Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [conj] [modal v] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack Russells are difficult animals to teach to retrieve — I have only had one that would do it properly — but they can be taught to work nets , drive rabbits into nets and to be thoroughly disciplined in all they do . |
| 2 | All you can really do is construct something that will divert it or block its way for a while ; persuade it to do something it does n't really want to do . |
| 3 | Give me ten years and I 'll make something that can do it in twenty . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The Government is pinning its hopes for economic recovery on the housing market , so it would n't want to do anything that would snuff it out , ’ said Mike Simpson , Suffolk spokesman for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |
| 5 | Do nothing that may give it a bad name . |
| 6 | You 've got a bit of an infection bubbling away in there , but we 'll prescribe something that should clear it up fairly quickly . |
| 7 | ‘ None of us could find anything that would shift it however much elbow grease we used . |