Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [modal v] do [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Master Taplow , ’ he whispered , ‘ there is very little I can do for you except make sure the gaoler gives you your wine , pray for your speedy death and that in Purgatory Christ will have mercy on your soul . ’ |
| 2 | However , there seems to be very little I can do with it . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , there is little I can do about it . |
| 4 | ‘ Yeah , I worry about it , but there 's nothing much I can do about it . |
| 5 | but no I mean I i mean I 've lost a lot of good friends on it , and I would love to see them back alive but , there 's nothing much I can do about it . |
| 6 | Oh , I knew he was drinking , drinking heavily at that , but there was n't much I could do about it . |
| 7 | This time there was no mistaking the command , but , short of trying out one of the manoeuvres she had been learning in a regular martial arts class , there was n't much she could do about it . |
| 8 | When these things hit you there 's not much you can do about them . ’ |
| 9 | It can be very upsetting to have good shots spoiled in this way ; once the noise is on the tape there 's not much you can do about it except dub it out with a substitute background sound ( see page 80 ) . |
| 10 | But some children are just shy by nature and there 's not much you can do about it . |
| 11 | ‘ There is not much you can do about it . |
| 12 | I do n't know what you can do about it though because if people are that thick , there 's nothing much you can do about it is there ? |
| 13 | Unfortunately there 's nothing much we can do about it . ’ |
| 14 | There was nothing very much we could do about it . |
| 15 | Should n't tell you this , but when you 're retired there 's nothing much they can do to you , is there ? |
| 16 | The other powers did n't like it — they wanted Britain to get out of Egypt — but so long as the fiction could be maintained that the British were there at the express request of the Egyptian sovereign , there was not much they could do about it . |
| 17 | Even if you have problems , there is very little you can do about them in the middle of the night . |
| 18 | My attitude to ageing is that it 's inevitable so there 's very little you can do about it . |
| 19 | She also had a strong suspicion that , despite his kisses , Silas was thoroughly annoyed with her , and , while it made her feel depressed , she felt there was little she could do about it . |
| 20 | She bit her lip over the length , but there was little she could do about it . |
| 21 | Should you find out there is probably little you could do about it anyway . |
| 22 | The sad thing is that there 's probably little we can do about it now . |
| 23 | ‘ In a recent match , we were kicked off the park by the opposition but there 's very little we can do about it . |
| 24 | She really needs a strong man by her side ; I hate to think what marrying a weak one would do to her — and to him . |
| 25 | Several local PPLs , who have to go to him , have complained about this exorbitantly high fee , but it seems that there is little we can do about it . |
| 26 | That one will do for me . |
| 27 | All I would do with it just to fancy it up you know to buy some of that pink sheering stuff |
| 28 | With my father I had more difficulty : all I could do with him was to argue about literature , citing my teachers ' opinions as being more up-to-date and therefore more valid than his own . |
| 29 | I can still see him sitting there at his desk , me standing in front , yelling at me how lucky I was , how I 'd been given everything , was this all I could do with it . |
| 30 | I 've come on your wild-goose chase and that 's all I can do for you . ’ |