuff from the flat and head for the airport . ’ |
| 18 | All I want to do is sit and cry . |
| 19 | The last thing that I want to do is stray out of order . |
| 20 | ‘ All I want to do is get to the bottom of this , ’ she assured me as we entered her office . |
| 21 | All I want to do is get out . |
| 22 | What I want to do is get to play in a band situation so I can sit back and solo like a horn player again , using the MIDI . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll ignore that last bit , Myra ; all I want to do is get this apology for a holiday over and get back to work . ’ |
| 24 | Into the Movie Editor , and the first thing I want to do is get that background onto the screen . |
| 25 | All I want to do is get out of this one alive . |
| 26 | Then Miguel said in a strangled sort of voice , ‘ When all I want to do is get blind drunk , I have to play the host . |
| 27 | What I want to do is try and find out , we 'll try and put ourselves in the criminal 's er position and then s see how we go about breaking into a house . |
| 28 | What I want to do is concentrate on the modern sex theory and then er explain that and then relate it to Freud . |
| 29 | ‘ All I want to do is hurry home and cuddle them . ’ |
| 30 | But once we 've agreed is , once , once I 've done the work , we have done the work , I have done the work with you helping me , er I 've written this application , what I want to do is turn that into a much more general one and then I can write to you know maybe twenty , twenty five trusts on a more general basis |