Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [modal v] do [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Say there we are you can add twelve add twelve or you can do two times |
| 2 | After this he or she might do supplementary work , at higher rates of pay , for private individuals who need their apartment painted or television repaired . |
| 3 | Investment bonds we have n't covered , and they are a variation of a unit trust really , but they 're issued by live companies , and you can do other things with them , and they have got tax advantages . |
| 4 | So here 's the hypothesis to explain that ellipsis is confined to constituents where constituents are just what they sound like , genuine components of a larger thing which is signalled by sticking brackets , labelled brackets round them so they make a phrase and you can do certain things with them . |
| 5 | The management er clearly desired to implement the scheme er with the minimum amount of frustration er to anyone , although you 've got to understand that as an engineer working a , a big milling machine for example , if someone comes along and said er , you know you could stand that job on its side different to what you 've got it at the moment , and you could do two faces instead of one you know , by turning the table and you know , by use of various tools er decrease the time factor , there was the , it was a fear that our members may work themselves out of a job . |
| 6 | Well yeah , but I do n't think the job 's erm , I mean that 's not the problem for her because she can always go on the agency you see and she can do general midwifery |
| 7 | If you want to you can give up now and we 'll do some reading next . |
| 8 | Erm we are still not going to enough we we need something like just over half a million to do all the schemes er which er and we could do next year and this Committee is going to have to decide there , which er town centres are actually going to be done and which are going to be erm left out . |
| 9 | Much more cost effective is n't it if things to be done once rather than have to do reading them two or three times and generally the reason that things are repeated a number of times is that perhaps people are not really quite sure or not that that are systems , yet productivity the better trained people are people who can do things , get it right the first time and they can do more work ca n't they than somebody else you are not having to pick it up as the manager responsible and put mistakes right . |
| 10 | It is possible for these to ‘ run away from you ’ , and they can do more damage than you 'd imagine . |
| 11 | And he 'll do all sorts of terrible things . |
| 12 | Well they had one man in the hold and they used to have a fork lift in the hold , in Holland , with one man and he could do that job and they sent one man ashore , well over here we had four men in the hold and two men ashore . |
| 13 | And he can do all kinds of really neat magic . |
| 14 | The process can be speeded up somewhat by changing the blotting paper several times while the flowers are being pressed , although you must be extremely careful as the plants will be exceptionally fragile at this point and it may do more harm than good to disturb them . |
| 15 | But I can do many things that you do not understand . |
| 16 | I ca n't give you a figure now , on how many American firms there are in the county , erm , but I can do some work on it and come back to you . |
| 17 | Miss , will you put your arm under one other , an' I 'll do this side . |
| 18 | ‘ But you 'll do this job before you leave ? ’ |
| 19 | But you can do these things yourself . |