Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] do a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may need to do a bit of work on the accent , but McIntosh is beginning to sound like a natural Scottish no.8 . |
| 2 | ‘ He should have done a bit of minding years ago . ’ |
| 3 | We scored an away goal and then two at home , and I feel perhaps we should have done a bit better . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We scored an away goal and two at home and I feel we should have done a bit better . |
| 5 | She should have done a bit more than that actually . |
| 6 | We trained on an artificial pitch for two days this week and we should have done a lot better . ’ |
| 7 | In fact er they should have done a lot better , but a lot of Conservative voters did n't bother going out to vote cos it was a foregone conclusion . |
| 8 | ‘ Huh ! ’ he grunted , and , she swiftly realised , must have done a lightning analysis of what she had said , because in his next breath he was commenting aggressively , ‘ So you 've definitely decided to throw Travis over ? ’ |
| 9 | Hank must have done a robbery to have so much money — he must have — there had been one or two bad ones recently — a Chinese grocer had been shot to death , in one instance . |
| 10 | ‘ You must have done a thing or two working in that club , ’ Hitch said , still looking at her . |
| 11 | To qualify for a course at the ICO officers must have done a minimum of ten years ' service . |
| 12 | Mrs Smythe looked sympathetic and said : ‘ I was thinking , your husband 's such a kind gentle person — he might like to do a bit of voluntary work . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll have to do a fall , ’ Arthur muttered . |
| 14 | Well he 'll have to work very he 'll have to do a lot of work |
| 15 | ‘ If you want to keep your job , you 'll have to do a lot better than that . ’ |
| 16 | I 'll have to do a pregnancy test , but until we get the result , I think it safer to keep you in bed . ’ |
| 17 | O.K. I 'll try do a version , but it does effect on Q P 5 an Q P6 you see as well coughing . |
| 18 | She handed this creature to Roland , who took it as he might have done a kitten , cradling it in the crook of his elbow , and adding to it , in turn , the nightcapped one , in tiny white pleats and broderie anglaise , and the dark-headed one , severe in dark peacock . |
| 19 | If I 'd done English , geography and history , I might have done a lot better , but they just did n't seem to bother about you if you were doing science — perhaps it was an old-fashioned school . |
| 20 | As one officer said to Levi : ‘ If we nicked everybody we thought might have done a long-firm , we 'd never finish our paperwork , the cases might never come to court , and if they did , they 'd never have the room to try them . ’ |
| 21 | You never know , you might have to do a top of an |
| 22 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
| 23 | But anyway , we created that whole idea that no-one could photograph him , no-one could do do a story on him unless it was going to be a cover story , which was outrageous because he was virtually unknown in America . |
| 24 | How to set up : Ask friends , family or neighbours in the same situation as you if they 'd like to do a babysitting swap , and take it from there . |
| 25 | I probably spent about $100,000 on trying to get documents out through the act , and I 'd hate to do a value for money survey on what I got . ’ |
| 26 | that you could have done a bit more last year |
| 27 | I knew so many rotters before him , I could have done a degree in them . |
| 28 | As Merrill looked at him questioningly , he went on , ‘ Knowing , by then , just how you felt about the circumstances of Elise 's death , you could have done a lot of damage . ’ |
| 29 | How many of these locks do you think you 'd have done a day of the cylinder lock ? |
| 30 | He 'd have done a par about the lead in his pencil if you 'd asked him — a stick and a half — a column — whatever you needed ; and all of it full of wit and erudition . ’ |