Example sentences of "[vb mod] do [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | though this must do for the time being . |
| 2 | damage it must do over the country |
| 3 | At the beginning of Lent , Miss White approached me to see what she should do about the appeal |
| 4 | to see what she should do about the Lenten appeal |
| 5 | He had kissed her on the nose , and they had strolled around their small domain , debating what else they should do to the garden . |
| 6 | The rest of the sack matched up to the quality of manufacture and finish of the back system — as it should do at the price . |
| 7 | She stared bleakly at the damask cloth she had traced her fingers over as if it might hold the answer to what she should do with the rest of her life after tonight . |
| 8 | The sailor 's personal log might not only record what has happened on the journey so far , it might also speculate about what the crew should do with the merman they 've caught in their nets ; it might contain thoughts about food and the way it is stored on board ship ; it might suggest new ways of storing food . |
| 9 | For years he and his father before him had endured advice from well-meaning lunatics as to what he should do with the place — concreting the stones , or letting archaeologists burrow under them with their excavations , or digging a defensive moat round it — and Sir Edmund Antrobus , Bart , had had enough . |
| 10 | What does the right hon. and learned Gentleman suggest that those apprentices should do with the training to which they committed a lot of their time ? |
| 11 | The mark of the adjudicator is simply that he is called upon to decide what parties in dispute should have done or should do in the circumstances of a particular case . |
| 12 | Access Opinions Ltd. asked a number of Labour Members for their views on taxation and what the Chancellor should do in the Budget . |
| 13 | by the divisional court and er it was a case where the divisional court er had to er consider what it should do in the interim , the Lord Justice er in the divisional court judgement deals with the interim position at er page twenty five of the transcript , starting at letter F and er going through to er page twenty eight paragraph B and I think it might help my Lord if you could read that passage in the justice latest judgment . |
| 14 | Transposons can also be thought of as parasites , although as yet we know little of the harm , or good , they may do to the host cell . |
| 15 | The Pre-Raphaelites may do for the Victorians . |
| 16 | You may do in the dark what the day doth forbid ; |
| 17 | which is enough to do four little little pictures I thought I might do for the craft thing in September , erm you know our flower festival and erm in which case I 'd have had to purchase a few of your little thingies that 's pretty . |
| 18 | He had shown what a little flair might do for the army as a whole . |
| 19 | There was no doubt that he was the first of an avalanche of Swedish players who might do to the golf circuits of the world what they were already doing to the tennis circuit . |
| 20 | It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price . |
| 21 | FOREIGN exchange dealers who were imagining what John Smith as Chancellor might do to the value of the pound if Labour wins the election , were yesterday ambushed instead by one Antonio Cavaco Silva , prime minister of Portugal . |
| 22 | I felt very nervous about what she might do during the ceremony ! |
| 23 | Sex education in schools may therefore have most impact if it aims to discourage helpless attitudes , by emphasising to young people that they are in control of their own lives , encouraging them to see themselves as active rather than passive , and in discussing what they might do in the event of an unwanted pregnancy . |
| 24 | I felt she had n't been thinking about Charlie at all — except as an inspiration — but that , like me , she 'd been dwelling on what she might do in the world . |
| 25 | The Purchaser should at least accept that certain warranties should be given subject to the Vendor 's knowledge — eg those warranties which seek to anticipate what a third party might do in the future . |
| 26 | The initial reason must have been Protestant fears of what Henri II , using his daughter-in-law , might do after the treaty of Chateau-Cambrèsis ; the public Protestant call to arms and the private and tentative contact with England were part of the same desperate reaction to a situation which left the Protestants no more time to move slowly , and forced them into overt action against the regent — the representative of legitimate authority — and , perhaps , a covert move against her daughter — the legitimate authority . |
| 27 | ‘ It 'll do for the man it is for . |
| 28 | I joining the company something like that and if they did when you do join a department that does it you have a great sense of belonging , because some of the things you 'll do for the training will be allocated to other members round a team , yeah , all this sort of stuff and it becomes very easy , takes a monkey off your back as it were , you do n't have to worry . |
| 29 | This 'll do for the numbers . |
| 30 | That 's what they 'll do with the Radio News Network . |