Example sentences of "[indef pn] you [vb mod] do [verb] " in BNC.

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1 This organ works at its own rate and there 's almost nothing you can do to speed it up .
2 This was a critical group , among whom the most commonly heard comment was ‘ There 's nothing you can do to stop it ’ .
3 There is nothing you can do to change what has gone before and you will only cause yourself misery in the present if you concentrate on the gloomier aspects of the past .
4 And there 's nothing you can do to change that . ’
5 These occur in the second half of pregnancy , and there is nothing you can do to prevent them .
6 It 's no good standing there , there 's nothing you can do to help . ’
7 If , on the other hand , your cat is one of the deaf ones , then there is nothing you can do to help it .
8 But there is nothing you can do to make it grow longer than it is programmed to do by your body chemistry .
9 I 've never felt hostility like that before , there was violence everywhere , I could smell it like something crawling out of the ground , it was like having second sight , the sense that something terrible was going to happen and there was nothing you could do to stop it .
10 Consider if you are fit and healthy enough to endure this or is there something you could do to improve the situation .
11 After a while Owen said : ‘ There 's something you could do to help . ’
12 Having said all that , there is usually something you can do to redeem a place .
13 Even whilst a person is waiting to go to hospital there may be something you can do to help .
14 I think it is important to stress to readers that sometimes there is something you can do to help fish in distress .
15 ‘ You once said if there was anything you could do to help me I had only to come to you and ask .
16 ‘ Thank you for trying , ’ I said slowly , ‘ but I do n't really see that there 's anything you can do to help .
17 ‘ I mean , is there anything you can do to help us rescue Gurder ? ’
18 ‘ Is n't there anything you can do to help , sir ?
19 I came to warn you what had happened in case there was anything you … anything you can do to help yourself .
20 So is there anything you can do to feel safer ?
21 Anything you can do to gain the advantage in combat is worthwhile .
22 So anything you can do to keep your home out of the official statistics really could be a matter of life or death .
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