Example sentences of "[vb infin] with [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " What we could do with is a bit of success , " said a member of the tenants ' association on a big Coventry estate . |
| 2 | You can do without carpet but you 've got to have somewhere to sit and the least you can make do with is one sofa or two good chairs . |
| 3 | I think probably , what we could do with is a some criteria as to what what complaints are going to go to the complaint examiner if we 've only got one of them . |
| 4 | What you could really do with is leaving |
| 5 | What we could really do with is an Easter egg with an egg cup with it . |
| 6 | What you could do with is labelling these so that , which one of them is the first question , sort of pie chart A if you like then pie chart , pie chart A and again if you 've got the total on , on your pie chart then you , you wo n't get confused will you ? |
| 7 | It 's a shame , what yo , I think you could really do with is somebody sort of part-time who is kind of flexible on , on when they 're part-time so they could fit in with the with the sort of fluctuation |
| 8 | Perhaps gangs of older women up hills is quite the norm in the Fatherland , and if so it could do with being aped here . |
| 9 | She could do with being able to sew for her own sake . |
| 10 | The sort of mix Techno jocks could do with being a lot more open-minded towards . |
| 11 | However , while some reports are well drafted , others could do with being both more complete and more pointed in terms of their recommendations . |
| 12 | I just liked the sound of being a musician but , for a while , I had to make do with being a fireman . |
| 13 | There 's not much we can do with being in or out the building or is there ? |
| 14 | The software installation routine , though it installs a basic system very easily , could do with being beefed up a little in order to make configuring the network simpler for the first-timer . |
| 15 | Look erm could do with being , having a doorway across back of here could n't they ? |
| 16 | It could do with being that long for my airing cupboard . |
| 17 | She could do with being taken down to the tennis courts probably and have a knock up . |
| 18 | The only channel I could really work with was the Clean ; Crunch and Lead developed a very hard , transistorised quality which , had I not already known differently , would have convinced me that this was a totally solid state preamp . |
| 19 | Actually the last time I was stood up on a platform and did this was in front of erm a S G T congress in Dieppe and I tell you I had to do it in French , and it was much more difficult so I 'm hoping this one will go smoothly , but I , what I 'd really like to do is begin with is offer you erm delegates and platform both , a very very warm welcome from the trade union movement in Portsmouth . |
| 20 | Much as I admire the French , nothing can compare with being back home in good old Blighty . |
| 21 | ‘ I can cope with football but one thing I ca n't cope with is treachery , and that 's what I had at Swindon . ’ |
| 22 | Using these in different combinations the number of phrases you could cope with is almost limitless . |
| 23 | I can recall a class of eight-to nine-year-olds in Brisbane in which one or two could not cope with being in a submissive role of being hijacked . |
| 24 | Can not cope with being criticized , seems depressed |
| 25 | How , though does she cope with being coached for stardom by her mother , who oversees the girls ' development at Bisham ? |
| 26 | But still he could n't cope with being only ordinary . |
| 27 | Yeah , I worked with a voluntary group for a while and I remember helping one lady go through , she was raped , and go through the courts , and all her past life was brought up , I mean I was so upset for her and yet the fact that he had actually raped twice before was n't brought up , but her past life was brought up and the man actually got off in the end because she just could not cope with being on the stand and dealing with it all and it was just so terrible that , that , that the , the ina , |
| 28 | They er well I think constitutionally it 's very difficult and this is why there is now in a similar sense as why I suggested it to you as a subject , because not only it was er a very emotional story of a glamorous young woman saying I ca n't cope with being treated by the media and other people , I 'm going to retreat but what made it so historic and therefore the treatment of it 's so interesting , was that it presented such an extraordinary constitutional position |
| 29 | You want snuggling , I got snuggling , she fumed , knowing for sure that she was n't the clinging type but , with some devil on her back , this way seeming to be the only way she could cope with being ‘ engaged ’ . |
| 30 | The only bit they could cope with was designing a trendy logo . |