Example sentences of "[modal v] do [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I must do just a few more menial things before I go to bed ’ or , more oddly , ‘ I was nearly run over on my menial way this morning . ’ |
| 2 | I 'll do just a few observations on the match . |
| 3 | He 'll do so a little wiser to the neurosis his new career can induce . |
| 4 | When we 're away though next week , I think they 'll do quite a lot of stuff inside and But they 're doing some for The same team are doing some friends of ours on Main Road and of course most of the people are down there . |
| 5 | That 'll do only a few . |
| 6 | We could do nearly a quarter on a night . |
| 7 | I mean you 've got quite a lot of movement in there and , and you could do quite a bit for him . |
| 8 | She felt certain then that he must be thinking that if she was any sort of a journalist that she could do quite a write-up out of the considerable time she had just spent walking in his sole company . |
| 9 | Properly targeted , together with training incentives , the Chancellor could do quite a lot at not a huge cost . |
| 10 | Well I do n't think it would give a burnt taste but I think , I think it probably could do quite a lot of good for it . |
| 11 | in exchange and they used to do quite a trade in , cos a lot of them were quite skilled at making toys . |
| 12 | Well , as you know , when I was a novice I used to do quite a lot of teaching , because the nuns were short-handed , and it was useful practice . |
| 13 | This year , I am being told that the test was not whether we could deliver our unprecedented number of detailed commitments , as I had thought , but whether we would do a lot more than we said we would do just a year ago . |
| 14 | The rest , certainly many fewer than now , will do only a limited business . |
| 15 | I will do so a little later . ’ |
| 16 | Yeah , so I will do quite a lot of erm , stuff erm I should say in geography , sort of work in geography for that things . |
| 17 | Oh they can do quite a lot of it . |
| 18 | And I think they can do quite a bit on that . |
| 19 | ’ Locally , they can do quite a lot of damage . |
| 20 | I think it 's , it really begins in the home , this , because mothers can do quite a lot in not educating their own sons to think of them as servants . |
| 21 | I think — it really begins in the home this because it 's — mothers can do quite a lot in not educating their own sons to think of them as servants . |