Example sentences of "[verb] do be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the guy who 's pushing on has done is got from one holdup to the next holdup quicker than the next feller . |
| 2 | Those boys are the type of boys , all they want to do is put in their eight hours and go home . |
| 3 | erm Magistrates only send people to prison because they feel the circumstances of the case justify it and erm I think in the public mind erm the criticism is more often the reverse , that Magistrates are too soft , and I 've heard Lord Hailsham say more than once that if we do pay a price for the lay magistrate system it is leniency because what happens , and the difference between the lay magistrate system and the stipendiary system or the Crown Court system is that Magistrates do sit in threes , and what that tends to do is lead to compromises in sentence because discussion between three people irons out extreme views and you do tend to end up with a very well considered compromise view , which probably does tend to be more lenient than a sentence imposed by any one person who might himself take a very serious view of the circumstances . |
| 4 | I said all you 've got to do is put in the microwave two minutes that 'll do it I thought oh my goodness . |
| 5 | Barker was a natural showman , promoting Henry VIII with the declaration that he would burn all the prints of the film within six weeks , and his own sense of the significance of what he had done is echoed in Rachael Low 's description of this as ‘ the first really important feature film . ’ |
| 6 | It is just because whatever one has planned to do is bound to be altered in the process that it is important to start at the right moment , he wrote . |
| 7 | Then all Kirov had to do was run for cover and wait . |
| 8 | You held your hand still on the page and you traced around each finger , and all the little contours of your finger joints were captured , and you would go around a few times , and each time the pencil was at a slightly different angle , so you got this aura of your hand , that was so much more accurate than you could ever draw , and all you had to do was put in the fingernails and the little wrinkles on the backs of your fingers and you really had something ? |
| 9 | Now what we have done is looked at s these causeway relief arches which pass the water from one side of the to the other at . |
| 10 | All I wanted to do was run for my country , to be part of the action . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | It is my little pet theory about religious poetry that the greatest religious poetry is an act of renunciation and therefore what you have to do is put in what you 're giving away . |