Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] for [pers pn] to do " in BNC.

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1 It was against the law for him to do so and for the store to serve him .
2 I would erm love to be able to offer them something that had the sanction of the whole church and the weight of the church behind it erm which could satisfy the longing for me to do this .
3 ( 25 ) If someone who has been instructed to construct a building is prepared to give the money to the town for it to do so itself , since the testator wished this to be done by that person himself , his plea will not be heard : so ruled the late emperor Marcus in a rescript .
4 Erm , so I 'm hoping that that will work , it 's it 's down in the diary for him to do that , and and I 've given a little note about what the Adult School is all about .
5 Provided that the government acted efficiently , the result would be that the aggregate demand curve would not shift down : the tendency for it to do so would be offset by government action .
6 ‘ It was not so much of a stretch for me to do that role as people might think , ’ Dustin explained .
7 ‘ There was no conception of opening up a capacity for you to do things for yourself .
8 Where the dealer acted as counterparty to the contract he may be willing to unwind the contract with a customer but there is no incentive for him to do so at a competitive price .
9 In 1971 the CNAA gave evidence to the James Committee expressing its willingness to take on the validation of the Teachers Certificate if there was a need for it to do so .
10 At first he had suggested it might be fairer to everyone if he were to leave Kentucky and find work elsewhere — perhaps even return to England — but Cora-Beth had succeeded in making him see that there was absolutely no need for him to do so .
11 After all , there was no need for him to do so , was there ?
12 A a and certainly the way that we are set up at the moment , there is no need for us to do that .
13 There 's no need for you to do anything about it .
14 ‘ There 's no need for you to do that .
15 ‘ There 's no need for you to do that , Dana — you can come with us , ’ Claudia said firmly .
16 ‘ However , there 's really no need for you to do so , since this is where we get out , ’ he added , opening his door and helping her stiff , angry figure out on to the pavement .
17 There is no need for it to do so .
18 Such poems ‘ need not be stimulated by real-life events ’ such as the plight of the Marseilles dock-workers , which has effaced the sight — darkly limned in Jaromil 's juvenilia — of Magda in her bath ; and if the poet who displays his ignorant , indifferent self-portrait is hoping for applause , there is a chance for him to do well in the new world of revolution , which rings with applause , and with blame .
19 Nor did their broadcasts attribute any part of the story to me — there was no reason for them to do that because I 'd told them nothing they did n't already know .
20 There was no reason for him to do so because the claims that he wished to make were quite simple ( they did not involve complex interactions of different speaker variables ) , and because in his analysis the same patterns were repeated for every variable studied , tending in the same direction in every case in terms of both class and style ( several classes and several styles ) .
21 Is that too small a task for you to do ?
22 4.16 If you are handling cash , however small the amount , and you are not sure if there is an need for you to do so or you can think of an alternative method which will dispense with the need for you to carry cash in the course of your work , you should let your line supervisor know .
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