Example sentences of "[modal v] do is [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tell you what I would do is mix some slightly different colour green |
| 2 | What you can do is make some exaggerated moves such as lying on the floor , climbing through each other 's arms or whatever . |
| 3 | It is something I , I think inherent in the nature of philosophical questions , that probably the very best a philosopher can do is to test some way of seeking to formulate the nature of human knowledge and the relation of the thinking man to the world , erm test some way in which one seeks to render that explicit and self-conscious , to destruction . |
| 4 | What we can do is understand some of the general principles of how living things work , and why they exist at all . |
| 5 | The Vietnamese have finally got control of their own country after forty years of war ; defeated the Japs , the French , us , and the most powerful nation in the history of the planet in succession , with bicycles , guns and guts , been bombed back into the bronze age in the process and all you can do is spout some tired nonsense about little yellow men infiltrating the steaming jungles of the Nullarbor Plain and turning the Aussies into Commies ; I think a Highland League side winning the European Cup is marginally more likely . ’ |