Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [modal v] do [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was aware I was staggering slightly , lurching sporadically into Jamie or the girl , but there was n't a great deal I could do about it ; I felt rather like one of those ancient dinosaurs so huge that they had a virtually separate brain to control their back legs . |
| 2 | ‘ Just in the work you can do for me . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And these must be fulfilled ’ ( a banker 's way of saying what we did for Brazil we can do for you ) . |
| 4 | Thanks James you can potter away now , thank you actually there 's a job you could do for me James , if you like to , find all the things and put them over here with the labels stuck to them , can you do that for me ? |
| 5 | He seemed to be saying , ‘ Listen Geoff , there are some things I can do for you and there are some things I ca n't . |
| 6 | ‘ The things I could do for him , ’ she sighed . |
| 7 | There are lots of things I could do for you , ma'am . |
| 8 | There are things I must do to you . ’ |
| 9 | Tell me when , when we when we s started our discussion of the planning the future document I did say that er there was one or two things you could do for me and er one of those of course was to ask you if you could , during the course of our discussion , if any names came to , to mind , anybody who you would find that you could er you could recommend me to or can refer to me to if in fact you found our discussions were of benefit |
| 10 | Clicking on an object with the right mouse button brings up a menu listing all the things you can do to it — a feature first seen in Borland 's Quattro Pro for Windows . |
| 11 | So we 've had a look at some of the numbers now have n't we and some of the things you can do with them . |
| 12 | There 's lots of things you can do with it . |
| 13 | There are certain things you can do about it . |
| 14 | I think it 's the diversity really , the number of things you can do in it [ that appeals ] . |
| 15 | He expresses favouritism , not love , from one daughter to the next by the things they will do for him , a characteristic not correct in any parent . |
| 16 | In his mind thinks of simply incredible things he would do to her , involving getting her on a couch and going into unrealistic positions without clothes , plus jerky movements . |
| 17 | You know nothing of my problems ! — Wait , one commission you could do for me ! ’ |
| 18 | On the other hand , if you really feel indebted , Miss Fox , there is a small favour you could do for me in return . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I know you 're tight , Woody , ’ Finlayson said , ‘ but the only thing you could do for us now would be to shoot the old man . |
| 20 | Yours will most probably be the arms she needs at this point , and the best thing you can do for her is to show that you share her grief , and that as far as possible you are going to be the rock on which she can lean while the sands of her life are shifting so frighteningly beneath her feet . |
| 21 | Furthermore , liking the bulbs for dividing is bound to disturb the roots of the roses , which is just about the worst thing you can do to them . |
| 22 | And there 's no ’ a thing you can do about it , lassie , so why do n't you sit back and enjoy it ? |
| 23 | See if you know that Mrs L and Mrs T can get away with talking about your colour and that knowing there 's not a thing you can do about it because they do n't believe you . |
| 24 | Naylor was calling her bluff , and there was not a thing she could do about it — the swine ! |
| 25 | She was up to her ears in love with Naylor Massingham , and there was n't a single solitary thing she could do about it . |
| 26 | I mean our motion you can do with it what you will but like I say we have actually aimed to actually get something which recognises all party support for the Children Act and recognises concern about the funding . |
| 27 | In other words , the guitar is going to sound the way it wants to sound , and there 's not a lot you can do about it . |
| 28 | But , you know , the situation is difficult in that if the people did move in there 's not a lot you can do about it because it would mean that you would have to surrender the lease , which means you 've let the guarantors off the hook for paying the then and you 're left without a tenant whatsoever . |
| 29 | Well if they say no it 's no that 's it , there 's not a lot you can do about it . |
| 30 | Not a lot you can do about it . . |