Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [be] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the first thing you must do is get a different message across . |
| 2 | Iris would actually and maybe what we should do is buy a diary |
| 3 | Or what I might do is make a couple of these up but fill them out a bit more . |
| 4 | What I 'll do is get a little light run down then you can see |
| 5 | What I 'd do is keep a handy sledge-hammer in the boot ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Tell you what though , mate , ’ and he was overtaken by another surge of enthusiasm , ‘ if you 're interested , what you could do is take a trip to Explorers Inn in the Tambopata Reserve , see the rainforest there … ’ |
| 7 | What I could do is play a record but er I ca n't remember so bear with me for a moment . |
| 8 | She counted to ten as she had been taught when about to deliver a big speech , but when she tried to force some words of outrage from between her teeth her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth and the most she could do was make a small cry of protest deep in her throat . |
| 9 | The best thing she could do was take a shower , get dressed and go out for some fresh air . |
| 10 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |
| 11 | if it is considered that the information content is of paramount importance then it is valid to so construct a resource centre that every student may spend most of his time wired up to a dial-access system so that all he need do is dial a number , press a button and then sit passively absorbing what he sees on a screen and hears in his headphones … |
| 12 | All you need do is have a lift-up lid instead of a solid base or shelves added under the actual seat part and you have immediately doubled the usefulness of the piece as well as gained some footage . |
| 13 | Erm , so , if you really want to erm , make sure there 's no deadwood , what you would do is do a range format reset of the range you want to erase first of all . |
| 14 | What you would do is copy a blank cell . |
| 15 | And what they would do is have a look and say ooh that 's , ooh that 's about your size , that 's about it . |
| 16 | What she would do was write a note of apology , giving her name and address and telephone number , and secure it behind one of the Bentley 's windscreen wipers . |
| 17 | So what I 'm hoping that this Council will do is send a message up to White Hall that this is an abuse of executive power to stifle the challenges of t to the authority . |
| 18 | All it will do is alienate a lot of women who are n't radical feminists , and open us up to ridicule from our enemies . |
| 19 | But what it can and will do is bring a literary perspective to sport , by encouraging gifted writers to go one-on-one against our most intriguing winners and losers . |
| 20 | ‘ What this guy will do is get a demoralized sales organisation revitalised , hopefully at the same time that the company 's Alpha technology begins to roll out in volume , ’ said John Jones , analyst at Salomon Brothers . |
| 21 | The least we can do is plant a few trees in return . |
| 22 | Informants can not , of course , be expected to quantify degrees of abnormality ; but what they can do is distinguish a fully normal sentence from one which is to some degree odd . |
| 23 | All the judges can do is award a greater proportion of non pension assets to the wife to make up for her lack of long term security and if these other assets are small , the husband is still the winner . |
| 24 | All they can do is give a ‘ true and fair view ’ . |
| 25 | At the very most , Brooks argues , all that the practice of paraphrase can do is offer a crudely approximative outline of the poetic content of a text . |
| 26 | All you can do is draw a line through it — in effect , turn it into a blank page . |
| 27 | All that , all I can do is pick a file out of my come under One Two Three , but if you do that in Lotus you have to do the one two three first . |
| 28 | ‘ All they can do is recommend a test . |
| 29 | What he can do is instill a sense of purpose and energy that 's been missing for years . |