Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] do some [adj] " in BNC.

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1	You may need to do some lateral thinking , as savings can not always be related to the size of the cheques you write out each month .
2	If he is not used to the concept you may need to do some initial explaining , but , once he understands your expectation , he may turn out far better than he imagined !
3	Someone must have done some extensive informing , because MacLane picked Susan and me out of the crowd without even the pretence of looking around for the usual suspects .
4	They must have done some good ( Cipolla points out that their principles were the same as those of the great 19th-century sanitary reformers such as Sir Edwin Chadwick ) , and yet there seems to be no way of telling from the surviving evidence whether lives were saved as a result .
5	So if your PC is already jam-packed with boards , you might need to do some creative rearrangement .
6	If you want to do all the things on your list you 'll have to do some alone . ’
7	I wished that I was less inhibited by my upbringing and could have done some extraordinary thing to confirm her diagnosis — danced on the table or stated that I would n't ally myself with a man with a face like a toothpaste advertisement .
8	But his reservations outweigh his praise : ‘ They may have done some good in creating interest in two people who 've made major innovations in twentieth-century music , but they 've also given a negative impression : that the people involved in this music have serious flaws in their personalities .
9	Indeed , it would have done some good to have one when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer , as it would have made a significant difference to some of the measures that he took , which stoked the fires of inflation .
10	You only need the handset , so if complete telephone instruments have been bought , you will need to do some minor dismantling to disconnect the handset wires from the terminals inside .

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