Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] do [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you truly believe , and if you 're inspired by a band — and you have to be inspired by something — then I think you should just do your homework , and just realise that life existed before Van Halen … ’ |
| 2 | I 'll just do your desk top and whatnot and if you can ask Jess to clean the floor , alright ? |
| 3 | Yeah I 'd rather do it Monday . |
| 4 | What we 'd effectively do which code , what effectively do of course is we we trundle down here checking to see if any of these are set to one and if they are set to one we set a weight in memory . |
| 5 | I think we could all do what Andrew 's suggesting quite easily er I could do it for Geography , erm , I just think it 's making a lot of extra work . |
| 6 | Yet the Commission could only do what member states allowed it to do , and it lost real power to other institutions which protected national interests . |
| 7 | Its importance within the city lay not in the speed of its rise — which was hardly spectacular — nor in its violence — for it could only do what Berlin sanctioned , but rather in the social and national spirit it fostered within the community . |
| 8 | I could still do my job , but my heart was n't in the day-to-day scramble for the latest pictures . |
| 9 | I could n't go out without him because we 'd agreed we 'd both do our share . |
| 10 | And , as I grew more frustrated at not getting the screenplays into production , and I saw Q bring his book out , I thought I could maybe do what Selvon did , but in our time . |
| 11 | And everybody there at that table knew that in the case of Shirley Harper 's mother , the phrase ‘ she does n't get out much ’ conveyed the distilled essence of a withdrawal so extreme that the term agoraphobia would hardly do it justice . |
| 12 | If a manager had indifferent or poor leadership qualities his subordinates would still do their job , but they would do it ineffectually or perhaps in a confused manner . |
| 13 | Had he grown to think she would meekly do his bidding ? |
| 14 | Alex Lightbody , the reigning Irish champion , will also do his cause a power of good if he does well at the British Isles Championship in Worthing . |
| 15 | Would he not join me in urging Sinn Fein to reconsider their position on this and would he also agree with me and confirm to this house that this government will never do what Mr Adams requests and that is become a persuader of the people of Northern Ireland to join a united Ireland and will he , will he recognise from me that many on these benches remain committed to the union of Northern Ireland and Great Britain . |
| 16 | What about people 's worries that medicine may actually do them harm ? |
| 17 | The police say they can only do their job if that information 's kept secret . |
| 18 | Individuals can only do their jobs well in this context if they know a great deal about everyone else 's jobs and problems . |
| 19 | Individuals can only do their jobs well in this context if they know a great deal about everyone else 's jobs and problems . |
| 20 | Now we need to talk a little bit about what happens when the veins or the arteries or the capillaries for that matter , the veins , the arteries or the capillaries have a leak in them , they become broken , now you already know that the circulatory system is a closed system and that the blood can only do its job if it 's being transported within that system , once the blood comes outside of that system then it 's lost the circulation and it can not perform its proper function any more , in other words the body 's losing its blood , okay , what condition do we call it when the circulatory system stops working properly ? |
| 21 | All that BS lacks is an ability to respond directly to stimuli of certain sorts : V knows no more than BS , he can simply do something BS can not . |
| 22 | They can then do their spot and leave , with the family and friends organizing the rest of the party . |
| 23 | But in terms of induction training , to make sure someone can actually do their job , |
| 24 | That 's basically for editing purposes , so that , if the editor , he likes the general tenor of what you 've said but he perhaps wants to , he wants to chop a little bit out or he wants to put that sentence up there , he 's got somewhere that he can actually , he can actually do his editing . |
| 25 | Right now I think my number one priority is to prove that I can actually do my job , ’ Lindsey said tautly . |