Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] do [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing the big , anxious woman could do to investigate the matter further and although she played the beam of the torch on every inch visible to her , she could n't see whatever it was that might have made her daughter scream other than the damp and secret darkness of the place . |
| 2 | ‘ I am not sure there is anything a state can do to change the economics of the airline business , ’ Mr Crandall said . |
| 3 | Mr Ken Currie of the Energy Technology Support Unit at Harwell will then describe what the rich world could do to mitigate the effects . |
| 4 | Finally back at base , it 's amazing what a five-star hotel can do to revive the spirits . |
| 5 | It must have begun to seem that there was nothing the British film producer could do to challenge the place of American films on the nation 's screens . |