• nothing doing, the game's up
• to be about to do sg, to plan to do sg
• as he was wont to do, as he wonts to do
• to be entitled to do sg
• to be intent on doing sg
• to be in the humour to do sg
• hard to please, ill to please, to be hard to please
• to be entitled to do sg
• have thoughts of doing sg, to seek, sought
• to be intent on, to be intent on doing sg
• to be intent on doing sg
• it ought to have been done before now
• wanting a leader nothing could be done
• this ought to have been done before