Example sentences of "[verb] do be get [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 | ‘ All I want to do is get to the bottom of this , ’ she assured me as we entered her office . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | This , we 're all agreed that it 's a marketing exercise and what we 're trying to do is to get across to our clients , what we have to offer to them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After all the interviews , TV programmes and everything , all I wanted to do was get on the track again . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | All I have to do is to get through the skin of stones and then I shall be in soft earth ( I imagine ) . |
| 9 | ‘ So , all we have to do is get past Gog and Magog , and we can have a little talk . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ All I have to do is get through the trials , ’ he says with ironic humour . |