Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] do [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah you 're okay , you can go swimming , it should n't do you any harm . |
| 2 | Sorry to start that way up , but still that 's the way , should n't do it that way I get confused whether I 'm putting the right word down . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not sure we should n't do it all outside . |
| 4 | ’ The good news is that he may not do you any positive harm . |
| 5 | See it again , right , I 'll just do it this time without talking it through , and you can just watch |
| 6 | The man continued to look at her strangely , and then at last he said , ‘ It 'll not do you any good , love . ’ |
| 7 | Well you 'll probably do it all in one go . |
| 8 | ‘ Might even do you some good in another direction , my lad ! |
| 9 | ‘ No , but all the other proof was in West Germany so he could not do anything more . |
| 10 | When Dr Maxwell came along a little later , I asked him about it , and although he pooh-poohed it a bit and said it was all a lot of nonsense , I did get him to admit it could n't do me any actual harm to go to the classes and do exercises . |
| 11 | ‘ Willoughby tried , but he could n't do anything much , ’ Jo-Ann said . |
| 12 | Some days er they worked longer hours and harder work and there were other days which er which erm they could n't do anything much , just potter around in the buildings . |
| 13 | Although the latter once jocularly remarked to Briand , the Premier , that in his relationship with Joffre ‘ apart from sleeping together , we could n't do anything more to show our intimacy ’ and although every afternoon — as part of the Chantilly ritual — he accompanied the Commander-in-Chief on his post-prandial stroll , Joffre and his coterie were as jealous as Turks of the brother-general placed so dangerously near the throne . |
| 14 | He , He went into hospital and they said erm that it 's the muscles of his heart that were affected they could n't do anything more for him ! |
| 15 | that the local MP and the , and the , could n't do anything more about it . |
| 16 | Ideally we might have preferred a juvenile actress , but with the restrictions on the hours children can work in Television we knew we could n't do it that way . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Oh no , you could n't do it that way otherwise the horse would be certain to win . ’ |
| 18 | Well it holding it in pawn , waiting for somebody to ask him to have a drink , and invariably somebody would but if they did ask him they 'd always ask him back next time you know if they could n't do it this time . |
| 19 | ‘ He could n't do it any more . ’ |
| 20 | it was being reorganized and the lady who did it could n't do it any more and would one of us like to take the |
| 21 | Well I 'd either do it that way or pay , erm , credit cards . |
| 22 | In fact , we would rather do it that way . |
| 23 | He would not do her any real harm . |
| 24 | It would not do you any credit to stay on in Munich without an appointment . |
| 25 | Erm one card would really do me some good . |
| 26 | As a moral imperative , far from being incommensurable with his previous considerations , it merely adds others similar in kind ; he now has to see things from his parents ' viewpoint as well as his own , consider their health and resources , ask himself how much they have done to arouse his gratitude or his rancour , whether his staying would really do them any good , whether he can get on with them without quarrelling , and add all this to the information which he must assimilate before he lets the needle of his internal compass finally settle in the direction of Bali or of home . |
| 27 | They would n't do me any good with my Service I grant-you that . ’ |
| 28 | I 'd be more worried about Tony , cos I do n't think Tony 's as well wise as Paul is , in some ways really for both of them it would n't do them any harm you know because look , they 're , they 're , they 're not typical lads in many ways |
| 29 | It would n't do him any harm to take this ungoverned creature for a short jaunt in the fields and the experience would give him a splendid ascendancy over Inspector Burden when he walked into the station at nine-thirty . |
| 30 | would n't do him any harm , but it would n't half make him go ah , cos it 's dead minty |