Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [vb mod] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in settling what these questions shall be , statesmen have now especially a great responsibility if they raise questions which will excite the lower orders of mankind ; if they raise questions on which the interest of those orders is not identical with , or is antagonistic to , the whole interest of the State , they will have done the greatest harm they can do . |
| 2 | Works of art or literature might be obscene ( ie depraving or corrupting ) but their great significance might outweigh the harm they could do , and take them out of the prima facie criminal category established by s1 of the Act . |
| 3 | As you 've said before , you know I 'm a privatisation man , er , and I think that comes down to number three , if we privatised the lot and pushed them further out , if they felt there was a need to do building maintenance they could do it . |
| 4 | With almost all the farms having stock on them for 365 days , and with wives restricted in the heavy work they could do , most men had quite a bit to do when they returned from work . |
| 5 | Fifteen of the disabled professional were restricted in the type of work they could do . |
| 6 | Apparently , I mean I 've read this , but I do n't know how there was actual references to it as well but apparently what they used to do run a test they used to do was they used to get people very very angry take some blood from them , put put them inside of rats and it would kill the rats . |
| 7 | Asked how much of their weekly shopping they would do on a Sunday if all shops were open , they answered , on average , 12% . |
| 8 | Arnold Whitchurch , the chairman of the Board of Governors there , thought that ‘ if the hospitals worked with the County Council they might do a tremendous lot for the co-ordination of the general health system . |
| 9 | And I suspect that if we offered them counselling from cater good catering advice on how to maximise their market return they 'll do it because I would n't hang about for a meal if I knew that they would n't give you a meal in fifteen minutes , I 'd go and eat somewhere else . |
| 10 | I 've a sneaking suspicion they 'll do well . |
| 11 | I 've a sneaking suspicion they 'll do well . |
| 12 | If these people wanted to d if these people wanted to c and they really cared about conservation and education they 'd do what the care for the wild have done . |
| 13 | Anglers and shooters may now wish for a lower profile and conflict with canoeists and ramblers respectively will bring publicity they could do without . |
| 14 | As Norton Taylor points out , ‘ administrations have always attempted to present their policies in the best possible light ; to avoid public relations pitfalls ; to coordinate information policy ; and to counter bad news they can do little about … ’ . |
| 15 | Each plays the role they can do best . |
| 16 | and after say three o'clock in the afternoon they 'd do activities , work connected with |
| 17 | No I think , I reckon that if you knew that the bloke was an easy pull , they would n't do it if they , if they knew they could n't get the girl cos otherwise it would be embarrassing for them , but if they knew that she was an easy pull they 'd do it for a joke . |
| 18 | Joey Beauchmap and Nick Cusack got the United goals … this was one of their best games of the season away lets hope they can do it at home … |
| 19 | And when they go out on a football field they can do something about it . |
| 20 | The paper 's political editor , Trevor Kavanagh , has been suggesting at Westminster that John Smith is the kind of man they can do business with . |
| 21 | They say that if they create Regional Government they will do so at the expense of National Government and not Local Government , but that is n't true because Mister has already said that erm strategic services such as passenger transport will b will be handed over to regions and if that goes obviously fire , police and strategic planning will be lost to us . |
| 22 | I 've thought about next thing they 'll do is holograms next . |
| 23 | They came with a good suit on and they would go to work with a suit double breasted and then and they would work there and make a lot of money and when the next thing they would do they would hit into town and get all rigged out and then that was them from top to bottom from their hat right to their feet and then they were hitting the road then . |
| 24 | That 's another thing they used to do in those days they never do now , a lot of men when they bought a pair of boots , they had them what they called plumped . |
| 25 | But it 's just the sort of thing they 'd do . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ That 's just the sort of thing they 'd do . ’ |
| 27 | The first thing they 'd do if they captured one would be to hack off the two forefingers of each hand , the very ones our archers used to pull a long bow . |
| 28 | The problem is that they are harder to measure and therefore justify , and that 's why hard-nosed finance people refuse to spend on environment and try to cut back training when it 's the last thing they should do . |
| 29 | The positive heuristic , that aspect of a research programme that indicates to scientists the kind of thing they should do rather than what they should not do , is somewhat vaguer and more difficult to characterize specifically than the negative heuristic . |
| 30 | ‘ He has a super , laid-back attitude — if anyone kicks him , it 's the worst thing they can do . |