Example sentences of "you [modal v] do [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You may do the article , ’ he condescended , watching her intently and surprising her yet again . |
| 2 | You must do a Currie . ’ |
| 3 | The practical answer is " do n't calculate the inductance , measure it " , but if for some reason you must do the calculation , the best approach may be to abandon the definition of eqn ( 4.33 ) in favour of the equivalent energetic definition ( see Section 4.12 ) |
| 4 | The lecturer is a mine of illumination , and of the philosophy and criticism of his subject , but you must do the digging . |
| 5 | You must do the needles one at a time — no short cuts ! |
| 6 | In fact all the things you should do every week but do n't always find time for . |
| 7 | You should do a bit of practise . |
| 8 | I think you should do a survey , approach them with a clipper board as they come in and say |
| 9 | " I know what you should do , " said Clelia , " you should do a Diploma of Education or whatever it 's called . |
| 10 | I think you should do the floor |
| 11 | I have always maintained you should do the things in life that are most difficult . |
| 12 | At some point , you will probably have to write out your own version of other people 's ideas in the form of paraphrase or summary embedded in your own work ; so it could be argued that you should do the rewriting from the outset , as you take your notes , in an effort to get at the ideas behind the words rather than just repeating the words themselves . |
| 13 | The essential thing is that you should do the homework as thoroughly as you can . ’ |
| 14 | For example , you might do a survey on potato crisps . |
| 15 | Well it makes you feel that you might do a bit of work with something |
| 16 | And because of your naval connections , we thought you might do the interviewing . ’ |
| 17 | The only trouble is that I ca n't help feeling that you might do the job better . |
| 18 | But what I 'm saying is the more you do of first ones the more you 'll do a second ones . |
| 19 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 20 | So you 'll do the handicrafts , I mean if , if , whoever is . |
| 21 | ‘ And you 'll do the washing-up ? ’ |
| 22 | You 'll do the presentation of the award . |
| 23 | Indeed , you 'd do the girl more kindness to put her in your dairy , for she 'll be utterly spoiled for any useful purpose . |
| 24 | S you could do you could do a hexagon this way actually draw a hexagon . |
| 25 | yeah , yeah I think so , you could do a directory of it first |
| 26 | You could do a bit of landscape planting , azaleas and rhododendrons and that , camellias maybe — you know , like your National Trust sort of place . ’ |
| 27 | Well I mean you could do a bit of both , I do n't see why you ca n't sort of start out with some general stuff about whether |
| 28 | Elizabeth , do you think on behalf of the forms committee you could do a tour around accounts and dig out the forms . |
| 29 | Erm y y you know you , you could do a diagram and presumably the person to speak to would be Billy or maybe Peter cos I think Peter did the bulk of the work . |
| 30 | But you could do a parent and toddlers could you ? |