Example sentences of "[conj] you [vb mod] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , someone seeing you may do the same thing using a crude ‘ dead man ’ to hold the fuselage upright . |
| 2 | [ There was discrimination ] not directly , but in subtle ways , like when you 're choosing your options , no matter what you 're doing there 's always a group where you can do cookery or needlework , but if you 're doing physics you have to put that down , and that means that you ca n't do something else that you might want to do , like history or something ; you 've got to make a positive choice to do science whereas it 's quite easy to drift into doing history and things like that . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'll learn the pleasures of anticipation , my lady , where you can do no damage . |
| 4 | While Ian was at work we did trips to Shantytown ( a reconstructed gold-mining town ) , and Woods Creek , where you can do a walk through old mining tunnels and realise the incredible harshness of the miner 's life , digging drainage systems through solid rock . |
| 5 | You can ‘ be alive ’ as opposed to ‘ being dead ’ ; or you can do your best to live life to the full — putting in and getting out as much as possible . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , Harri , you can either sit back and let him do the digging or you can do a little investigation yourself . ’ |
| 7 | Or you can do absolutely nothing but lie in the sun in the garden and tan . |
| 8 | You can generate the dust by rubbing the Polychromos Pastels against fine sandpaper , a practical use for small remnant pieces that would otherwise be difficult to use up , or you can do as I do and spread the dust from very lightly applied pastel strokes , placed to allow a very deliberate development of the effect over a localised area . |
| 9 | Do it as that or you can do it after three months , yes I mean |
| 10 | ‘ You can shoot the tiger before it tears the goat 's throat out , or you can do it afterwards . ’ |
| 11 | Say there we are you can add twelve add twelve or you can do two times |
| 12 | Or you can do control and C and it 'll finish it off . |
| 13 | Or you can do a vaguely experimental sort of thing . |
| 14 | Or you can do it tonight . |
| 15 | Or you can do it next week . |
| 16 | This bank might be set to one as well or zero and then you sum those together which is that summation there , or you can do a product there 's a product there . |
| 17 | Or you can do all these round here . |
| 18 | and they do it electrically or you can do it manually and he 's turned them round manually and now the water 's coming out normal put them back to how they were |
| 19 | You can put , do brown and put colours on the top or you can do him any colour and then put any colour on top . |
| 20 | You can either do it per pound or you can do a total amount in the end |
| 21 | Or you can do what I have just said , which is , say ‘ I , I 've made a mistake there , I think I 'll do it again , what I want to say is this . ’ |
| 22 | Or you could do what my elderly neighbour does : every time she feels like decorating she pays a neighbour 's student son to come in and do it for her . |
| 23 | You could do in advance or you could do retrospectively or |
| 24 | Or you could do two sixes . |
| 25 | Okay sixty add sixty or you could do |
| 26 | Or you could do , you could take them away separately . |
| 27 | Or you could do an Arnold Schwarzenegger , just go break the lock ! |
| 28 | Or you could do a legalized dope poster campaign . |
| 29 | This is traditionally done in early spring , although you can do it any time between autumn and late spring . |
| 30 | There is no need at all to write down all your food and drink each day , although you can do this occasionally if you find it motivates you . |