Example sentences of "[vb mod] do [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must do everything with the utmost precision , and beauty of tone . |
| 2 | If the Minister is genuinely concerned about maritime safety , he must do something about the massive proposed cuts in the coastguard service . |
| 3 | NEXT time Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra perform Messiaen 's Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum they should do it in a great cathedral . |
| 4 | Right , and let's do one on the other one as well . |
| 5 | If only Maxwell could be more … if only they could stay awake … if only Maxwell could be with her at three thirty in the afternoon , when they might do it like the old days … |
| 6 | a green one or something , but I 'll do it as a red one |
| 7 | I 'll do it for a hundred and thirty quid no more ! |
| 8 | ‘ … I 'll do it for the Young Farmers sometime . ’ |
| 9 | No , I wo n't do it then I 'll do it I 'll do it in the early evening when no one 's too drunk . |
| 10 | I reckon I 'd do it for a thousand pounds . |
| 11 | We thought it was so good that we 'd do it for the old people 's home . |
| 12 | I thought we 'd do it in the fresh air rather than in the car , cos it just means |
| 13 | He was so efficient , I 'm wondering if he could do something about the disgusting chick pea casserole they serve on the Intercity 125 . |
| 14 | Ruth kept her distance from him but she could do nothing about the wretched aura that surrounded him . |
| 15 | She could do nothing about the cold or the slick damp that covered the walls , but she had gathered as much straw as she could and had made a bed in the driest of the cells . |
| 16 | She saw Naylor 's sharp glance go over her , but , while she quickly lowered her glance , she could do nothing about the unexpected riot of colour that flooded her face . |
| 17 | But I could do them in the smaller size . ’ |
| 18 | I mean I wo n't go into detail , but I mean she could do endowment , she could do it on a maximum investment plan basis , to back up her P E P , erm and save regularly through different funds . |
| 19 | We could do it on the National Health . |
| 20 | Now you could do it in the nineteen seventies and er well yes I would say from nineteen sixty eight onwards with plastic card and revolv , what 's called revolving credit . |
| 21 | ‘ To get my 150th would be another landmark and it would be nice if I could do it in the Premier League . ’ |
| 22 | And you could do that in the all the rest area , you could do it in the whole club to be honest . |
| 23 | It would clearly be very difficult to compare one disaster to another , in fact I 'm not even sure you could do it from a grammatical point of view , but if you were to point your finger somewhere in the world and say , ‘ We really ought to look at what 's happening here , or what might happen there , ’ could you think of one outstanding example ? |
| 24 | So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings . |
| 25 | We read our lines together for the first time — but never as we would do them on the actual recording . |
| 26 | A Reagan administration in Sacramento , the voters were led to believe , would do something about the rising tide of crime in the state , would take people off welfare and put them to work and , above all else , it would get the government off the people 's back . |
| 27 | Louis would do anything for a pretty girl . ’ |
| 28 | In that case the Lapp had said he would do it for a few drinks if we had any with us . |
| 29 | I would do it in a nice way and then he might remember me and ask me out later . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I shall do nothing for the simple reason that — knowing Doreen — it would be a waste of time and effort . |