Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [modal v] do a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't see how you could do a show , go to an analyst , work on a film and take ‘ poppers ’ or ‘ coke ’ or anything like it the whole time . ’ |
| 2 | and wondering how we can do a job for two thousand four hundred and fifty , when according to the experts in the field it was gon na cost fourteen and a half thousand pounds . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ This is a time when I can do a lot for my ranking . |
| 4 | ‘ It was partly the Welshness of it all which appealed to her — the wool is grown , spun , woven and made up here in Wales , but it was also her feeling that in the commercial life everything was grab , grab , grab and here was a little corner of the world where she could do a bit of good . ’ |
| 5 | Elizabeth Stewart , post-graduate chemistry student , recalls that Sir Robert Robinson under whom she was to work was away working for a government department and his students rarely saw him : ‘ We never knew when he would do a lab round , and often it would be at the lunch hour , when I was out ’ . |