Example sentences of "do be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I do n't do is pretend to be a socialist , organise five hundred pound a head er ticket dinners as Neil Kinnock does , champagne and then have the gall next day to go to on the nineteenth of July , on the very day when saw what the Labour Group are doing to this city . |
| 2 | Hang on John , all this will do is make at least a quarter of our own members , in this union , to be inactive in their own industries . |
| 3 | All that I can do is to agree with my hon. Friend the Minister about the regulations and add some comments . |
| 4 | " Because all I can do is to pray to the spirits of our ancestors for forgiveness . " |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What the Russians want is technical help and equipment , now our own industry is in decline er yes , particularly in machine tool industry , and I think the first thing we should do is to go over there and see what it is they actually needed , what they actually need right now , er one of your previous er correspondence , er speaker turned round and said well they 've got half finished buildings and things like that , I mean er , people have got to be put to work because people in co-ordinate employment is the only source of real wealth , but the market economy is n't interested in promoting real wealth , I mean it 's only interested in what it can get out of an economy not what it gives . |
| 7 | Since the Ministers presenting this legislation hardly ever travel by bus , the least they can do is to listen to those who do so daily . |
| 8 | The character can not benefit by what he or she now knows and all the reader can do is reflect on all that has been lost or missed . |
| 9 | 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 . " |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All he can do is moan with pain . |
| 12 | What they did not do is cohabit in advance of the wedding , which could well be a good thing if we choose to take seriously a recent report which says cohabitees who subsequently marry are 60% more likely to divorce than those who marry without first living together . |
| 13 | In the past , they had a handsome lifestyle , but few of them have new projects to pursue ; all they can do is sit on their hands , rueing the day they paid so much for the land they were keen to build on . |
| 14 | All I can do is sit in the front and wait till I see Tod Richardson . |
| 15 | What we can not do is to rely on their happening . |
| 16 | All they got ta do is pull on a cable cos the door is locked |
| 17 | What we can actually do is suggest to the C , the C D or the computer shop your manufacturer can send directly to Peter via us , I then say via us . |
| 18 | And all Sean Walsh can do is stand like a stuffed dummy in that hospital and talk about me ! ’ |
| 19 | What I 'd do is stay on the other side of the room so I would n't get sucked through it . |
| 20 | The last thing the Profitboss will do is stay in the office to administer the paperwork on these projects . |
| 21 | Erm what I would do is go into a situation I 'd still dress as smartly you know and all the rest of it |
| 22 | So whi what I 'm trying to say to you is that you should have four sides of written text , whether it 's on two pages , three or four What I will do is go through the headings and give you a very brief description of that so that you know roughly what 's in them . |
| 23 | Okay what I 'll do is go through this and you can ask questions as we go through . |
| 24 | So if you 're doing A level psychol y'know I think perhaps you ought to say , ok what we 'll do is go for less depth but a more general approach . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Right well first of all the first thing we can probably do is broadsheet to the trade introducing product and incentives . |
| 27 | The most it can do is draw with its opponent . |
| 28 | What we wan na do is think of some buildings and describe them to ourselves and then work out what style , cos the thing is since the 1960s , styles like we want , like a progression of styles till the 1990s and see what 's changed and what 's stayed . |
| 29 | What we can do is think about the meaning of play and fantasy , and the repercussions of denying a child the sort of toys and television-watching that is allowed to almost every other child . |
| 30 | The regime has in fact over-corrected , but the harm which excessive centralisation might do is diminished by the degree of de facto autonomy which many provinces have acquired . |