Example sentences of "thing you [modal v] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's just the sort of thing you would do — to make yourself look big — to make me look a fool . |
| 2 | The great thing about library music is that it is fairly non-commital : you can go in all kinds of directions and you 're asked to provide music in a certain style , which may not be the sort of thing you would do naturally , but it 's still enjoyable to do . |
| 3 | On the other hand , if you were Andrus and for some reason you decided to start a campaign of your own , and you were , like him , a Copt , the first thing you would do would be to go to a bank and make proper financial arrangements . |
| 4 | Er , Erm , another thing you might do , you might take up a hobby that you 've got to think about . |
| 5 | The sort of thing you might do was , if you 've got a decision , is you might want to look t at the of that decision , okay ? |
| 6 | The kind of thing you ought to do with with mum is like , you could probably go down one Sunday and have a , have a , you know , have a lunch . |
| 7 | Facing up to your own problems , and trying to resolve them , may be the best thing you could do for your child . |
| 8 | And after all , perhaps joining up was the best thing you could do ; you 'll be among people . |
| 9 | To be a hero on the field and to aspire to the red jersey of Wales was far and away the most dashing thing you could do . |
| 10 | They just think it 's wrong , it 's the worst thing you could do . |
| 11 | No that 's the worst thing you could do . |
| 12 | Well the thi one thing you could do is go and talk to one or two admissions tutors of the social work courses . |
| 13 | ‘ I know you 're tight , Woody , ’ Finlayson said , ‘ but the only thing you could do for us now would be to shoot the old man . |
| 14 | The smallest thing you could do would be to help a poor injured man towards the comfort of an inn ! ’ |
| 15 | The only thing you could do to this programme is |
| 16 | The diesel check , described by one test station owner as ‘ the worst possible thing you could do to any engine , ’ was suspended yesterday pending the results of an inquiry into the damage claims . |
| 17 | The only thing you could do is get the , you know that kind of plastic edging you can get for wall tiles |
| 18 | and pick what they thought , was the best thing you could do , and then do n't , do n't tell you but get them made . |
| 19 | The only other thing you could do |
| 20 | No that 's the worst thing you could do . |
| 21 | The best thing you could do is ask at the |
| 22 | Of course , if for any reason you have to leave your garden for several months , the best thing you can do is to sow a suitable green manure . |
| 23 | If it has n't , the only thing you can do — apart from continuing your garage-less existence , or renting one from a car-less neighbour — is to convert part of the ground floor of your house to construct a built-in garage , with all the upheaval and loss of living space which that entails . |
| 24 | So if you 're going to plan ahead , now , which I think is the only thing you can do in the circumstances … what I suggest is a with-profits endowment policy linked to a seven-year maturity date with yearly incrementals — optional , if you like , or you can build them in , it depends how optimistic you are about your career , ha ha — leaving a little bit of the schools fees to pay at the time , but there will be a big chunk taken out , that 's for sure … and do it off monthly standing orders of around … let's say … five hundred a month ? |
| 25 | Many times the chub take slugs so viciously they rip them clean off the hook , and the only thing you can do to improve matters is to thread the line through the full length of the slug with a baiting needle , attach the hook and pull it back so that one end of the slug is lying in the bend of the hook . |
| 26 | If you are rejected the most constructive thing you can do is to phone or write and ask for the reasons why . |
| 27 | The best thing you can do for your skin , throughout the year , is keep it moist with creams . |
| 28 | Yours will most probably be the arms she needs at this point , and the best thing you can do for her is to show that you share her grief , and that as far as possible you are going to be the rock on which she can lean while the sands of her life are shifting so frighteningly beneath her feet . |
| 29 | But the one thing you can do is to think like us . |
| 30 | And the worst thing you can do is to screw it all up by putting a lot of technique all over it ! ' |