Example sentences of "is [pron] you [modal v] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , sir , I fear there is nothing you can do except what is done already , which is to keep Mrs Browning calm and quiet and endeavour to feed her nourishing food to give her back some strength . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If , on the other hand , your cat is one of the deaf ones , then there is nothing you can do to help it . |
| 4 | But there is nothing you can do to make it grow longer than it is programmed to do by your body chemistry . |
| 5 | Small cracks can be stop drilled ( with a hand drill ) but there is nothing you can do with ‘ checking ’ except replacement . |
| 6 | Incidentally if you misunderstand the motion and vote the wrong way there is nothing you can do about it later to correct the mistake — you have to live with it ! |
| 7 | It did n't bother you then , and now there is nothing you can do , unless you want to broadcast to the world how your own judgement was sadly impaired . |
| 8 | ‘ There is nothing you can do , ’ I answered . |
| 9 | These occur in the second half of pregnancy , and there is nothing you can do to prevent them . |
| 10 | There is nothing you can do . |
| 11 | ‘ But it is a fact of life in Northern Ireland and there is nothing you can do about it , ’ said one man . |
| 12 | Definitely not , there 's nothing you can do , no there is nothing you can do , and the restrictions on the |
| 13 | When you learn that love is something you must do without , that close attachments to other human beings is a sign of weakness and that expressions of emotion are deeply shameful , how will you ever manage the openness , honesty and compromise that a close relationship demands ? |
| 14 | ‘ There is something you can do , ’ she said . |
| 15 | Yet there is something you can do , and the earlier you start the more chance you have of being successful . |
| 16 | The message of our experts is that there IS something you can do about the unsightly , and sometimes painful , form of fat known as cellulite . |
| 17 | Now , do n't despair , there is something you can do . |
| 18 | I think it is important to stress to readers that sometimes there is something you can do to help fish in distress . |
| 19 | As yet HGW does not offer all the facilities of its DOS counterpart — for example you can not include Speaker 's Notes with each slide which is something you can do in Harvard Graphics 3.0 for DOS . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , ’ she said at last with only a faint betraying tremor in her voice , ‘ if you really are dead set on staying to help , there is something you could do . ’ |
| 21 | If you feel this is something you could do , please contact Joan immediately . |
| 22 | This is what you 'll do . |
| 23 | Part of me was hugging them because this is what you should do and part of me was thinking : ‘ It 's over . |
| 24 | This is what you can do : if he comes too close and narrows the gap , step to the side and extend it again ; a gentle touch to his arm is more emphatic than asking him to stop . |
| 25 | But there are not a few readers for such procedurals and you may feel that writing one of them is what you can do best . |
| 26 | Now this is what you can do if you want to . |
| 27 | ‘ Then this is what you will do . |
| 28 | ‘ This is what you will do . |
| 29 | This is what you must do : freeze your emotions by concentrating on putting your opponent on to the computer screen of your mind . |
| 30 | He tried to wriggle out of his responsibilities however , but his boss said : " If you want to keep your job , this is what you must do . " |