Example sentences of "[modal v] do [det] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fraser and Ramsay had agreed that , since it was all the latter 's idea and the former was a man of action rather than words , Ramsay should do most of the talking . |
| 2 | Later you should do most of the session in spikes . |
| 3 | You may do this with the juice of plums , gooseberries , apricots , figs , or any juicy fruit . " |
| 4 | They 'll do that at the Belfry tonight , are n't they ? |
| 5 | Right , we 'll do that on the way back from taking the that back there . |
| 6 | Yeah , but then we 'll do that in the car wash then . |
| 7 | Informix says it 'll do some of the work itself , but will go to partners and other developers for the body of it . |
| 8 | I 'll do this in the lecture . |
| 9 | That he 'd do that in the morning as a little part time job for 'em , and all he 'd do is erm , the Pool Manager , which is at Lock Gates , he know what ships come in the day before and he really know the man and then in the morning they 'd say well so and so ship has arrived but perhaps he might know it , then he 'd send , he 'd know what men to send and this , cos I , I used to get the latest information , they did n't worry him , they worried me about lates latest information and of course we knew what ships was due for the next day so we knew what allocation we wanted . |
| 10 | It would n't be fair for such a player — who could do much for the balance of the side as a genuine all-rounder — to be held back just because there was an ageing geriatric hanging around , trying to prolong his playing days . |
| 11 | And erm somebody like Mike of Chris is perfectly capable of get their bits of paper to check to tick off things like that but Wendy will have to check it and put it you know they could do some of the legwork but not yet . |
| 12 | I heard , when I started looking into the project at first that erm , the women used to do most of the weaving but you do n't actually do the weaving now , and they used to basically you know make up the , the larger part of the work force , is that the case now ? |
| 13 | And so I said , Yes , I would do that for the year and then I 'd get back into teaching . |
| 14 | I said yes , but filling all my early evenings with this would prove rather inconvenient on those occasions when I wanted to go out , so we agreed a system whereby I would do some of the work first thing in the morning and the rest of it just after I closed down the switchboard . |
| 15 | The former would do most of the talking ; the latter said little . |
| 16 | The Single European Act , fully in force from 1992 , will be a bonus for business but will do little for the rest of us . |
| 17 | It will feel the need to express its dominance and will do this in the manner of a ‘ top cat ’ . |
| 18 | But immediately monitoring is coming into play here , if I was your manager , but the computer will do this by the way , but your manager will spot that and say , have you made those fifty calls . |
| 19 | A pocket calculator will do most of the work . |
| 20 | And the idea is that you step up and down on those and that 's your exercise , well you can do that on the bottom of your stirs for nothing . |
| 21 | They can do that on the decision that the frigates will be finished on the Tyne . |
| 22 | Now you can do that on the step , in fact do n't go from a house to a bungalow , you give up your best form of exercise , now I know people say ooh well when you get older you ca n't get up and down . |
| 23 | One can do that on the basis of Christian theology . |
| 24 | Er you can do that during the coffee break if you have n't already done so . |
| 25 | we can do that towards the end of nineteen ninety-four then could n't we ourselves |
| 26 | Well we can do that from the oak container out there . |
| 27 | Now , do n't worry about it now when you come back to this right , you can do that in the bar if you like , that okay ? |
| 28 | Aha , and they can do that in the summary ! |
| 29 | if you 're interested , then we can do that in the bath , can you put them in the box first |
| 30 | You can do this to the extent of saying as Agatha Christie ( who abandoned Hercule Poirot 's charmingly bumbling Captain Hastings quite early ) does in One , Two , Buckle my Shoe ; " For the first time Hercule Poirot was looking at the case the right way up . " |