Example sentences of "[vb mod] do [pron] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will my hon. Friend agree to tell the chairman of British Rail that he must do everything that he possibly can to improve the standard of service on that line for my constituents before 1995 ? |
| 2 | The illustrations must do something that the text has not done or that the text can not do : ‘ You must never illustrate exactly what is written . |
| 3 | The shadow cabinet has agreed that while Labour must oppose the Government on various aspects of the treaty , it should do nothing that would lead to its fall . |
| 4 | But it is one of our most valuable , and we should do everything that we can to support it . |
| 5 | Thou shalt do everything that the church says thou shalt not . |
| 6 | Let's do one that might sound . |
| 7 | I 'll do anything that you do and you do anything that I do . ’ ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If I could write like her … or ride like Sam or Nolan … if I could do anything that well , I 'd be happy . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm a pretty perceptive person , I understand people quite well , but I never dreamt that my mother could do anything that would damage my daughter so greatly . |
| 10 | ‘ You ought to do something that 'll bring some proper money in , ’ she told him , ‘ and take that stuff out the back where I 'm not forever tripping over it . ’ |
| 11 | Assuming it was impractical to produce immediately a system which would do everything that personnel management wanted , which were the most important factors ? |
| 12 | I would do anything that was necessary and reasonable . ’ |
| 13 | Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning . |
| 14 | We will do everything that we can in the area . |
| 15 | er Apollo Leisure had decided that they would like to have arts and science under the same roof , er the arts has been something that 's considered an acceptable cultural pastime , and people will go out at weekends , take the family and will do something that , they would look at an exhibition , er or they would go to the theatre , whereas in science , there is n't really anything that you can do as a social or cultural pastime . |
| 16 | ‘ The principle is that once we find we can do something that makes us feel good , we repeat it , ’ he explains . |
| 17 | So if we can do something that may trick the would-be burglar into thinking there 's someone in , then he may well go somewhere else . |
| 18 | We 're nothing but a bunch of museum pieces : machines can do everything that we can do , only faster and cheaper . |
| 19 | Gary says : In gliding , disabled people can do everything that other people can do . |
| 20 | Local authorities can do nothing that is not expressly set out in some Act of Parliament . |
| 21 | One day you will wake up ( it may be a nice sunny Sunday morning ) and you will luxuriate in the fact that you can do anything that you want to do — anything that takes your fancy — and there is no one else to consider . |
| 22 | And one of the reasons why the black women in Liverpool put this exhibition together erm and they tried to pick out different kinds of jobs that women had to show that black women could do those jobs , and they were saying look , there 's lots of stereotypes erm about the kinds of jobs that black and Asian women can do that fit in with their personalities , and you know the world is wide open and you are able to do this and you do n't have to be erm a singer or a model or erm or erm erm a runner , you know , the whole stereotypes in terms of what black people are good at and they 're saying let's break away from this , let's show the kinds of things that we can do and we can do anything that we set our minds to and erm the exhibition is very positive , actually . |