Example sentences of "you [vb mod] do [be] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What you ought to do is teach these girls some manners , ’ the American muttered crossly . |
| 2 | The first thing you must do is to assign any system-wide logical names required by the process , eg. pseudo-devices used for the process or storage directories , and all the logicals for all the storage directories known to the process . |
| 3 | What you can do is make some exaggerated moves such as lying on the floor , climbing through each other 's arms or whatever . |
| 4 | The worst thing you can do is set these things and then cock it up because secretaries is people that pride themselves on being administratively perfect |
| 5 | and what you can do is to keep that one for best |
| 6 | What you can do is list all the people down here and then you might have a skills matrix you might also have a product knowledge matrix yeah ? |
| 7 | The Vietnamese have finally got control of their own country after forty years of war ; defeated the Japs , the French , us , and the most powerful nation in the history of the planet in succession , with bicycles , guns and guts , been bombed back into the bronze age in the process and all you can do is spout some tired nonsense about little yellow men infiltrating the steaming jungles of the Nullarbor Plain and turning the Aussies into Commies ; I think a Highland League side winning the European Cup is marginally more likely . ’ |