Example sentences of "[is] [pron] [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's nothing we can do for her now and it 's House Full tonight . |
| 2 | We 're agreed , I think , that , ghastly though it is , there 's nothing we can do for that poor girl at the moment , and that Rita can go on for her . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've had numerous prison governors say to me , Yes , Conlon , we know you 're innocent , but there 's nothing we can do about it . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's nothing we can do . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's nothing we can do but hang on here and wait for morning , ’ Lawler said to his wife , helping her onto her feet . |
| 6 | There 's nothing we can do about that ; it 's how magazines work . |
| 7 | ‘ If the elusive Mr Cupplewaite 's solicitors wo n't play ball , there 's nothing we can do to make them . ’ |
| 8 | Once someone makes the connection , there 's nothing we can do . ’ |
| 9 | I informed the police and their answer was , ‘ There 's nothing we can do ’ . |
| 10 | There 's nothing we can do here . |
| 11 | There 's nothing we can do except be brave and patient . |
| 12 | So there 's nothing we can do about it . |
| 13 | And there 's nothing we can do to make them . |
| 14 | ‘ There 's nothing we can do except sit tight , is there ? ’ |
| 15 | Once the flies have laid their eggs on a body , there 's nothing we can do , so we get that seen to as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 16 | We 're stuck in this place for the time being , and it appears there 's nothing we can do about that . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's nothing we can do , Sir John , ’ he called across to Dacourt . |
| 18 | ‘ Tell her there 's nothing we can do . ’ |
| 19 | I mean there 's nothing we can do , any of us . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's nothing we can do Gina , just calm down . ’ |
| 21 | Thus in the case of ( 38 ) it might be " terrible things always happen in war , that 's its nature and it 's no good lamenting that particular disaster " ; in the case of ( 39 ) it might be " calm down , there 's no point in worrying about whether he 's going to come because there 's nothing we can do about it " ; and in the case of ( 40 ) it might be " it 's no concern of ours ' . |
| 22 | There 's nothing we can do about that . |
| 23 | However , there 's nothing we can do about that . |
| 24 | There 's nothing we can do ourselves then , it 's got to be done by |
| 25 | ‘ There 's nothing we can do , ’ he told her tonelessly , never taking his eyes from that small shape . |
| 26 | and there 's nothing we can do about that . |
| 27 | He 's sort of saying , he 's justifying it in , in a very Marxist way , he said this is our duty , what we 're doing is , is , is natural , it 's a process of , of his history you know that there 's nothing we can do avoid this and we should in fact be pleased to see th th this actually taking place , it 's er it 's not a question at all of , of the parents going , peasants going too far , it 's not er a reign of terror at all , erm in fact more than that it , it 's a sort of erm it , it 's not even retribution i it 's a , it 's a course of history . |
| 28 | Apart from that , there 's nothing we can tell you to make you safe . ’ |
| 29 | Everything they said meant , ‘ There 's nothing we can say . ’ |
| 30 | Yes , so there 's nothing we can say we 're not we do n't want want to make them feel awkward about it I mean they have planned what they can plan . |