Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I want to do is be part of something that does . ’ |
| 2 | It would be madness for me to refuse you through hurt pride when all I want to do is be with you , as I have just found out . ’ |
| 3 | She admitted that she had been thrilled at the idea of being alone with him , but all he was going to do was be stiffly silent . |
| 4 | Oh well okay , the other we 've got to do is be in the situation where you 've had a look at it before we all see it . |
| 5 | The last thing I would want to do is be unkind to people who have given me an extremely successful show . |
| 6 | And he said ’ all you got to do is be careful you do n't hit the hedge , you see ’ . |
| 7 | Too late Paige tried to avoid him , but all she managed to do was be off balance as his hands caught her shoulders , and with a muffled yelp she toppled backwards . |
| 8 | Erm the , the instructions I 've got is be courteous but we 're not here to answer questions . |
| 9 | Erm what I was trying to do was be candid about what kind of er inquiries of the strategic kind might be expected to come if this county had that kind of policy . |
| 10 | All she had to do was be more herself and less what she thought she ought to be . |
| 11 | And all he had to do was be this other person and convince everybody . |
| 12 | ‘ It was terrible having to be seen as a human being when all I wanted to do was be a bean . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ All you have to do is be black and do n't curse the Jews directly , and the Jew will vote for the black in a second . |
| 14 | All I have to do is be fully committed to the Lord 's work and He will show me what I can do . |
| 15 | All you have to do is be alert and take those few basic precautions . |
| 16 | That the world is not divided into 2 classes of people — one who run private care for nasty reasons — and another group who work in the statutory service for all the good reasons , and that what we have to do is be prepared to step outside of those kinds of labelling and look at what we are seeing , look at the needs of the people we are trying to help make provision for and see what best can be done out of the resources available . |
| 17 | All you have to do is be as good as gold for a week . |