Example sentences of "he [modal v] do [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | IBM Corp 's new chief executive is being swamped with gratuitous advice on what he should do to turn the company around , but that coming from Stephen Smith , who has tracked the computer industry for PaineWebber Inc for 11 years , is probably worth more of Gerstner 's attention than most . |
| 2 | I wondered whether the fact that the buildings had collapsed , were no longer the ordered haven of childhood , helped him to understand that whatever he might do to reinstate the fabric of the place , he would not succeed in re-creating the past . |
| 3 | It seemed there was nothing he could do to persuade the child to cease her disobedience , nothing he could say which would frighten her sufficiently for her to come to her senses . |
| 4 | There was little he could do to combat the hostility of the media , but after the frustrations of his first term he decided to face up to the bureaucracy and the legislature . |
| 5 | Although Kennedy increased the size of US forces in Germany there was nothing he could do to bring the Berlin Wall down , or to stop those who tried to cross it from being shot . |
| 6 | Surely there was something he could do to alleviate the suffering of this creature ? |