Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb mod] do " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ If you come after me I 'll do something to prevent you . ’ |
2 | Oh right , I 'll and then she 's moaning at him cos she wants to go and post it and you were mucking about with your C D thing or something and you were saying wait for me I 'll do this then I 'll miss the post . |
3 | Pass them to me I 'll do it now , some of those fruit dishes , there 's not enough room there for the glasses , I like them then I 'll take them . |
4 | If it was me I would do the same to them but two wrongs do n't make a right . ’ |
5 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
6 | They told me I could do it in Italian . |
7 | If Brook Street had n't convinced me I could do it , my confidence was so low I think I might have turned it down , ’ she says . |
8 | Also , if you purchase a machine from me I will do my best to help you find some new sites . |
9 | There was nothing I could do for it this time' ) , but ‘ Is She Really Going Out With Him ? ’ , formerly ditched , now finds itself reinstated , although apparently in a setting designed to tease out its reluctant humour once and for all . |
10 | I feel like that the situation in which Carrington was in is what God does and that I 'm part of that situation , and that he was going to die , and that there was nothing I could do about it . |
11 | I knew there was nothing I could do but that did n't seem to be the point . |
12 | There was nothing I could do . |
13 | There was nothing I could do . ’ |
14 | I just could n't get past this amp 's tendency toward a cold , smudgy type of overdrive and , what 's more , nothing I could do — including employing the ‘ Enhance ’ circuit — could warm or smooth it up . |
15 | ( There was nothing I could do about my khaki shorts except tighten the wizened Dan Dare belt that Brynley had passed on . ) |
16 | There was nothing I could do . ’ |
17 | I told him about Hirondelle and how Deacon Billingsley had lied about the yacht 's fate , and I confessed that though there was nothing I could do about a corrupt policeman , nor about what I strongly suspected had been the murder of a yacht 's crew , I was still curious about the island . |
18 | There was nothing I could do about it . ’ |
19 | Lying about my family 's social status came easily enough , but there was nothing I could do about the more visible signs of poverty . |
20 | Since there was nothing I could do about what was happening to my body , I decided — not altogether consciously — to ignore it and to interest myself in other , more spiritual matters . |
21 | ‘ There was nothing I could do , ’ conceded Graf . |
22 | ‘ There was nothing I could do about it . |
23 | ‘ There was nothing I could do about the accident . |
24 | I rang my dealer who told me there was nothing I could do about it . |
25 | There was nothing I could do but go on . |
26 | ‘ It used to get me so angry and I really wanted to protect my mother and help her , but I was only six at the time and there was nothing I could do . |
27 | Dawn 's nervousness while she was attached to my hand lasted for quite a while and there was nothing I could do about it other than reassure her . |
28 | ‘ It was not my choice , ’ she said , ‘ but there was nothing I could do . |
29 | There was nothing I could do . |
30 | I felt a lot of anger , but there was nothing I could do with it ; then it faded , until I started making some connections with feminism at the beginning of the seventies . |