Example sentences of "do [be] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Because all I can do is to pray to the spirits of our ancestors for forgiveness . " |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All you 've got ta do is to sit on the bog and go oooaaah |
| 4 | All it can do is to cling to the roof of its gallery and there hundreds of them hang in rows . |
| 5 | What the report does not do is to comment on the appropriateness of the sampling methodology for producing these kinds of performance measures . |
| 6 | All they can do is to look at the evidence and decide what they are going to believe . |
| 7 | Right , erm , ah , I think the best thing we can do is to look at the rate book for this question because you may have remembered it from er , you may not . |
| 8 | The very least the world can now do is to read into the legal record the barbarism of the Bosnian war . |
| 9 | All that can be done is to point to the factors that the courts commonly take into account when calculating the multiplier . |
| 10 | So technology has advanced considerably , and what we 've done is to capitalise on the younger engineers and we 've introduced another phase called neighbourhood engineers and this is where we rely on the er goodwill of the firms to actually sa let their seconder engineers sometimes , but certainly let them out into the er into the schools careers convention work places to talk to the actual youngster itself . |
| 11 | Instead , the sketch was clear only in his and the director 's minds , and what was done was to begin in the limited area , biology and geology . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Obviously , the thing to do is to backwind to the point where the eating of the banana comes to an end and begin the next shot from there . |
| 14 | All you have to do is to go with the flow of events , letting each scene add to what has gone before . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The second thing we need to do is to lobby for the repeal of the unwinding of the safety net . |
| 18 | Obviously the first thing to do is to deal with the family 's emotional problem as well as your own . |
| 19 | This is for the sensible reason that the last thing ministers want to do is to listen to an argument about figures being wrong . |
| 20 | What we have to do is to think of a personal God without thinking of a ‘ body ’ of God . |
| 21 | And what we 've tried to do is to look at the national curriculum and try to identify young engineers who could go in and help with design and technology and quite obviously , practice what they preach . |
| 22 | And the only other thing to do is to look at the at matching it . |
| 23 | Erm , the point perhaps of , of , of the thing is , it 's called the Team Focus , and hopefully for that very reason what we 're trying to do is to look at the way in which you can improve your performance together if you like , erm , and it would be very interesting to see what Jack and Linda can contribute to this in that , people who 've worked together for sort of six or seven years , erm , ought to be able to show us something . |
| 24 | The notion that you have a group of children that you can categorize , say like partially sighted , or maladjusted , or educationally subnormal , and that they should have a special education , is one that 's been increasingly challenged over the years and I think the Warnock Report actually moves considerably away from that notion and says no , we do n't want to separate off a particular group because they appear to have a single erm or even a multiple disability , what we want to do is to look at the needs of each individual child and ask what is it about that particular child that makes the achievement of education objectives more difficult than another child . |
| 25 | I found the windows version easier to use , as all the commands are available at the top of the screen in the form of buttons ( in true windows format ) , all you need to do is to click on the required command . |
| 26 | All I have to do is to get through the skin of stones and then I shall be in soft earth ( I imagine ) . |
| 27 | If a car suddenly swerves round the corner while I am standing in the middle of the road , the right thing for me to do is to jump for the pavement as spontaneously as a cat . |
| 28 | What not to do is to pan from the toddler back to the father , instead of cutting from one to the other . |
| 29 | The only thing to do was to go for a walk . |
| 30 | And all they wanted it to do was to go around the corner to Marygate for the winter and then we s got the same in the spring to bring it back , but by that time the python was a lot bigger . |