Example sentences of "do be [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However the one thing that you must never do is to go between a cow and her calf and I made this mistake one morning and I had to take to my heals and run . |
| 2 | Here I am , yours for the asking ; talented , handsome , lovable and affectionate , and all you can do is gawk at a couple of brainless broads . " |
| 3 | What this will do is present at a disadvantage when it comes to competing with other units to secure the contracts that it ultimately undertakes at the minute . |
| 4 | All they got ta do is pull on a cable cos the door is locked |
| 5 | And all Sean Walsh can do is stand like a stuffed dummy in that hospital and talk about me ! ’ |
| 6 | Erm what I would do is go into a situation I 'd still dress as smartly you know and all the rest of it |
| 7 | The last thing you should do is go on a spending spree at the end of the year to justify this year 's budget and enhance next year 's . |
| 8 | Now what we would do is put into a flexible trust , okay ? |
| 9 | ‘ Do not take it to heart ; they say all you need do is lie with a virgin . |
| 10 | At this the lowest level , what is done is done in a compliant way . |
| 11 | They came on him rapidly and powerfully and he decided that all he could do was to circle in a gentle way to indicate that he was not hostile , his heart filled with joy to see his own kind . |
| 12 | All I need do was agree to a list of people who had already been named , so I would n't be hurting anyone . |
| 13 | from escaping through the top and if you 're i if it 's a fa you know , there 's some light or disturbance you and want to sleep and the best thing to do is to go into a light doze cos , you know , you ca n't do much else that 's cover your face . |
| 14 | Now all you need to do is decide on a specific package ! |
| 15 | Far from seeking to gain political advantage , all that my Group have tried to do is to continue with a long-held policy on disability . |
| 16 | All I want to do is go through a few aspects of your statement , to make sure I 've got them right . ’ |
| 17 | The first thing to do is go on a shopping trip . |
| 18 | All you 'll need to do is sit on a horse . |
| 19 | All Gorby has to do is sit at a desk , saying nothing . |
| 20 | This is for the sensible reason that the last thing ministers want to do is to listen to an argument about figures being wrong . |
| 21 | What we have to do is to think of a personal God without thinking of a ‘ body ’ of God . |
| 22 | Adding a coprocessor is relatively easy in that all you have to do is plug in a chip into an empty socket . |
| 23 | We decided one of our first things we had to do was decide on a sequence of construction for these tanks . |
| 24 | The only thing to do was to go for a walk . |
| 25 | He told my father that he could see my father 's guide and that proof was possible : all my father had to do was relax on a bed , say the Lord 's Prayer , then call out the name Massa . |
| 26 | for that , I mean , all you 're doing is going on a ferry |
| 27 | ‘ How can you stand there talking about bits of paper and profits and money … money , ’ she made the word into an excrescence , ‘ when what you are doing is playing with a human soul . |
| 28 | People moving in , this was in the medical practice , people moving in new er new er new first things you do is register with a doctor . |
| 29 | The person who is out in the front teaching the class , or directing the piece of work they 're doing , they do , and everybody in it does … the kind of work we do is to do with a group of people … getting into a drama studio , and you know the set-up here ; there 's no uniform , there 's no ‘ Sir ’ or ‘ Miss ’ , it 's all Christian names , and that means that the holds are broken down a lot , so what is done in the end is to produce work which we hope makes statements which come from the pre-occupations , the beliefs , the honestly held beliefs of the people involved , whether they 're working from a text , an interpretation of a text , or whether they 're working from improvisation , doing their own work … so they get constant assessment from that . |
| 30 | So I ask you to be open minded they may seem a little bit off the wall to start with , but everything that we do is done for a purpose to achieve er what we 're wanting to achieve and what I do want to achieve is by the end of tomorrow is to have given you a system . |