Example sentences of "[vb mod] do with [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Now I know what you should do with all that free time you have : acting .
2 Then all of a sudden these strange people started coming out of record companies who were involved in the video end of it and deciding this is what we should do with that song and sort of you know these were songs that we had planned and recorded and and all of a sudden these people were changing them .
3 That is the first thing you should do with any burn , put people in a cold bath , anything to keep the burns cold because otherwise they can keep burning in for something like five hours .
4 Again a legal liberty ( that is something that a man may do with legal justification ) may form the basis of blackmail .
5 Thus benefits such as a welfare system or a national free education system should be given to all people who may do with these things as they wish .
6 Erm I think what I 'll do with these handouts is I 'll let you take some for absent friends and then any that 're left over are put in the reading group , shall I ?
7 ‘ You could do with one yourself , Sara , ’ commented Rodney .
8 And it just so happens that I mentioned to one of my doormen that particular night that I could do with one of those machines to keep a careful check on my blood pressure .
9 I could do with one of those .
10 Earning money is becoming a priority I 'm trying to sit on — I could do with one big hit , though ! ’
11 ‘ I could do with one myself . ’
12 WHAT THEY COULD DO WITH ONE BILLION POUNDS
13 I could do with one of those in my life . ’
14 I could do with one or two .
15 Oh I could do with one of them !
16 Could do with one of them for a long time , could n't I ?
17 That 'll put me half a morning ahead , and I could do with that . ’
18 We were convinced the single would go storming into the Top 20 … it was the best we could do with that photo session … ‘
19 When we say and we 've often said it , well we could do with this , we could do with that like we used to say , we wanted the swimming pool well that cost an awful lot of money !
20 ‘ Jeez , I could do with that cup of tea , ’ Mrs Bennet said , putting her hands over her ears to shut out the tumult above , and Anne decided to go upstairs to see if the gas was still on .
21 Let us think what we could do with that £2.5 billion in the health or education services .
22 So I er , I politely told him what he could do with that , well , I was eating his dinner and I could n't be too rude to him , but erm , you know , when er when , when confronted , I do n't give ground over that kind of thing .
23 I said to the woman , I said , oh I could do with that myself .
24 Yeah well at the moment we could do with that in the bank could n't we ?
25 I could do with that one .
26 Oh he could do with that cos Emily 's always asking me
27 Several nurses demonstrated an awareness of this inadequacy by adding comments such as : ‘ unable to tolerate proper compression ’ ; ‘ refuses further compression ’ ; ‘ can only tolerate light compression ’ ; ‘ could do with shaped Tubigrip ’ ; ‘ afraid of possible ischaemia ’ .
28 Could do with bigger buttons
29 One wonders what they could do with five loaves and two fishes …
30 She then tested his creativity by asking him to write down all the things he could do with various objects such as a brick or a shoe , and all the things that would happen if certain events suddenly occurred , such as everyone in the world losing their sight or having to walk on all fours .
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