Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | And let's make do and mend . |
| 2 | Those who do no have the time to go to a La Scala performance or are visiting out of season , must make do with going to the theatre museum ; this normally , but not always , includes a trip to the auditorium . |
| 3 | A few days later , on 8 June , the scheme was approved on two conditions : no unit was to be diverted from the essential defence of the British Isles ; and the new force must make do with a minimum of arms . |
| 4 | Sometimes youngsters must make do with teachers ' worksheets giving summaries of books they should be studying . |
| 5 | For one person to get more , another must make do with less . |
| 6 | Students must make do with two exercise books for the entire year . |
| 7 | We in Scotland must make do with such styles as we can accumulate in our professional careers and , by and large , the only other source of styles for non-statutory deeds is the Encyclopaedia of Scottish Legal Styles . |
| 8 | ITALY , Scotland 's World Cup rivals , must make do without gifted Juventus playmaker Roberto Baggio today when they seek a victory over Malta which would lift them to the top of the qualifying Group I. |
| 9 | He 'll make do with his interest-free £250 overdraft from the listening bank . |
| 10 | I 'll make do for myself but I wo n't make do for them . |
| 11 | I 'll make do with slides . |
| 12 | And until he gets real power he 'll make do with deference — subservience even . |
| 13 | Sorry I 've spoilt your expectations … ’ his obsidian eyes darted over her flushed face , framed in its disarray of blonde hair ‘ … though maybe , ’ he paused significantly , ‘ maybe you 'll make do with a temporary substitute ? ’ |
| 14 | I 'm not going to Nettos today I 'll make do just go down the bottom . |
| 15 | Right , Anthea 's not in her office right now , she 's in Eynsham , so it 'll take all of 75 seconds to get there , so she 'll make do with call parking it anyway . |
| 16 | ‘ They might make do with that . ’ |
| 17 | Now what we 'll do do you like pizza ? |
| 18 | Well , well anyway we 'll do do that and see see what the other 's like . |
| 19 | O.K. I 'll try do a version , but it does effect on Q P 5 an Q P6 you see as well coughing . |
| 20 | To , yes , we 'll go do that . |
| 21 | Regular readers will know that I have been a fan of Stephen Coonts since I reviewed his first novel Flight of the Intruder ( now a major ( ? ) film , as they say , though I 'd make do with the book if I were you ) . |
| 22 | You 'd make do that ! |
| 23 | This would be all very well , if the plants of the phytoplankton could make do entirely on solar energy , which at least in the tropics is abundant all year round , and on carbon dioxide , which is always available in solution . |
| 24 | He carried no weapon save his own sharp needles and scissors , but it occurred to him that he could make do with the slivers of glass from the broken sarcophagus . |
| 25 | At Boston Spa , for example , there were no adequate washing facilities for 16 years ; at Exeter , it was 1887 before the school got hot water facilities ; at Old Kent Road , the installation of gas pipes which could have provided better lighting was rejected in 1833 on the grounds the cost was exorbitant and that the children could make do with candles . |
| 26 | No doubt McDowell could make do with first-order ‘ quasi'-knowledge in a theory of cognitive representations for ‘ lower ’ species ( in something of the form suggested by Field 1978 ) , stopping short of the special problems posed by the diagnosis of the higher-order beliefs and intentions involved in a Gricean or sub-Gricean mechanism ( cf. |
| 27 | The family say I take after my mother a great deal in that she could make do and be happy . |
| 28 | But anyway , we created that whole idea that no-one could photograph him , no-one could do do a story on him unless it was going to be a cover story , which was outrageous because he was virtually unknown in America . |
| 29 | What what do you think they could do do ? |
| 30 | We could do do things like that |