Example sentences of "to do is [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I was going to do is to go on and talk about , bring out electricity again as something which crops up . |
| 2 | Many would-be newspaper lensmen might assume that before each job the photographer gets a very precise brief from someone like Dermot O'Shea , and that all they have to do is to go off and get the shot . |
| 3 | well what I 'd like I think I 'd like people to do is go away and read this and see if it makes any sense when you 've actually sat and studied it . |
| 4 | know and get , cos lot I 've got his card all you have got to do is go in and say the name |
| 5 | All we want to do is go along and put forward our policies to discuss them in a well-mannered reasoned way . |
| 6 | I think they believe that all they have to do is to turn up and they 'll beat the rest of us . |
| 7 | All you want to do is sit home and drink gin . ’ |
| 8 | If you 're tiling a whole wall or room , the most important thing to do is to plan precisely where the whole tiles will fall . |
| 9 | It is linked to a video recorder in the room and all the teacher has to do is to switch on when she or he wants to be recorded . |
| 10 | City shopkeepers thought this would be disastrous as the last thing that people cooped up in offices all day want to do is to plunge underground when at last they have a chance to get out in the fresh air . |
| 11 | Now , what you 've got to do is to think well if you 've got a mortgage over er I would n't think you 'd consider this if your mortgage was under twenty thousand , it 's not such a big |
| 12 | All you need to do is find out when they 're open , which you can do by phoning us . |
| 13 | What we want local communities to do is to get together and look at the situation on the ground , that is to say the council , the police , the magistrates , the brewers , people who run fast food shops , the planners . |
| 14 | All I have to do is turn up and see the applicants , ’ she said . |
| 15 | All we have to do is get in and establish a bridgehead , so to speak . |
| 16 | ‘ And all we shall have to do is to stick together and confess that this dreadful accident did happen a little bit earlier and we all felt devastated but there was a full house and we all felt we owed it to the public that the show should go on . |
| 17 | ‘ All I want to do is hurry home and cuddle them . ’ |
| 18 | I mean the next thing they 'd want to do is to come in and do in this kitchen before you do any cooking for yourself |
| 19 | The obvious thing to do is strip off and dive into the clear , green water , but I would n't advise it . |
| 20 | Now what I would like to do is come back and see you either next week or the week after . |