Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them would do perfectly well in disciplines which are less idiosyncratic than English and have a more obvious international currency , like linguistics or economics or marketing . |
| 2 | I mean , I did , but I also had ‘ up ’ and ‘ down ’ , and none of them would do . |
| 3 | Living proof of this point are tonight 's audience , who have come here hoping for some of the screaming industrial hardcore MBM used to play , but nevertheless 90 per cent of them would do their unintentionally amusing Maori rugby player dance to a series of sampled farts if they thought they should . |
| 4 | But none of them would do for today . |
| 5 | One of them must do it . ’ |
| 6 | There was nothing any of them could do to save him , scattered and outnumbered now as they were . |
| 7 | The original band of brothers in the primal horde were excluded from sexual intercourse with any women by their father , and they formed a group , based on homosexual feelings , to perform the act that no one of them could do as a sole individual , namely , to kill their father . |
| 8 | ‘ Electricity , ’ said Gilbert again , and all except Rohmer turned to listen to him again , because there was nothing else any of them could do . |
| 9 | There was nothing any of them could do . |
| 10 | There was nothing any of them could do . |
| 11 | The investigation he 'd instigated would , by its nature and scope , prove far more efficient than anything either of them could do alone or in tandem . |
| 12 | Perhaps on this occasion , many of them will do the sensible thing and decide to stay at home . |
| 13 | As Linda Nochlin said , ‘ Not all women artists are feminists ; not all feminist artists wish to incorporate their feminist identity into their art works , and certainly , even if some of them do , none of them will do it in the same way ’ . |
| 14 | The Russian model , the Chinese Revolution , Paulo Freire — none of them will do . |
| 15 | The veterans are convinced they 're fit enough to make the jump … though some of them will do so in tandem with instructors … |
| 16 | Another two of them will do me then . |
| 17 | ‘ I wo n't allow myself to be tortured , ’ Raskolnikov tells Porfiry , but our sense of their three long encounters is that there 's nothing either of them can do about it . |
| 18 | But it will hurt , and each time it happens , it will feel like a shock , and a sad renewal of the realisation that a loved companion is beginning to drift away from her , and that there is nothing either of them can do about it . |
| 19 | Similarly , there are a number of actors who specialize in doing the commentary or ‘ voice over ’ on commercials : some of them can do a variety of voices and accents very convincingly , but others become extremely recognizable and , in effect , boringly over-exposed . |
| 20 | I 've got five or six people here who have been water-skiing all their lives , and there 's no way any of them can do it . ’ |
| 21 | erm If you were not so much an artist as a technician , you became as a technician interested in what this camera of yours could do , and therefore George Albert Smith , who was primarily I would say a technical man rather than an artist , he was very interested in the trick film . |
| 22 | Some of you might do as well . |
| 23 | Both of you might do him . |
| 24 | ‘ You chose me to deal with the dog because none of you would do it , ’ Anabelle answered . |
| 25 | And if some of you can do well out of it and it will help you keep your homes , because at the end of the day , without our home , where are we ? |
| 26 | So just put a paragraph in , saying why you 've chosen this particular bit , and in fact , all of you can do that . |
| 27 | But the sight of you will do her good . ’ |
| 28 | Only a woman can understand what 's wrong , and there 's nothing any of you could do . |
| 29 | Some of you could do with spreading out a little . |
| 30 | … ‘ You 've let me down , I never thought a son of mine would do that . ’ |