Example sentences of "you [vb mod] do with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kind of thing you ought to do with with mum is like , you could probably go down one Sunday and have a , have a , you know , have a lunch . |
| 2 | Now I know what you should do with all that free time you have : acting . |
| 3 | But I believe that what you should do with trying to come to estimates of housing provision , is to put together the best technical assumptions that you can , to then sit down and take a long hard look at the figures based on the erm the policies of the County Council as approved by the Secretary of State in previous structure plan approvals , the current government policy . |
| 4 | That is the first thing you should do with any burn , put people in a cold bath , anything to keep the burns cold because otherwise they can keep burning in for something like five hours . |
| 5 | ‘ Eldorado was pulled forward and rushed and I think that 's the last thing you should do with a soap . |
| 6 | But if the tyre had not been expanded enough , we 'd have to have levers and gently lever and hammer it on , something in the same way as you 'd do with a bicycle tyre . |
| 7 | There comes a moment when you know you have done what you could do with something and everything else would be fiddling . |
| 8 | You look as though you could do with one . |
| 9 | ‘ You could do with one yourself , Sara , ’ commented Rodney . |
| 10 | You could do with more nights like that ’ ( FN 30/8/87 , p. 1 ) . |
| 11 | Though you look as though you could do with something to perk you up . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You could do with some building up . ’ |
| 14 | Your determination to ‘ get it right ’ will impress far more than a false sense of confidence or a reluctance to admit you could do with assistance . |
| 15 | ‘ For a start you could do with a new burglar alarm ’ |
| 16 | You know what you could do with ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I bet you could do with a cup of tea ? |
| 19 | ‘ You look as if you could do with a cup . ’ |
| 20 | You look as if you could do with a hot drink , and as a matter of fact , so could 1 . |
| 21 | When time and energy are spread too thinly , even those things that you could do with ease when you were ‘ on good form ’ become more troublesome . |
| 22 | Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ? |
| 23 | But think what you could do with an imminent ! |
| 24 | You could do with a lot a lot more . |
| 25 | She shut her bedroom door , knowing fate had decreed that the book she was reading should be resting in the sitting-room , leaving her with nothing to do but make her bed , sit on it , lie on it , unmake it , jump on it , push it round the floor — there were limits to what you could do with a bed , and it was the only piece of furniture in the room . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd say you could do with a touch more garlic in that , by the way — Pauline always used to go quite heavy on the garlic . |
| 27 | If you 're not happy with what you see in the mirror , maybe you could do with changing your eating habits or getting more exercise . |
| 28 | And he added , as he led the way , ‘ You both look as though you could do with some sleep , so while you are refreshing yourselves I will telephone to a hotel in Cajamarca where I know the owner will look after you very well . ’ |
| 29 | And it looks like you could do with more . |
| 30 | These contained a substance called Spread , and , indeed , that was all you could do with it . |