Example sentences of "[verb] do be [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All you 'll need to do is sit on a horse . |
| 2 | What we would need to do is establish about Brown 's mental event and Green 's mental event that if either man also had the other 's experience , he could not distinguish in content between the two events . |
| 3 | All an eavesdropper has to do is key in the broad frequency and then ‘ tweak ’ it a little to get the fine tuning . |
| 4 | Throughout her self-pitying monologue ( for which she received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination ) , all Dustin has to do is stare at her while his moustache droops in sympathy . |
| 5 | All he has to do is talk to the Whips , and we will have a debate on sport any time he likes . |
| 6 | He does n't have to steer at all ; he does n't look at his compass ; he need not even run his engines : his vessel is quite literally pulled out of one ocean and into the other by a sextet of electrically-powered ( and Japanese-made ) trains called ‘ mules ’ which run on American cast-iron rails beside the lock-gates of the Canal : all the captain has to do is stand on the bridge and watch , listen to the genial Yankee twang of his assigned American pilot and experience a transport of delight . |
| 7 | Even without directly challenging an idea , all one has to do is sit on it for a while , put it in his or her pocket , not respond , find other projects more important — and the change effort will be stalled . |
| 8 | All Gorby has to do is sit at a desk , saying nothing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | All I want to do is go through a few aspects of your statement , to make sure I 've got them right . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | If your car breaks down or you need to get a taxi home late at night , the last thing you want to do is wander round looking for a phone box . |
| 15 | All you want to do is sit at home and watch TV . |
| 16 | But if all you want to do is sit in the gardens or laze by the pool , they will allow it ! |
| 17 | The only type of legal research that most practising lawyers want to do is research into the law relating to a case that they have on hand . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm lucky , really , because I 'm with Denis and Astrid and they 're real friends — good friends and their comfort is so welcome — but I 'm in a foreign country so I 'm alone , and what I most want to do is talk about Dad to people — which is why I 'm writing this . |
| 19 | ‘ All I want to do is get to the bottom of this , ’ she assured me as we entered her office . |
| 20 | But it 's very difficult to say to people , ‘ Go back into your offices and rock your handset ’ , because it 's the last thing on your mind , especially after a boring afternoon like this , all you want to do is get in there , do as little as possible and go home ! |
| 21 | What I want to do is concentrate on the modern sex theory and then er explain that and then relate it to Freud . |
| 22 | Now what I want to do is look at what was happening at that time and then try and explain using the determinants of demand what the patterns actually were . |
| 23 | so we want to do is look at that one and we see that it 's keeping on track and er it 's doing the things that we actually want to do |
| 24 | What you want to do is ring up the Sunday Times and get a reporter round and he 'll get a scandal story and they 'll do something |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | try to get rid of all my baby stuff and , so what I 'm going to do is advertise in the paper and then |
| 27 | But now I 'm glad , glad and thankful and almost forgiving … because all you 're going to do is play at soldiers twice a week . |
| 28 | What I 'd most like to do is go to the court to listen to what 's happening in the trial , but … . ’ |
| 29 | What I 'd like to do is go through the minutes of the last meeting . |
| 30 | There are no conditions specifically attached under the IDO but of course we have obligations — the county minerals officer will be pursuing us for restoration quite rightly — what we 'd like to do is go beyond the basic restoration and make it much better . |