Example sentences of "do [Wh det] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | to get the job done which we can not recover . |
| 2 | She was so good , yet there were so many things she did n't do which I would have thought she would have . |
| 3 | You have spent most of your day sitting in your office while I , from seven o'clock this morning until ten tonight , have been at the beck and call of two old women ; I have seen to the needs of my child , and in between times I have cooked the meals and done whatever I could towards keeping this mausoleum clean . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We have done what we can , ’ he commented . |
| 5 | And the Borough Council as agents for the County Council has done what they can to offset problems and the scope for further measures is limited . |
| 6 | The scene of crime team had done what they could , which was n't much . |
| 7 | Well we only had Epping hospital dear , that 's all we had , there was only Epping and er they were er you know done what they could very good and we had a dentist , oh dentist you had to go er , oh right to Old Harlow , up er |
| 8 | The embalmers had done what they could but , even as they walked up the nave , both Cranston and Athelstan caught the whiff of putrefaction . |
| 9 | She had done what nobody could have expected her to do . |
| 10 | She had done what she could . |
| 11 | She went on to say that although she 'd done what she could from her Oxford home , and encouraged her friends to do the same , eventually she just had to pack and go to Orkney . |
| 12 | By the time Kádár resigned in 1988 , he had come to be thought of as a kind of benign pragmatist , who had done what he could in difficult circumstances . |
| 13 | He had come to his sister Elizabeth 's rescue in her time of trouble , contributing almost beyond the call of duty ; he had already done what he could to help his young nephew Robert — now what of Benjamin ? |
| 14 | Mary 's marriage to Henry had certainly taken place by February 1381 , and Thomas might well have done what he could to prevent her marrying , but Froissart casts Thomas as a villain in his account of English politics in Richard II 's reign , and not every detail in the story should necessarily be accepted at face value . |
| 15 | Joe held out his hand , they shook hands and walked away from each other , Joe feeling that he had done what he could to save Maureen from wrecking her life and suffering years of pain but troubled by sympathy and liking for Chris . |
| 16 | Feeling that he had done what he could , Redpath walked back to the steps . |
| 17 | He would not swear that the Prince of Wales had enjoyed every minute , but at least he , Auguste Didier , had done what he could . |
| 18 | There comes a moment when you know you have done what you could do with something and everything else would be fiddling . |
| 19 | " Well , doctor , you 've done what you could , and you 've helped a lot by coming along . |
| 20 | You 've done what you can ; let's quit . ’ |
| 21 | and yet she was always treated as one of the , the family , but it 's silly because you 've done what you can when they 're living . |
| 22 | Had she been asked that minute what her exact feelings were , she might have said , I have done what I can for Andrée , if she 's going to blow cold again , if she does n't want to see me any more , vogue la galère , I shall have to survive , I shall . |
| 23 | Well , I had done what I could to protect the new catapult and , while I was sorry that what had happened at the Rabbit Grounds had cost me a trusted weapon with many battle honours to its name ( not to mention a significant sum out of the Defence budget ) , I thought that maybe what had happened had been for the best . |
| 24 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 25 | Speaking to BBC radio , Lawrence Eagleburger said the US had done what it could for an agreement on farm subsidies , which had derailed the talks . |
| 26 | He also warned : ‘ I prefer it not to be carried because the Conservatives , who are desperately clinging at straws because of the popularity of our policy , against the irrelevance of theirs , would do what they could to make mischief about it . ’ |
| 27 | Since paraprofessional social welfare personnel are an important resource for meeting people 's needs , one would assume that policy makers , social service administrators and professional social workers would view them in this light and would do what they could to support and develop this valuable resource . |
| 28 | As well as the letters that poured in , the other guests on the programme had all said privately that they would do what they could to help ; Ian Hislop , the editor of Private Eye , had already printed a Friends of John McCarthy ad for free , and Gerald Scarfe had agreed to design a programme cover for the upcoming Benefit . |
| 29 | If the challenge comes , though , they will usually do what they can , however inadequate and apprehensive they feel . |
| 30 | I 'm doing what I can and I think everybody should do what they can do . ’ |