Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] we [vb mod] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd be much more impressed by some positive suggestions of what we might do cos I th you know , months ago I was browbeaten outside church over a lot of similar issues and I said then , you know |
| 2 | I have so looked forward to it , making all the things with Matey , and thinking of what we shall do with the money we make — which is stupid really , when I know that I could so easily give them so much more — But that would be nothing , for what I have done with Matey has been done by me , and not by Papa , for that is what giving them his money would mean . |
| 3 | We were able to get on with our routine work without too much drama unfolding around us , and we started to dream of what we would do when the war was over . |
| 4 | He wrote what became a celebrated memorandum to Cordell Hull , the secretary of state , in which he declared that he was " thrilled by the idea of using iran as an example of what we could do by an unselfish American policy . |
| 5 | All I do know is that we 're very conscious a great deal of money 's been spent by the Council and by the Trust to try and make the place outside more inviting those tubs been put there er they been planted etc there 's a lot of litter there we 've put litter bins there there 's taxi rank there there 's lot 's of things been put there I think the problem is it is n't the people who do that I mean it 's the people who actually do the litter and it 's quite clear that we do go out we do tidy up but it happens and it 's a case of balance of what we can do and what you ca n't do but we do work at it I can assure you . |
| 6 | They do n't know much of what we can do |
| 7 | As I have said , the European Community has failed to produce the legislation under which we could do that . |
| 8 | Christ has called us to step out by faith and this is one very small way in which we can do so . |
| 9 | ‘ There are several ways in which we can do this . |
| 10 | And there are certain circumstances in which we can do that . |
| 11 | We are a relatively small group and therefore are limited in what we can do . |
| 12 | It has elicited a number of interesting points on which we would do well to reflect . |
| 13 | Over the years , the experts seem to have got in all of a lather over what we should do to cleanse our skin properly . |
| 14 | As Moore sees it , questions as to what we ought to do are questions as to which actions are good , indeed best , as means . |
| 15 | So , if there are limits to what we can do , and if the development of technology brings costs as well as benefits , we now must face the second question : under what circumstances do we either develop or apply a particular technology ? |
| 16 | Right , so now we 've got round to what we can do for the casualty , let's have a look and see what the body 's trying to do here and then we 'll say how you 'll help them a bit more . |
| 17 | Mr Threlfall said : ‘ There is a physical limit to what we can do ; this was one of those unfortunate occasions . ’ |
| 18 | So today we reverted back to what we used to do and it 's traditional dishes which quite frankly , what we build empires on , sausages , mash and onions , steak pie , chips and peas . |
| 19 | I only wish I was clear as to what we will do myself , you may be sure . ’ |
| 20 | Er few problems with the job before we started or during the job er , come back to us for a six so far so we have to What we will do is drop them down and Er another problem with the job is we 're about three week 's behind er arranged for them to come in on Monday . |
| 21 | Paolo Guidi , president of Sprint International , said only that his company makes ‘ partnerships with people ’ , and Randall Tobias , chairman of AT&T International , said , ‘ I wo n't put constraints on what we might do . |
| 22 | The public debate about political priorities focuses far too much on what we can do for today 's consumption and far too little about what we invest in the future . |
| 23 | I think we should attempt to focus on what we can do with the scarce resources that are available to us . |
| 24 | Yeah but the favour we 're only touching on what we can do . |
| 25 | B : Say , what 're you doing [ implication ; " I 've got a suggestion about what we might do together " ] A : Well , we 're going out . |
| 26 | As the monsoon season ran its usual course in Snowdonia , anybody with any sense fled to warmer climes while the rest of us sat and talked about what we would do if it was n't raining . |
| 27 | Rebuck , now 38 , says that when Philip made the decision to work in advertising , his friends were shocked : ‘ It was the tail-end of the Sixties generation and most of us did n't have a clue about what we would do . |
| 28 | Me an ’ Gerry 'd build up the kitchen fire and we 'd sit there and talk about what we 'd do if we won the Irish Sweepstake . |
| 29 | so that really it 's to try and er get us thinking about what we could do |
| 30 | As I tried to think about what we should do , the day began to represent something we could work towards and almost look forward to , at a time when Waite 's kidnap had left us nothing to hope for . |