Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] what [pron] [vb mod] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been doing more thinking about what we should do in future . |
| 2 | I 'll get you some sandwiches and some more tea and once you 've eaten we can get down to some practical thinking about what you can do next . ’ |
| 3 | I came away from the Oxford seminar with a clear idea in my mind about what I should do to stimulate discussion on this subject in Wales . |
| 4 | ‘ Maybe if I played with another side I 'd get more recognition for what I can do . |
| 5 | I have so looked forward to it , making all the things with Matey , and thinking of what we shall do with the money we make — which is stupid really , when I know that I could so easily give them so much more — But that would be nothing , for what I have done with Matey has been done by me , and not by Papa , for that is what giving them his money would mean . |
| 6 | Sadly there was no mention of what it could do to a 13-year-old child . |
| 7 | And with it , the sudden fear of what it could do to the tourist trade . |
| 8 | You were right to break with him if you decided that you had made a mistake in accepting him , but oh , my dear , your uncle Orrin tells me that he dare not inform your father of the dreadful things Havvie is hinting about you for fear of what he might do to Havvie . |
| 9 | When pressed and asked , ’ What if British Steel refuses to change its policy after talking ? ’ the Opposition gave no indication of what they would do . |
| 10 | And yet I risked everything I had worked towards , all the hope of what I might do in a position of real power , for something that was obviously doomed to failure from the start . |
| 11 | As she got into her car , she pushed away the worrying question of what she would do if she found evidence that implicated Veronica in the murder of Hugh Puddephat . |
| 12 | But perhaps it 's more a question of what I can do for you ? ’ |
| 13 | Over the years , the experts seem to have got in all of a lather over what we should do to cleanse our skin properly . |
| 14 | Beck added : ‘ It was a reminder of what he could do . |
| 15 | The secondary school to which they went on would then have an accurate record of what they could do , and could save a great deal of time at present wasted in the transition from one school to another . |
| 16 | He or she is trying to get a very clear picture of what you can do so that they can place you accurately and not send you on too many pointless interviews . |
| 17 | Her initial action on reaching her room , however , was to sit down by the telephone and to try and concentrate her attention on what she should do now . |
| 18 | Until then they had treated him with a mixture of sympathy as a man caught up , by line of duty , in a political imbroglio , and suspicion at what he might do to make things worse . |
| 19 | It has to be done , thought Taliesin , torn between agony for Fergus and the knowledge of what they must do . |
| 20 | ‘ … this is only the beginning of what they will do ; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them ’ ( 11.6 ) . |
| 21 | It was n't as big a hit , but we 'd shown more about the scope of what they could do . ’ |
| 22 | Now that he was left alone with the two women , both of whom ( he imagined ) rather admired him , Rupert felt a sense of power , though there being two of them rather limited the scope of what he could do — cramped his style , he might almost have said . |
| 23 | He takes a pride in what he can do in a small space . |
| 24 | Erm or I mean you know for advice about what they could do about D H S S. |
| 25 | On the other hand , can you see if coordination gets er deteriorates in any way you 're going to be cut off from an awful lot of things you now , you might have been marvellous at embroidery , it gave you a lot of satisfaction but if your co coordination starts to go then the quality of what you can do will satisfy you , will dissatisfy you , make you feel annoyed . |
| 26 | He wrote what became a celebrated memorandum to Cordell Hull , the secretary of state , in which he declared that he was " thrilled by the idea of using iran as an example of what we could do by an unselfish American policy . |
| 27 | An example of what you can do with a little space … a lot of work … and seven and a half thousand plants … |
| 28 | When you are talking about 12,000 children , many only young teenagers , there is a limit to what they can do for themselves and the help of the aid community is obviously vital . |
| 29 | Mr Threlfall said : ‘ There is a physical limit to what we can do ; this was one of those unfortunate occasions . ’ |
| 30 | There has to be a limit to what you can do . ’ |