Example sentences of "[noun] you [modal v] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can cut money off , let's make some easy quick decisions about cutting money off , let's chop out the arts you could do that on one line easily and I think you have to look at the long term you have to look at what happens in terms of our culture , our civilization if you do do that , how people change and to me it 's about and that was raised last night too about how an saying that they had put a limit on the cost of opera tickets forty pounds , compared |
| 2 | But you 'll you 'll if you 're only doing the card you 'll do that much quicker . |
| 3 | It is clear , though , that if you decide to help your elderly parent or parents to apply for local authority grants , you are probably going to need to have great determination and infinite patience , and in the meantime there is a great deal you could do yourself to improve their comfort and living conditions in small but important ways . |
| 4 | When you all have to wear the same uniform , there is n't a great deal you can do to make yourself stand out from the crowd , but we did our best , washing and setting each other 's hair and sharing out what precious bits of makeup we owned . |
| 5 | That 's the problem , if it 's a one-off party there 's not a great deal you can do . |
| 6 | But there is a great deal you can do to ease your misery , alleviate the worst of the symptoms and let you join in most of the fine weather fun without spending your days in a darkened room with a crate of Kleenex . |
| 7 | that 's the maximum speed you can do |
| 8 | When you arrive at your aircraft you must do your visual checks . |
| 9 | If you want to phone Cobalt you can do it easily enough from London . ’ |
| 10 | With practice you will do it instinctively . |
| 11 | Both types of stretching increase flexibility , and as a basic rule you should do static stretching before exercise and both ballistic and static after exercise . |
| 12 | For long-range fishing you can do without the elasticity , for picking up a long length of line and planting a hook is difficult enough without any ‘ give ’ . |
| 13 | … I think the better you are at public relations the better you can do your job . |
| 14 | Can you imagine the harm you might do ? |
| 15 | They 've er they 've done fairly well there with Perhaps if it 's happen to be a time when I 'm busy Richard you might do it as vice chairman . |
| 16 | Harriet comments , ‘ When I come to your wedding in the slums of Brooklyn you can do me the honours . ’ |
| 17 | There 's nobody in this room who could n't win a sprint race against a sumo wrestler now , without any practice , even in stockinged feet you could do it . |
| 18 | If this is the case , then your first objective is to raise the level of work you can do before sliding too far into fatigue-producing anaerobic respiration . |
| 19 | ‘ Just in the work you can do for me . ’ |
| 20 | If horses are offered at very short odds , odds-on , then the statistics demonstrate that overall you could do quite well by betting on them . |
| 21 | No , seventeen pence you could do it yourself ! |
| 22 | Elizabeth , do you think on behalf of the forms committee you could do a tour around accounts and dig out the forms . |
| 23 | Here is a simple exercise you can do which will help you to become aware of how your breathing should feel . |
| 24 | An exercise you can do to get a picture of the difference between newspapers is to go to the library and read each daily in turn . |
| 25 | If you 're pregnant and sporty , you may be wondering what exercise you can do safely . |
| 26 | We all want to see the dance you can do . |
| 27 | Perhaps it 's the moaning you can do at the top , or the relief of getting down and into the warmth . |
| 28 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 29 | The truth is there is only so much preparation you can do . |
| 30 | ‘ The more preparation you can do , the cheaper the operation becomes . |