Example sentences of "[pron] could do [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Fielding led me back to our table I made a powerfully worded verbal pass at a salacious waitress , who appeared to be all for it but then came down with some deep sorrow in the kitchen , and when I burst through the double-doors to console her two men in sweat-grey T-shirts assured me there was nothing I could do for the poor child . |
| 2 | Do n't look at me like that , it was the best I could do on the spur of the moment . ’ |
| 3 | Lying about my family 's social status came easily enough , but there was nothing I could do about the more visible signs of poverty . |
| 4 | ‘ There was nothing I could do about the accident . |
| 5 | and he said well it was the least I could do under the circumstance . |
| 6 | Pleasant to browse but unwise to buy as I could do without the extra weight of heavy tomes for the long haul after the town up past Hay Bluff to the Gospel Pass — a climb to more than 1,750 ft . |
| 7 | I think I could do with the rest . ’ |
| 8 | I could do with the company and Mrs Manners has still got enough turkey to feed the third world and the poor Albanians . |
| 9 | ’ I could do with the rent ! ’ |
| 10 | Mark discharged himself , came on to the film set and proceeded to tell me what I could do with the part , the film and the clinic . ’ |
| 11 | I could do with the company . |
| 12 | Again I I showed all due diligence I could do in the situation . |
| 13 | Auntie Lou said she could sew a piece of material on the bottom to lengthen the skirt but there was nothing she could do about the top and Carrie cried a little , privately , not because the dress was no use but because her mother should have guessed how much she had grown . |
| 14 | There seemed nothing she could do about the deeply dismaying , sick feelings of nervous excitement whenever she was anywhere near his tall , rangy figure . |
| 15 | Since there had been clearly nothing she could do about the situation , Laura had been forced to buckle down and do what she could to keep the twins happy . |
| 16 | She could do with the extra money . ’ |
| 17 | Herta sometimes looks as though she could do with the odd impotent interlude . |
| 18 | Coun Fishwick said there was not a lot she could do with the proclamation , adding it was county council business anyway . |
| 19 | She could do without the Romance and the Glamour , the heart-stopping uniform and the V.C. |
| 20 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 21 | Well these poor blighters who got flooded who could do with the wind to dry the houses out could n't they ? |
| 22 | Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ? |
| 23 | I think I 'll give you some homework that you could do for the week . |
| 24 | like this , but that , I 'd done , you know , you could do on the typewriter and that so |
| 25 | Well I was I 've looked , Peter Davis , North Yorkshire , I 've just glanced down the table at certainly at the er my Greater York district colleagues , and er certainly we er are rather surprised that er you have the impression that you have the impression that er erm we could do without the erm the new settlement , quite clearly erm erm certainly Harrogate , Selby , er and Ryedale , and the County Council , believe the the new settlement is absolutely essential , erm and I think that 's erm erm certainly a matter of agreement between er us and those three districts , it 's absolutely essential . |
| 26 | We could do without the stop the buses altogether . |
| 27 | We could do at the end of the lesson . |
| 28 | I agree with the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington ( Mr. Forman ) that by far the most useful thing that we could do in the short run would be to fund a payments union among the commonwealth of independent states so that they could at least have a currency in which to trade with one another . |
| 29 | And that erm led to a lot of people coming down to the probation office , asking , you know , what if anything they could do about the noise up there . |
| 30 | The great Labour party — which brought together militants , because it thought that they knew what they could do for the working people of this country — is scornfully setting democracy aside . |