Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [verb] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watch me and wonder what would have happened if I had n't sent you away last night , if I 'd done what I longed to do , if I 'd let you make love to me … |
| 2 | What I hope to do from now on is to offer constructive suggestions as to how we might go forward . |
| 3 | In my last article in the magazine I told you all about my trip to Saudi Arabia , but I did n't tell you why I went or what I hope to do next . |
| 4 | What I hope to do is simply to share with you the life of Idigo and in experiences and to walk alongside him and also to help us reflectively to look and examine our own journey where are we with God ? |
| 5 | I promised members after that erm meeting that er I would bring forward different arguments tonight and that is exactly what I hope to do . |
| 6 | I like them like that because what I tend to do with so I like them that big because then I can cut them up into sticks , stick them in the fridge , then if I feel like being naughty not ever so naughty because I 'm nibbling at carrots rather than a packet of crisps or something . |
| 7 | Cos what I tend to do is I do a full board there find out |
| 8 | So what I thought to do , if Jill phones tomorrow morning |
| 9 | ‘ This programme is soundly in place at Waterford and is in the process of being implemented in Wedgwood with the expectation that it , too , will be fully in place by year-end or early next year — at which time , having done what I came to do , the chairmanship will be assumed by Dr O'Reilly . |
| 10 | When there 's er when there 's this sort of number what I like to do is make it very informal , more of a chat really than , than a talk . |
| 11 | Basically what I like to do is have a conversation about the project and then get the designer to come up with an answer . |
| 12 | So , I did what I learnt to do as a working-class woman , which was to justify why I did my work by saying , well of course it is a metaphor for all kinds of struggle , and of course it is , but actually the original reason was n't that at all . |
| 13 | This is what I undertake to do for you , reader . |
| 14 | And in a way I lost my direction too when all my lovely ideas about what I hoped to do were smashed down , leaving only a shell : a two-dimensional character instead of a many-faceted character , which would have been more interesting to watch and more interesting to do . |
| 15 | I replied , describing the state it was in at that time , and what I hoped to do with it . |
| 16 | Even though I knew what I had to do , once I got outside Liverpool Street station , I just wandered off aimlessly . |
| 17 | I knew what I had to do . |
| 18 | I did just what I had to do , and never realised that it was my best . |
| 19 | What I had to do was go back to the town centre and … |
| 20 | Maybe if I 'd been able to do some kind of planche , like your painter friend did on your … back , it would have been easy , but what I had to do was first try to get something akin to an erection standing at the copier of a deserted office on a holiday . |
| 21 | Obviously this was what I had to do . |
| 22 | I did what I had to do in Dublin — you 'll never know what I had to do to survive . |
| 23 | I did what I had to do in Dublin — you 'll never know what I had to do to survive . |
| 24 | No no it 's not , he explained to me exactly what I had to do , before he went . |
| 25 | You would n't believe what I had to do to get an introduction to the sisters . |
| 26 | I do not want my grandchildren to do what their grandfather did , or even marginally what I had to do . |
| 27 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 28 | But I did n't really have time or the ability to sit down and think about their whole term 's work which is what I had to do really . |
| 29 | I put up with all their talk , and I did what I had to do according to the state in which the Lord had placed me . |
| 30 | But I knew what I had to do , so I did it . ’ |