Example sentences of "[vb mod] do [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 A slave must do as his master bids . ’
2 Oddly I was uneasy about this , worrying over what I should do for my friends when I got home .
3 But suddenly she woke up , ousted Ven from her head , and wondered what she should do with her day .
4 That it was David Mellor , a Major crony , has reinforced fears that this is a prime minister who ca n't judge what he should do with his time .
5 On the twenty-ninth day , being the day before he departed , he called for Doña Ximena , and for the Bishop Don Hieronymo , and Don Alvar Fañez Minaya , and Pero Bermudez , and his trusty Gil Diaz ; and when they were all five before him , he began to direct them what they should do after his death ; and he said to them , Ye know that King Bucar will presently be here to besiege this city , with seven and thirty Kings whom he bringeth with him , and with a mighty power of Moors .
6 Well , I 'm sorry , if I was in my workplace I would n't be happy representing a member and then be told by the employer , I 'm not required to tell you why you 've lost your appeal and I do n't think this is something we should do within our own organization on our own members .
7 I do n't have to ask you what I should do in my spare time , and — and I suppose now you wo n't want to help me find my mother , and that 's all right with me , I do n't care ! ’
8 Hey , that might do for my chairs do you think ?
9 Karen King — because she was English , Jessica insisted — had given over even thinking about them , let alone imagining what they might do with their hard , lean bodies and their tired , rope-burned hands , had given over bothering to deny she 'd had such fantasies .
10 What the HIRTA might do to your avionics is of course a different matter .
11 Some of them you you might do in your head , like you think , Well I know twenty percent is one fifth , so I 'll just divide that by five and that 's seven pounds .
12 ‘ Well ye 'll do as yer telt ! ’ she said with a frown .
13 ‘ Yow 'll do as yer told ! ’ he was told .
14 That 'll do as your business card .
15 What a perplexing puzzler like Puzznic 'll do to his brain , then , is a mystery .
16 You have three days to do what we say , otherwise we 'll do to your father what we did to Valesio .
17 Otherwise I think we 'll do without our Rice Krispies !
18 I think we 'll do without our Rice Krispies , if we ca n't manage to get some .
19 Yeah I like snowball , I do n't mind that that 'll do for my Christmas drink Is that half or a ?
20 hard luck , no I 'd like to see what he 'd do with his stuff if he had to pay with it , pay for it himself .
21 After all , I do n't know what I 'd do without your father . ’
22 Yesterday I did another radio mix , just the kind of dodgy old thing you 'd do in your bedroom , and they were videoing it .
23 I can only tell you what I think I 'd do in your position and it is this .
24 Here was one investigation she could do on her own .
25 US and British officials saw Soviet expressions of displeasure as ritualistic , and the least that Moscow could do for its allies in Nicaragua and Cuba .
26 His grandfather had been sent to the stars in 1912 , when they still knew how to raise megaliths " the old-fashioned way " , which Ranteallo ruefully confessed to us was damn well more than he could do for his father now .
27 ‘ In despair , Rol asked them what he could do for his people except lead them in the killing of others in the land .
28 Facing up to your own problems , and trying to resolve them , may be the best thing you could do for your child .
29 There was n't much more Ma Katz could do to her face that Elder Seth had n't , but lines of pain opened up , and Jazzbeaux felt her vision distorting .
30 It had been born of an instinctive recognition of the damage he could do to her emotional independence and , paradoxically , exacerbated by the way he had deprived her of himself by having her dismissed from that job ; finally there had been his open contempt when they had met again …
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