Example sentences of "thing we [modal v] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Think of all the people we shall meet , and the places we 'll go to , and the things we shall do ! we 've had some good times at Pinehurst , I know , but think of being free ! ’ |
| 2 | What we had was basically method things where we were given lots of experimental things we would do in the laboratory , but no real philosophy behind it , no sod of follow through . |
| 3 | Please pray that you 'll be with each one of us and that we 'll enjoy today with grandma and all the different things we 'll do . |
| 4 | What we 're talking about , w what we intend to talk about in July is not just whether or not our policies are the right ones but the practicality of implementation , which is actually the hardest bit of all to grasp , and what sort of things we might do , whether it 's about spending more money , whether it 's about influencing people , whether it 's about physically restraining people on where they should go . |
| 5 | for I was always keeping up my sleeve for sort of things we might do as opposed to R and M U have done |
| 6 | One of the most useful things we can do is to find out from people what they would really like to happen and try to facilitate this . |
| 7 | However if this is what the old person wants , one of the most helpful things we can do is to back up their wish for this to happen . |
| 8 | In particular , while some things we can do give us great satisfaction , other tasks leave us cold . |
| 9 | When we find this extremely difficult , there are a few things we can do to make it easier . |
| 10 | I said , to test him , ‘ There 's lots of things we can do . |
| 11 | As Brumfit observes , ‘ Being a good teacher is never exactly the same thing as understanding teaching ; there are many things we can do well that we can not fully understand . ’ |
| 12 | The actions which have to be taken are by definition inward ones — things we can do ourselves . |
| 13 | Bobbie ( RH ) : It was better working with pupils from another school 'cos everyone 's good at different things so the more people in the project , the more things we can do . |
| 14 | You have seen some of the things we can do with our power . |
| 15 | There are two things we can do with hair on the upper lip , we can either bleach it so that it does n't notice , or we can actually remove it with wax , or we can have electrolysis . |
| 16 | This figure contains all the separate information-processing components which seem to be needed to explain how we do all the things we can do with verbal stimuli , plus arrows indicating pathways of communication between these components . |
| 17 | Well there are one or two other things we can do to try and make you feel better er even if the , the hands are n't the principle cause er I think we 'll see what happens , work your chest out of the way first though . |
| 18 | that I 'm w now , so what I suggest we do , is before we say we must make your premenstrual tension better with various manip various bits and bobs , and there are quite a few things we can do to help . |
| 19 | And there are special things we can do with functions , and we need to make sure they 're functions before we do them . |
| 20 | ‘ There are a lot of other things we can do to stop ourselves thinking about her ! |
| 21 | I am not permitted to have intercourse for three weeks after surgery , but there are other things we can do and we do them . |
| 22 | The Secretary of State said that he wants to discourage ’ children and young people , particularly young women , from taking up smoking ’ and that it is ’ one of the most important things we can do to protect their future health . ’ |
| 23 | There are a number of things we can do to try to prevent these problems : |
| 24 | There 's two things we can do . |
| 25 | Er , and , and it , one , one of the things which I hope that we can agree upon is that the is , is that one of the things we can do by organising our time better is get an extra sales call in a day . |
| 26 | There are also a lot more things we can do to make this treatment more tolerable . |
| 27 | There are also a lot more things we can do to make this treatment more tolerable . |
| 28 | But another thing to be shown how to do it and that 's what , really what we want to try and do for the rest of the talk is to not just keep preaching at you and telling you what to do , but to show you how , so that 's the purpose of the talk from now on , now in this outline there are , I 've got about fourteen different points here and it 'll highlight ways in which we can er stay awake , what I 'm going to do is to read straight through them and then we 'll go back and pick a couple out , because it 's impossible to concentrate on the entire er amount , so we 'll do that , it 's er a number of things we can do to keep virtually awake keep up with the food at the proper time from Jehovah 's organizations that 's studying and things like that is n't it ? |
| 29 | And said that 's one of the things we can do . |
| 30 | It 's to do with the Government housing policy at national level , but there are certain things we can do , and I remember about two and a half years ago I arranged for a group of people to come and give a seminar to the Housing Committee . |