Example sentences of "[modal v] do a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But first , watching my time , I must run my hands over the edges of the blocks , must do a sun dance on top of one , pee from another , photograph the rest , and send thrilled gibberish to the lookout posts somehow built on to the sheer rock face across the valley . |
| 2 | I must do a sampler for Amy . |
| 3 | Because of the , the tinkering around it must do a bit of |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , I must do a pee . |
| 5 | The pressure from London , however , was unrelenting : ‘ Gould has been so clamorous lately ’ , Lear wrote to Jardine , ‘ at my not having done any Birds of Europe for him , that I must do a batch for him without further delay . ’ |
| 6 | Firstly you must select quotations carefully ; they must do a job efficiently . |
| 7 | You must do a Currie . ’ |
| 8 | I think you should do a survey , approach them with a clipper board as they come in and say |
| 9 | Perhaps the honourable member should do a competitiveness survey and go somewhere else for his queue , I do n't know but what I can tell the honourable gentleman is that even though there were losses in the banking industry for the last year there have been strongly offsetting rises in insurance and business services . |
| 10 | You should do a bit of practise . |
| 11 | " I know what you should do , " said Clelia , " you should do a Diploma of Education or whatever it 's called . |
| 12 | But it , is n't it an awful situation when you , when you , when you look at it that evidence indicates that the erm the number of people that are either now elderly infirm or sick and and clearly that they all will have to face this , this , this terrible burden and I can not understand because there is , this , there is , there is er a total disarray within the Conservative party , that all their er er back bench er MP s are making representations to their erm their leader who possibly may not be a leader tomorrow but as long as he 's the leader today , John Major that he should do a rethink and here they are er you know , members of the same party , continuing to support something which is so idiosyncratic that you know it 's really beyond belief , er Chairman . |
| 13 | If I can get near Mum I must tell her that she should do a spot of witnessing to the woman across from her . |
| 14 | There 's no doubt about it , the government should do a lot more and I 'm sorry to leave on this kind of basic note , the thing what really got was when they were talking about the coal miners and I mean , I know that particular area quite well , where they , they said we 'll put some money in for training ! |
| 15 | So I went upstairs and proposed that we should do a house-to-house on those two areas . |
| 16 | ‘ Me mum said I should do a show concentrating on Paul 's work , ’ says Paul ( left ) . |
| 17 | Now i , let's let's do a bit of definition of terms here , osteoporosis is what |
| 18 | Right , now let's do a bit of hot seating hey , where one of you will sit on a chair and pretend to be one of the characters and then the others will ask a question . |
| 19 | Eventually , he arrived at her side and , exasperated , flung his clubs down the bank and exclaimed crossly : ‘ Here , lady , for God 's sake , let's do a swap ; you have these damned clubs and let me have your fishing rod . |
| 20 | Are you painting the pictures when you 're asking the questions ? if you could , fine , good empathy , you doing a good fact find , right let's do a presentation shall we , let's see erm , ooh , you do n't know how to ask for the order do you ? |
| 21 | Yeah , let's do a system reset and |
| 22 | Let's do a chocolate one today and I think somebody else |
| 23 | Saying well here here 's an ugly little bugger let's do a swop ! |
| 24 | In the car let's do a gap Christopher |
| 25 | Let's do a deal . ’ |
| 26 | Let's do a record . |
| 27 | Eliot 's play aimed to penetrate beyond the ‘ frightful ’ to a deeper sense of universal evil — ‘ Any man might do a girl in ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 28 | For example , you might do a survey on potato crisps . |
| 29 | ‘ If so I 'll walk down with you , and then we might do a bit of visiting afterwards or even just go for a walk . ’ |
| 30 | I might do a bit of drawing . |