Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [pron] [modal v] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | And probably a book or a crossword puzzle or something you could do when you were down there , you know . |
| 2 | Regardless of who we are or what we may do in life all of us have an upper limit to the stress that our bodies can take . |
| 3 | I bring the conversation round to our prisoners , but he does n't know where they were taken , or what we might do when someone finally comes . |
| 4 | Or what we could do , well , what I mean is , maybe would n't do any harm going down to the pub tonight to see if the others are there , only a quick drink mind , we ca n't be sure what they 're like yet — ’ |
| 5 | Or what we could do , if you say these this dose makes you a bit drowsy , we could give you the same stuff but in a lower dose . |
| 6 | ‘ They do n't realise the speed of the men players or what they can do with the ball . |
| 7 | And there 's not a lot of co-ordination between what she 's currently doing and what the children did last year , or what they will do with another teacher next . |
| 8 | If he can only argue to himself that they seem ’ interesting' it is highly likely that he does not really know why he is putting them in , or what he will do with the answers when he gets them . |
| 9 | Until fairly recently I do n't think people have understood the design process or what it can do for the success of their companies . |
| 10 | Can it market itself more effectively to its potential customers , many of whom are unclear about what factoring is or what it can do for their company ? |
| 11 | Or what I might do is make a couple of these up but fill them out a bit more . |
| 12 | I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners . |
| 13 | So far AMP executives are not sure where the Pearl is going wrong nor what they would do about it , other than perhaps improve the British group 's technology and have more centralisation of the selling operations . |
| 14 | The Government wish to discuss neither where we are on the economy nor what we can do about it . |
| 15 | There was nothing to say and nothing we could do . |
| 16 | Bedroom has got a , it 's in an alcove so you 'll have that piece where it 's bottom of the stairs or wherever , I mean , the , stand on slip mats you 're gon na get that because of the , the airing cupboard is part of the hall , part of the bedroom and nothing you can do about that one , and on the wall it 's just gon na be one length of each room , cut off , perfect , , actually they do n't normally do that , they usually just the measurement , cos I not , never understood why they do n't have measurements there all standard , you guarantee use the one strip of another roll |
| 17 | And then it was mammoth time and nothing she could do about it . |
| 18 | And nothing he could do . |
| 19 | And nothing I could do would stop it . ’ |
| 20 | And nothing I could do would hold them apart … |
| 21 | There is a little evidence that the final choice lay between George Chase , the Bishop of Ripon , mature in years and experience , a scholar , solid , stable , absolutely reliable , shy , and at times remote , and Michael Ramsey , without experience , untried , but one of the leaders of a party in the Church and someone who would do more to represent learning among the bench of bishops . |
| 22 | The problems arise when we do not pay conscious attention to those sights which are important and which we would do well to notice . |
| 23 | PROFESSOR GEORGE Teeling-Smith has provided the nation with a grim warning , and one we should do well to heed before we are all poisoned to death . |
| 24 | To be fair , I did n't , I did say we 're talking about parenting and one one could do another programme perhaps , focusing on the child or the needs and rights of the child in specific , but I think I 've been looking at the almost the scariness , I suppose , of being a parent , the challenges facing parents and the whole half hour , really , has not been about the joys of parenthood , so much as the problems of parenthood ! |
| 25 | Identical chain again let's have a methile group there and one there let's do one more of those a methile group there and a methile group there . |
| 26 | So everybody bar the PE teacher hated me playing football and everything they could do to stop me playing football they did . |
| 27 | With the power of her eyes alone she had compelled a glass of water to tip and spill its contents over the horrible Headmistress , and anybody who could do that could do anything . |
| 28 | I mean unless we had erm a change of government , say , and we had a women 's ministry where someone was putting a lot of thought into the role of women in our society , and what one could do to improve the position for women , but we have n't got a government that 's thinking in those kinds of ways . |
| 29 | And what we would do in those circumstances sir is if the late objections er the objections or representations that were to arrive er up to let us say five o'clock tomorrow , we would er deal with and then send on to you with copies to the objector of course . |
| 30 | And what we 'll do is I 'll tell you er what each dimension consists of . |