Example sentences of "all you [modal v] do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's all you can do though Peter . |
| 2 | You have a rest , I mean that 's all you can do really is n't it ? |
| 3 | You 've got ta say no , very severely several times is n't it sort of just push him away so tell that that 's all you can do really . |
| 4 | Well I mean what all you can do really is anonymously is phone up |
| 5 | I said All you can do basically is go to a solicitor , get a court order , unless I can persuade the lady herself to let you have the furniture . |
| 6 | ‘ All you can do now , ’ she said , ‘ is knock both of mine out of the way . ’ |
| 7 | But since it did , since it changed your life and the lives of at least four other people , all you can do now is go on paying forever — one way or another — for the consequences . |
| 8 | that 's not all you can do now is blame the Labour Party , it 's incredible now . |
| 9 | All you could do deep down was to pray it would n't be you for the chop . |