Example sentences of "[prep] what they [vb mod] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew why they had swept him from his horse and he was terrified of what they would do to him . |
| 2 | When pressed and asked , ’ What if British Steel refuses to change its policy after talking ? ’ the Opposition gave no indication of what they would do . |
| 3 | ‘ … this is only the beginning of what they will do ; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them ’ ( 11.6 ) . |
| 4 | It is not other people or outward events that cause harmful stress , but the way we perceive such external factors and our fears of what they will do to us . |
| 5 | Yet , the medicalization of health within our society has left people generally unaware of what they can do to maintain their own health . |
| 6 | Since they are presumed to be the only judges of how good their work is , no layman or other outsider can make any judgment of what they can do . |
| 7 | If children fear that their parents will stop loving them when they are naughty , they soon absorb the idea of what they must do . |
| 8 | It has to be done , thought Taliesin , torn between agony for Fergus and the knowledge of what they must do . |
| 9 | They first of all say they want local government to be more responsible , to be more trusted , to have more freedom , I then give them that freedom and then they complain that I 'm not telling local government what to do and I do n't intend to lay down every detail of what they should do . |
| 10 | I admit it sounds like a lot ; but that 's because everybody thinks of what they could do with it if it ended up in their bank account . |
| 11 | The secondary school to which they went on would then have an accurate record of what they could do , and could save a great deal of time at present wasted in the transition from one school to another . |
| 12 | It was n't as big a hit , but we 'd shown more about the scope of what they could do . ’ |
| 13 | Just like what they would do . |
| 14 | The aim is to test children both in what they know and in what they can do . |
| 15 | ‘ I can see I shall have to tell you more about Brownies before you believe in what they can do and do do . |
| 16 | Individually , workers may feel that they are severely limited , even powerless , in what they can do . |
| 17 | So although agencies can now see what sort of approach they should be making in women 's development policy , and are looking at their lives in their entirety — not just as baby machines , the agencies are restricted by the IMF and World Bank conditions in what they can do . |
| 18 | ‘ The problem with all these stars , ’ said Peter Fairley , ‘ was that the moment they started to know that we were interested in what they could do , and we started to investigate how they did things , it just went . |
| 19 | He was saying that the gods had so far been unkind , that they might turn kind , but that what the gods did for him was secondary to what they might do for Niki , a remark that turned out to be prophetic . |
| 20 | Their measure of their health status was related to what they could do , rather than to the presence of current disease or conditions . |
| 21 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 22 | When the time came there was not much doubt as to what they should do . |
| 23 | It insists that this is therefore the best guide to what they should do , that it points out the right direction for continuing and developing that practice . |
| 24 | P. A friendly person , someone who is good to session with , someone who can appreciate someone else 's skating and not to judge them as to what they can do but also who they are and how they are . |
| 25 | When you are talking about 12,000 children , many only young teenagers , there is a limit to what they can do for themselves and the help of the aid community is obviously vital . |
| 26 | There is a difference , I think , between making children feel responsible for righting the wrongs of the world that we as adults have created , but at the same time to be able to enable them to think constructively as to what they can do . |
| 27 | While ‘ real consciousness ’ might be what people in a given group actually think , it does not necessarily correspond to what they will do or how they will respond to changes either in their situation or in the information they have . |
| 28 | Children should be judged on what they can do and on what they know , not on who they are . |
| 29 | Given the conditions in which most teachers are working , and given that they are human beings — that is , they have limitations on what they can do , and how well and how fast they can do it — they could not be feeling otherwise than rushed and confused , nor acting otherwise than fallibly . |
| 30 | My plea to the Government , therefore , is that they concentrate on what they can do , and that is to improve the long-term prospects for the economy . |