Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this process of legislation , any changes the ministers may want to make look like concessions to the Opposition . |
| 2 | Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint . |
| 3 | You 'll have to let go of the book . |
| 4 | So you 'll have to make do with scones . ’ |
| 5 | ( I could n't get Tony Benn to comment on that one so we 'll have to make do with Radio One 's Janice Long ) . |
| 6 | ‘ He ca n't come so you 'll have to make do with me . |
| 7 | You 'll have to make do with this . ’ |
| 8 | That 's about the limit of my writing endurance time , so you 'll have to make do with it ! |
| 9 | Perhaps I 'll have to make do with killing his missus . |
| 10 | " We 'll have to make do with bread and marmalade this morning , James . |
| 11 | You 'll have to make do with me . ’ |
| 12 | You 'll have to make do with a cold shower or a dip in the lake , because I 'm not available , do you understand ? |
| 13 | I 've left you one of my shirts , so I 'm afraid you 'll have to make do with that tonight . |
| 14 | You 'll have to make do with bacon . ’ |
| 15 | Accepting that eventually two professors would be necessary , the meeting felt that in its then poor financial state the College might have to make do with one professor plus one subordinate teacher . |
| 16 | Erm can we can you as part of the discussion , can you start off by saying well thank you very much for the call that you gave me last week but erm erm there 's there 's just a couple of sizes I 'd like to talk talk to you about . |
| 17 | I 'd like to turn turn to the . |
| 18 | He did n't need to fulfil a specific commission and could have made do with what he already had , but he wanted something better . |
| 19 | Erm well I think you 'd have to make do with twenty four strong care assistants . |
| 20 | This may have helped draw on the Enemy 's hasty stroke , thinks Gandalf at III , 88 . |
| 21 | Sheikh , who was batting , stood crouched over his bat , patiently waiting for the moment when Mafouz would decide to let go of the ball . |
| 22 | This unexpected find would have helped pay for the dead work of the shaft sinking . |
| 23 | I 'd get a brand new keyboard and Dad would have to make do with an old car — one that was always going wrong and making him embarrassed in front of his friends . |
| 24 | But this one , this monster , would have to make do with a bottle . |
| 25 | In other words , if a Portuguese or indeed even a Polish business is the official employer of workers seconded for three months to a worksite in Germany , these workers would have to make do with the minimum wage provided for by Portuguese or Polish legislation . |
| 26 | Since it will be a long time before the reflective process turns into action plans , we shall have to make do with what we already know and for the purposes of this chapter we can relate it to Level Three Partnership . |
| 27 | Des will be cleared from quarantine on November 6 so until then , he will have to make do with a weekly Saturday visit from Dave and fellow home-based squadron mates Corporals Brian McCourt and Richard Starkey . |
| 28 | However , in practice insufficient weight is often given to this aspect of a recruitment policy , so that a firm committed to an internal promotion policy will have to make do with available talent for future promotions . |
| 29 | We will have to make do with post hoc evaluations . |
| 30 | So , at best , they will have to make do with tuning into the programme in stereo . |