Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] do with [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish I knew what I should do with her . |
| 2 | I went through cookbooks to see what I might do with it . |
| 3 | He says an which he says you 've worked so hard , cos I worked for two casters which I should n't have done really , but that 's how I were used to working you see and er , he said er , I said well me dad keeps asking me to go and work for him , and he said well I 'll tell you what I 'll do with you , he says you 've worked so hard for us , this bloke came from Bloxford you know He says you 've worked so hard for us , he said we 'll agree to you going with your father , er for a month and see whether you like it , and if you do n't like it , come back and we 'll give you your job back . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I could do with you on my permanent staff — but I think that these articles will hit home , cause a stir , such a stir as Henry Mayhew created some time ago when he , too , wrote of the cabined and confined lives of the capital 's poor . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , ‘ now I could do with it . ’ |
| 7 | I felt a lot of anger , but there was nothing I could do with it ; then it faded , until I started making some connections with feminism at the beginning of the seventies . |
| 8 | I could do with it . " |
| 9 | I could do with it going over . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I wondered what she was doing , if she was all right , what I 'd do with her when I got home … |
| 12 | I do n't know what I 'd do with them . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Course I will — what d' you think I 'd do with them , flush them down the loo ? ’ |
| 14 | I know what I would do with him , ’ Violet said , yet , too , Tom must be a lusty brute and delightfully wicked . |
| 15 | All I would do with it just to fancy it up you know to buy some of that pink sheering stuff |
| 16 | I 'll see what I can do with it . |
| 17 | However , there seems to be very little I can do with it . |
| 18 | ‘ I think perhaps you 've forgotten something — This is my land ; I can do with it as I please . |
| 19 | and this is the difficulty , I 'll , I 'll take this away and see what I can do with it , I mean there 's that East End thing , you know , that arts erm you know |
| 20 | I do n't know what I can do with it . |
| 21 | How does she think she 'll do with her A levels ? |
| 22 | Walter Legge liked to tell the story — I think as an example of both your musicianship and your tactical skills — that at the graduation class in Vienna you chose the Overture to Rossini 's Guillaume Tell and then sent everyone away except the cellos so you could show exactly what you could do with them in the opening bars of the piece . |
| 23 | Adam loved words , was fascinated by them , their meanings and what you could do with them , with anagrams and palindromes and rhetorical terms and etymology . |
| 24 | These contained a substance called Spread , and , indeed , that was all you could do with it . |
| 25 | So what you could do with it . |
| 26 | ‘ God knows you could do with it ! ’ |
| 27 | Well when you could do with it most |
| 28 | No , I would say I want the same school , you can do with me what you like , Paul I suggest you do n't throw that away before I loose my temper with you . |
| 29 | I took the advice I always give my students — try every new tool ‘ every-which-way ’ to find out what you can do with them . |
| 30 | So we 've had a look at some of the numbers now have n't we and some of the things you can do with them . |