Example sentences of "[pron] i [modal v] do for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Harold there 's nothing I can do for you , but a Cadbury 's boost |
| 4 | The plain fact of the matter is , there is nothing I can do for your wife . ’ |
| 5 | If there is something I might do for you in return ? ’ |
| 6 | Ex-presidential candidate Ross Perot told The Wall Street Journal he did n't mean he would take John Akers ' job when he told TV host Larry King that ‘ If there 's something I could do for IBM , well , I owe them that forever . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Is there something I can do for you ? ’ she snapped peevishly . |
| 8 | ‘ And now , ’ he said , having mopped up the last crumb , ‘ now , what is it I can do for you ? |
| 9 | What I 'll do for you deliberately er if the situation changes between now and a fortnight 's time after you 've sp spoken to your accountant , I 'll probably look at twenty , thirty and forty just to give you an illustration of what the expectations er are by , by putting a sum in there . |
| 10 | You might be surprised to find that it only means an increase in activity of fifteen percent of what you 're currently doing , to achieve something that 's in year three , that you 've got as year three , and you might think , ooh , that 's what I 'll do for year two . |
| 11 | Oddly I was uneasy about this , worrying over what I should do for my friends when I got home . |
| 12 | ‘ Ask not , ’ Carnelian taunted , ‘ what you can do for me , but what I can do for you . ’ |
| 13 | See what I can do for yer . |
| 14 | But perhaps it 's more a question of what I can do for you ? ’ |
| 15 | It 's more what I can do for you . |
| 16 | I 'd like to give you this which spells out clearly my status and what I can do for you , it simply states that I work for |
| 17 | Oh I know what I could do for that . |
| 18 | I did n't recognise him , nor did there seem to be anything I could do for him . |
| 19 | Nevertheless if there is anything I can do for you in the way of friendship , now or in the future , I hope you will not hesitate to call upon me . |
| 20 | If there is anything I can do for you … ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Is there anything I can do for you , my boy ? ’ |
| 22 | His last question to bishops on their ad limina visits was always the courteous : ‘ And now , is there anything I can do for you ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Well , of course , anything I can do for the poor girl — ’ she began . |
| 24 | And you know , anything I can do for you — just ask . |
| 25 | ‘ Anything I can do for you ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Is there anything I can do for you ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Is there anything I can do for you in return ? ’ |
| 28 | Is there anything I can do for you ? ’ |
| 29 | Is there anything I can do for you before I go ? ’ |