Example sentences of "do [adv] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I shall do now is try to back up this last statement by sketching some of the characteristics of childish thought , showing how they can be explained in constructivist terms . |
| 2 | All we can do now is help ourselves . ’ |
| 3 | What I can do now is treat the damage and give you something to soothe the burning . |
| 4 | But since it did , since it changed your life and the lives of at least four other people , all you can do now is go on paying forever — one way or another — for the consequences . |
| 5 | All I can do now is go to games and watch Glasgow Rangers from the Copeland Road stand . ’ |
| 6 | All you can really do now is salvage what you can . |
| 7 | Well the one thing she ca n't do now is breed from her . |
| 8 | I wish I 'd never taken Maurin 's money , but all I can do now is keep quiet and wait for it to end . ’ |
| 9 | But if I were a free agent , I think what I 'd do now is keep Rainbow hammering away at this lost cause just long enough to put the wind up those damned smug ben Issachars . |
| 10 | All I can do now is praise the NME for finally showing him to be the xenophobic shit that he really is . |
| 11 | Johnson revealed : ‘ It was a great result for Cambridge and I hope it helped my position , but all I can do now is wait and see . |
| 12 | All she , and the couples three children can do now is wait . |
| 13 | The only thing she could do now was find Ana and mend a few fences . |
| 14 | All Otis could do now was wait to see how much compensation he would be given . |
| 15 | All he could do now was keep steady despite his growing anger . |
| 16 | ‘ If you really want to help me out , Kokos , the best thing you can do today is lie low and keep your mouth shut . ’ |
| 17 | What Brundle does do well is enthuse , but then I suppose that 's his car salesman training back home . |
| 18 | The only thing I could do well was cook . |
| 19 | What you can do instead is park the call very like the switchboard , park the call at the desired handset , so take my extension , 4444 , I receive a call for Hilary , 4524 , I do n't know how , it just happens , or perhaps it was , you know , an easy mistake . |
| 20 | What the court must do therefore is take into account all the relevant factors and consider how they affect or are likely to affect the child . |