Example sentences of "[vb mod] do [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's something we must do before the next meeting so that I can answer the questions , cos we do n't really know at this moment . |
| 2 | When Madame Denis asked him why he went to such lengths , he answered , ‘ Esther , one should do like the good God ; from time to time one should go and live among His own . ’ |
| 3 | This is what Crane Holdings should do within a few months . |
| 4 | For he does not allow that there can be someone who genuinely asks himself what he should do in a moral way , but whose answer is in terms of what is only one of various logically coherent moralities . |
| 5 | I do think , however , that there are still prevalent many gross misconceptions of what universities do and what they should do in the modern age : and it may be that some of these misconceptions still drift about the corridors of the Department . |
| 6 | He looked like a fresh-faced schoolboy and introduced himself to Charlie as one might do to a casual acquaintance at a cocktail party . |
| 7 | Maxwell-Fyfe replied that virulent anti-Americanism was confined to a small minority , but he made the most of the opportunity to spell out the extent of British alarm over what the Americans were doing or might do in the Far East . |
| 8 | I have n't really asked you very many questions so I 'll , I 'll ask you a question which sets us up for a programme we might do in the next series , having discussed the wedding , next the honeymoon ! |
| 9 | But I might do in the next fifty years any of them . |
| 10 | The things you 'll do for a cheap holiday ! |
| 11 | After staring at the two chaps with ‘ you 'll do for a light snack ’ eyes , the lion started to wander towards them . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've taken another envelope : it 'll do for the next batch of typescript . ’ |
| 13 | Just to show you how this has developed , you do n't need to copy this down , it 's something that you 'll do in the second year of your course , but we mentioned in particular here how you interact with people and what goes through your head . |
| 14 | ‘ I can tell you what I 'd do on the last day of my life , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ I sometimes wonder what you 'd do without the stupid machine . |
| 16 | Or then you 'd do like the four , four , four flares |
| 17 | When they had been in the chemist 's buying shampoo , Mr Kennedy had asked what he could do for the two young ladies and they had been pleased . |
| 18 | The great Labour party — which brought together militants , because it thought that they knew what they could do for the working people of this country — is scornfully setting democracy aside . |
| 19 | As Fielding led me back to our table I made a powerfully worded verbal pass at a salacious waitress , who appeared to be all for it but then came down with some deep sorrow in the kitchen , and when I burst through the double-doors to console her two men in sweat-grey T-shirts assured me there was nothing I could do for the poor child . |
| 20 | Sadly there was no mention of what it could do to a 13-year-old child . |
| 21 | He puts himself in good light by adding that he gripped me tightly round the shoulders in reassurance , that he gave me brandy , that we talked long after the starlings had ceased their chatter , that we walked down into the street and discussed in jogging stride what guilt or shame or desire could do to the human soul . |
| 22 | I could do with a hot drink or summat — I 'm froze . |
| 23 | You look as if you could do with a hot drink , and as a matter of fact , so could 1 . |
| 24 | We advertised , in fact , for people who wanted to smoking but could do with a little help , because I really do think that women do need a little help , a bit of support to do this . |
| 25 | He looks as though he could do with a decent meal , ’ Markby observed . |
| 26 | ‘ I could do with a good laugh . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We hate to detain our most welcome guests , especially when they have … ’ he looked Anna May up and down as if his mind could do with a good Chinese laundering ‘ … other urgent business to attend to . ’ |
| 28 | Well , I could do with a good box and that might put me in with a chance . |
| 29 | Could do with a good faith if it 's not one it 's in the last |
| 30 | Yeah I could do with a good laugh , go on . |