Example sentences of "to do [indef pn] [conj] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Too busy to do something that might benefit your mother ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Plan to do something that will take you out of the house and , perhaps , go for a long walk . |
| 4 | ‘ This will be an opportunity for them to come into their own but without having to do anything that might upset their families . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Why would I want to do anything that would lessen my chances of making money ? ’ |