Example sentences of "what [pron] [modal v] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lastly , many scientists believe that an MD is a waste of time while a PhD is what everyone should do ; most of these people are out of touch with the real world . |
| 2 | I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners . |
| 3 | It 's the logical thing to do , now ; it 's what I ought to do . |
| 4 | ‘ I am not doing what I ought to do , ’ he kept saying to himself . |
| 5 | I am not doing what I ought to do . |
| 6 | ‘ Who knows what I might do one day ! ’ |
| 7 | But I like learning new things and seeing new places , so one day who knows what I might do ! ’ |
| 8 | Small children have strong ideas about what mothers do or do not do ; my own adolescent children are very worried about what I might do in public to embarrass them . |
| 9 | What I might do is steal credit cards and use them . |
| 10 | I went through cookbooks to see what I might do with it . |
| 11 | I told myself it was because you disgusted me , but really I was afraid of what I might do and say . |
| 12 | Erm , I never had any idea as to what I might do when I left school , in fact erm , apart from basket making and er one or two manual skills of that sort erm , there was n't much available . |
| 13 | And yet I risked everything I had worked towards , all the hope of what I might do in a position of real power , for something that was obviously doomed to failure from the start . |
| 14 | You did n't know what I might do and , in the same situation , I 'd have been fearful . ’ |
| 15 | Or what I might do is make a couple of these up but fill them out a bit more . |
| 16 | I tell you what I might do tomorrow . |
| 17 | Well what I might do is just put one soap in each cos it |
| 18 | What I might do is go back to Marks . |
| 19 | we can always ask to put them away for a week yeah that 's what I might do |
| 20 | But I think possibly what I might do is try and make this grape vine one the first one where we actually do do it properly . |
| 21 | I tell you what I 'll do . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't know what I 'll do eventually , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ I ca n't say what I 'll do until I find out what it all means , ’ one official said . |
| 24 | Blimey , he said , if that bloke asks where the action is one more time I really do n't know what I 'll do . |
| 25 | I 'll tell you what I 'll do , I 'll just pop down the corridor and borrow some from Mrs. Goodwin in number four . |
| 26 | ‘ If he tells me once more that his parents met at midnight on Hallowe'en and live in a riverside pub which is his and his brother 's — I do n't know what I 'll do ! ’ thought Jane . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't know what I 'll do , ’ he said recognizing the gleam in my eye . |
| 28 | That 's what I 'll do , I 'll ring Cal . |
| 29 | I do n't know what I 'll do without 'im . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Here 's what I 'll do , ’ Kinane said eventually . |