Example sentences of "[noun prp] that [pron] [vb mod] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | As so often with British policy , it is the right thing , but not enough of it — although Nigel Lawson promised in Washington that we would do more . |
| 2 | ‘ We are pioneers and we have to prove to the NHS that we can do the job , ’ says Middlesborough-born Mr Stringer , who now lives in Saltburn . |
| 3 | I said to Ruth that we should do the same . |
| 4 | ‘ I have promised Mrs Girdlestone that I will do something , ’ I said . |
| 5 | He had been asked to rewrite the words of The Rock , but he suggested to Ronald Duncan that he should do the job for him : " Watching the time he took to write even his signature , " Duncan noted , " it occurred to me that it must be a painful process for him to compose anything " . |
| 6 | Sheriff Higgings told Arthur that he could do nothing other than give him a custodial sentence . |
| 7 | I have made it perfectly clear to the ferry owners in Rathlin that we shall do nothing without discussing it with them and the islanders ' development and community association . |
| 8 | But it , is n't it an awful situation when you , when you , when you look at it that evidence indicates that the erm the number of people that are either now elderly infirm or sick and and clearly that they all will have to face this , this , this terrible burden and I can not understand because there is , this , there is , there is er a total disarray within the Conservative party , that all their er er back bench er MP s are making representations to their erm their leader who possibly may not be a leader tomorrow but as long as he 's the leader today , John Major that he should do a rethink and here they are er you know , members of the same party , continuing to support something which is so idiosyncratic that you know it 's really beyond belief , er Chairman . |
| 9 | The dealers hinted to Sandra that she might do a massive deal with Sir Willie . |
| 10 | Siward was probably already one of the richest men in Scandinavian York , as well as a useful war-leader and a forthright advisor to Canute and his heirs by the time it occurred to the Lady Emma that she might do worse than encourage him to take over Northumbria . |