Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] do [adv] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll invest the island ; it will be a harder struggle , but with the men drilled and ready , we shall overcome that rabble — some of their force are mere chits of girls , who would do better to wear petticoats than breeches ! ’ |
| 2 | So , if this way of looking at the world is what starts up that vital fire in your imagination , then you would do well to take Watson 's top and have as your hero someone imbued with plenty of ordinary commonsense . |
| 3 | ‘ But surely you would do better to confront Theda with this and demand the truth from her ? ’ |
| 4 | We would do well to take heed of the American experience . |
| 5 | We would do well to transpose Orwell 's transposition of Chesterton : the metabolism of the Western world is founded on the work of women more completely than we realise until we stop to think about it . |
| 6 | We have , just in this fact , an argument that if we had to choose one of the two strategies for the indefinite future we would do better to choose pragmatism , because it is so much more adaptive . |
| 7 | Nothing would do more to boost Daniele 's status than to be seen showing off on the Corso while his father 's life still hung in the balance . |
| 8 | You 're continuously working round and taking people off doing what they ought to do simply to move things around and you , you 've talked of that . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , as ministers ' eyes glaze over at the thousand ‘ what ifs ’ thrown up by war , they would do well to remember Lord Salisbury 's deflatingly modest dictum from more than a century ago : ‘ The first object of a treaty of peace should be to make a future war improbable . ’ |
| 10 | While they will do well to emulate Morocco , no side organised by Zagalo should be taken lightly . |
| 11 | And erm they are doing whatever they can do just to keep people aware of the need to maintain safety margins . |
| 12 | He had realised , for instance , when Martha was born , that he would do well to take flowers to the hospital , but not that if you buy an azalea in winter and carry it on a bus and through a number of cold streets , all the buds will drop off before you arrive . |