Example sentences of "[modal v] do with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Eldorado was pulled forward and rushed and I think that 's the last thing you should do with a soap . |
| 2 | She stared bleakly at the damask cloth she had traced her fingers over as if it might hold the answer to what she should do with the rest of her life after tonight . |
| 3 | The sailor 's personal log might not only record what has happened on the journey so far , it might also speculate about what the crew should do with the merman they 've caught in their nets ; it might contain thoughts about food and the way it is stored on board ship ; it might suggest new ways of storing food . |
| 4 | For years he and his father before him had endured advice from well-meaning lunatics as to what he should do with the place — concreting the stones , or letting archaeologists burrow under them with their excavations , or digging a defensive moat round it — and Sir Edmund Antrobus , Bart , had had enough . |
| 5 | What does the right hon. and learned Gentleman suggest that those apprentices should do with the training to which they committed a lot of their time ? |
| 6 | That 's what they 'll do with the Radio News Network . |
| 7 | That 's what they 'll do with the Radio News Network . |
| 8 | But if the tyre had not been expanded enough , we 'd have to have levers and gently lever and hammer it on , something in the same way as you 'd do with a bicycle tyre . |
| 9 | She shut her bedroom door , knowing fate had decreed that the book she was reading should be resting in the sitting-room , leaving her with nothing to do but make her bed , sit on it , lie on it , unmake it , jump on it , push it round the floor — there were limits to what you could do with a bed , and it was the only piece of furniture in the room . |
| 10 | I could do with a friend . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You looked as if you could do with a sit-down , ’ said the boy 's mother . |
| 12 | ‘ She could do with a bit of growing up , ’ observed Davyd , the shrewd Welsh gardener . |
| 13 | Looks like all of us could do with a bit of both . ’ |
| 14 | It could do with a bit of script-editing but satellite sceptics expecting a botch-job held together by sticky-backed plastic will be pleasantly surprised . |
| 15 | Though shooting 's too good for them , if you ask me , we 're too soft in this country , we could do with a bit of Hitler here I think sometimes instead of the namby-pamby way we go on … . ’ |
| 16 | It should n't be difficult , there 's plenty of farms could do with a bit of help with men away at the war . |
| 17 | She 's in her early forties , she does n't drink and , frankly , could do with a bit of peace and quiet . |
| 18 | Cos presumably there must be an awful lot of wealthy old age pensioners about as well who , who could do with a bit less er , from the state because they 've got plenty of their own , er and give a bit more to people who do n't ? |
| 19 | Neither of us , it would seem , is much of a leg man , but I suppose I could do with a bit more than I get . |
| 20 | ‘ This one 's got brass handles , which could do with a bit of a clean . |
| 21 | ‘ You look as if you could do with a bit of help … ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , I do n't know , ’ I said — ‘ I think I could do with a bit of exorcism ! ’ |
| 23 | Jane could do with a bit of help in the kitchen and you know you are the children 's favourite baby-sitter . |
| 24 | ‘ We could do with a bit more interest from the Greens . |
| 25 | Yeah , dad would say , not enough garlic in there , that could do with a bit of cauli-head in there and I will you |
| 26 | I could do with a bit more . |
| 27 | He was gormless , spoke in a funny nasal accent and looked as if he could do with a kick up the backside . |
| 28 | I want you to pick up your phone and call me now cos I could do with a couple of phone calls so pick it up now O nine O four six four one six four one . |
| 29 | I could do with a couple of those . |
| 30 | She still felt a bit wobbly on her legs and she knew too that she could do with a holiday . |