Example sentences of "[modal v] do [prep] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , you must do as you please . ’ |
| 2 | However little I care for the way you live , I shall concede that as long as you get your facts right , sense flavours and textures with accuracy and discrimination , think out the implications of your choices , are not deceived about your desires and ambitions , you may do as you please . |
| 3 | He might do for me very well . |
| 4 | I do n't know what they 'll do to you either . |
| 5 | ‘ They 'll do for me right enough then . ’ |
| 6 | What I 'll do for you deliberately er if the situation changes between now and a fortnight 's time after you 've sp spoken to your accountant , I 'll probably look at twenty , thirty and forty just to give you an illustration of what the expectations er are by , by putting a sum in there . |
| 7 | There was nothing he could do for her now or in the future . |
| 8 | There was nothing we could do for him here , so we had him transferred . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I know you 're tight , Woody , ’ Finlayson said , ‘ but the only thing you could do for us now would be to shoot the old man . |
| 10 | And er it was , it was acceptable by our members in general , that we were achieving the aims and objective of the basis of the whole incentive scheme you know , notwithstanding a lot of other things that was accompanied by , because we could we could then say to the management on most occasions , well we could do with something here that would help health and safety . |
| 11 | I could do with one now I think . |
| 12 | Not much Swindon could do about it either . |
| 13 | Should you find out there is probably little you could do about it anyway . |
| 14 | But there was nothing she could do about it then and it was too late . |
| 15 | But there was obviously nothing she could do about it now , she decided , and the holiday in Rome would no doubt put him out of her mind . |
| 16 | There was nothing she could do about it now , except try and force him out of her mind and heart . |
| 17 | This no doubt guaranteed their trustworthiness to their new comrades and may well have persuaded them that if communism was for their brothers then it would do for them too . |
| 18 | All I would do with it just to fancy it up you know to buy some of that pink sheering stuff |
| 19 | We got our heads right round it , whereas before , like , half the time we was n't even bothered what was recorded or how it was done , it was always bang , get a groove , put it down and see what we can do with it later . ’ |
| 20 | we can do with it then . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's nothing we can do for her now and it 's House Full tonight . |
| 22 | ‘ Is there anything more I can do for you today ? ’ he said presently . |
| 23 | I do n't know what you can do about it though because if people are that thick , there 's nothing much you can do about it is there ? |
| 24 | The sad thing is that there 's probably little we can do about it now . |
| 25 | if they do well there 's not a lot we can do about it really . |
| 26 | We 've done without you all these months , we can do without you still . ’ |