Example sentences of "do [indef pn] [conj] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do n't you do something that will get you somewhere , Karim ? ’ |
| 2 | She must never ever do anything that might make them fight . |
| 3 | I 'm a pretty perceptive person , I understand people quite well , but I never dreamt that my mother could do anything that would damage my daughter so greatly . |
| 4 | Editor , — Allyson M Pollock and Azeem Majeed 's arguments in response to our editorial on consultant episodes could perhaps be summarised as ‘ the internal market is intrinsically flawed and we should not do anything that would delay its demise . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I still think you 're totally wrong , but I 'd never do anything that could endanger you — or the club . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Too busy to do something that might benefit your mother ? ’ |
| 7 | She looked wistfully up the companionway to the square of blue sky , but fought the urge to go up on deck , scared he might ask her to do something that would reveal her ignorance . |
| 8 | Plan to do something that will take you out of the house and , perhaps , go for a long walk . |
| 9 | ‘ This will be an opportunity for them to come into their own but without having to do anything that might upset their families . ’ |
| 10 | It was dangerous , too , to appear too over-confident , or to do anything that might provoke him into making his unofficial fatwa slightly more public than it was already . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Why would I want to do anything that would lessen my chances of making money ? ’ |
| 13 | Is not that the most open admission yet that , despite the honeyed words of the Secretary of State for Scotland , he has done nothing , is doing nothing and will do nothing to intervene in any way to help to save the Ravenscraig plant ? |
| 14 | Make the best of a bad job and busy yourself doing something that 'll keep you out of the firing line . |
| 15 | As subject , Edmund acts for himself , doing anything that will advance him : Goneril and Regan live by the same principle . |
| 16 | Do nothing that may give it a bad name . |
| 17 | And if you thought you had a fight last year over bi-annual congresses , you wait until you try and do anything that will affect our structure in the future . |