Example sentences of "[verb] do be [vb infin] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | All he has to do is talk to the Whips , and we will have a debate on sport any time he likes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ All I want to do is get to the bottom of this , ’ she assured me as we entered her office . |
| 4 | What I 'd most like to do is go to the court to listen to what 's happening in the trial , but … . ’ |
| 5 | what Alan intends to do is write to all line managers and ask them to go back and review their appraisal erm documents for every member of staff they 've appraised . |
| 6 | All you 've got to do is chat to him about Tuscany and then twist the conversation around so you can slide in a few of my questions . ’ |
| 7 | But the media ca n't say that , they ca n't interpret that because what they 've got to do is sell to their readers , a story which the readers want to hear . |
| 8 | Gedge told The Legend ! in an NME interview in April 1986 : ‘ When we play live I can sometimes come across as glib or arrogant and find that people take exception to what I say when all I 'm trying to do is talk to the audience . ’ |
| 9 | What you 're trying to do is indicate to them how best you might be able to work your way through those controversies to be able to make some statement of policy or some recommendation and the like … . |
| 10 | All she had to do was admit to something she had n't done . |
| 11 | But all seemed to go well for me as I climbed from boat to boat successfully , and then all I had to do was get to the wall from the last boat . |
| 12 | He returned home about eight o'clock in the evening , feeling absolutely exhausted , and as he said , all he wanted to do was go to sleep . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ We only meet about three times a term , ’ one drastically lean lady was telling him ; ‘ and the dates are always fixed well in advance so all you have to do is arrange to be free on that evening . ’ |
| 15 | With the diameter of the sphere measured all you have to do is return to your school days to do a bit of geometry involving pi ( πD ) , which will give you the circumference . |
| 16 | All you have to do is write to her at the address below to receive a questionnaire ( do n't send any money now ) . |
| 17 | All you have to do is write to her at the address below to receive a questionnaire ( do n't send any money now ) . |
| 18 | All you have to do is drive to this place and hold out a hand in friendship . ’ |
| 19 | All we have to do is report to the parents once a year it does n't say that everything has to be on the report sheet at the same time it may well be some information goes at one particular time and some at another . |