Example sentences of "they [verb] do be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once they 've completed their trip all they want to do is head off back home and they simply do n't devote the time , energy and money on clearing up . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Those boys are the type of boys , all they want to do is put in their eight hours and go home . |
| 4 | ‘ All that Wordsworthian waffle , and then when you meet the people all they want to do is hop on the bus and off to the nearest bright lights . ’ |
| 5 | What they needed to do was to look in Milton 's Collected Poems or in an anthology such as The Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse , rather than expecting individual titles all to be listed separately in the catalogue . ) |
| 6 | Perhaps the Gaskells behaved like outsiders but the community was there , ready and open to them ; all they had to do was to slip into the place that was offered . |
| 7 | What they have done is to look in detail at the impact of two severe floods which hit the little Araglin river in Co Cork in August 1986 and how it has recovered since . |
| 8 | A radio paging system means staff can be bleeped when needed , all they have to do is go to the nearest intercom substation and they are straight through to reception or the management office . |
| 9 | Smith added : ‘ If the management wish to refer an issue to the England committee , all they have to do is pick up the phone . ’ |
| 10 | The meeting was at their request and what they wanted to do was discuss with us , how we should report er financial data to them in the future |
| 11 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 12 | They were constrained by s I mean like what they wanted to do was constrained by the practical sort of necessities of the time and even if they had wanted to have a more vigorous policy of land reform |