Example sentences of "[verb] do [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The broad guiding principle , attested by many authorities , is that one looks to see what the taxpayer has done to earn the profit in question . |
| 2 | Thus Lord Bridge 's guiding principle could properly be expanded to read ‘ one looks to see what the taxpayer has done to earn the profit in question and where he has done it . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ There 's a lot of potential here and since coming I can see how much Frank has done to turn the playing side round . |
| 4 | THERE is never a good time to kiss £100,000 goodbye — but with Christmas round the corner , Colin McRae must be wondering what he has done to upset St Stephen . |
| 5 | I would like to thank Miss Freda Scott , Voluntary Services Organiser , for all the work she has done to promote my books , and I look forward to resuming concerts at Ruchill Hospital and elsewhere . |
| 6 | I put him on notice that we shall ask him what he has done to provide extra resources to the prison service . |
| 7 | This is enhanced when after all she has done to help her husband become king , she has to ask to see him . |
| 8 | Johnny Rogan himself is at a loss to explain what he has done to provoke the wrath of the former Smith , while Morrissey says that the book contains certain inaccuracies about his Mancunian past . |
| 9 | Richard Amos is still the youth worker and deserves special mention for all he has done to get the youth club back on its feet . |
| 10 | Richard Amos is still the youth worker and deserves special mention for all he has done to get the youth club back on its feet . |
| 11 | Yet Mr Kohl seems more interested in getting votes from right-wingers than in winning them for Turks : the most he has done to change the citizenship law is to wonder aloud whether Germany 's Turks might be granted dual citizenship for a trial five years , at the end of which they could choose to be either Turks or Germans . |
| 12 | Every one of you has made a contribution to the character of this institution and I take pleasure in acknowledging what each of you has done to make this such a satisfying academic and social environment . |
| 13 | And the work that France has done to escape from the tyranny of oil has already begun to pay handsomely . |
| 14 | And what exactly to you propose to do to stop me ? ’ |
| 15 | There 's nothing difficult about a whole stream of , of er comments were raised by the inspector Mr team are , have addressed a large number of them , have told us what they propose to do to deal with a number of er and , and I believe that there will be things left over when he 's finished that , that he wo n't be able to resolve er perhaps er without the people that help the Committee er or some of us are always suggesting is that er those things that he is unsuccessful in resolving erm be identified and so that er when , when the er the Inspector makes his er his next report we can see just , just why that some of these other items there have were n't able to be addressed . |
| 16 | I am sure you will agree that it is in the best interests of the traditions of our society that there should be these circumspect checks and controls on what a public authority is permitted to do to interfere in the private lives of individuals , but at the same time it does make it difficult to act promptly and , in certain cases , and this must be one of them , one can only regret the outcome . ’ |
| 17 | So what would we need to do to make that disappear ? |
| 18 | ‘ I mean , what else do we need to do to make the thing totally immobile , ’ he said stonily . |
| 19 | Interviews are a chore he has to do to sell the show . |
| 20 | The Inland Revenue ca n't take it off you , ’ says Lord Teviot , who is also quite open about the fact that all a Lord has to do to qualify for his expenses is to walk into the chamber , have his name logged by a doorkeeper and walk out . |
| 21 | All she has to do to get to work is walk out of her kitchen to her office just across the hall . |
| 22 | It seems IBM believes all it has to do to get its way is to come up with the right marketing plan . |
| 23 | He does n't know what he has to do to win a regular first team place . ’ |
| 24 | In order to understand what a president has to do to master that maze we must first briefly consider some relevant features of the American political culture . |
| 25 | In addition , he and Generals Muñoz Grandes and Martínez Campos asked Franco what he proposed to do to control the Falange . |
| 26 | All IBM Corp needs to do to return to profit is get rid of excess staff and keep exploiting customers that are n't in the know by selling mainframes and related software at exorbitantly high margins . |
| 27 | Thus , the partners should decide what each needs to do to improve the relationship and then attempt to make these changes , without the behaviour of one being entirely contingent on whether or not the other partner does what was agreed . |
| 28 | Careful and accurate description of the problems is necessary before deciding what help is appropriate and what the patient needs to do to overcome his difficulties . |
| 29 | It is not particularly difficult to get rose cuttings to sprout roots , and to suggest that that is all one needs to do to raise new plants of any and all roses is to mislead by disregarding why all the trouble is taken to propagate H.T.s , Floribundas and many more by budding and , less often , by grafting . |
| 30 | The 1992 UN conference on the environment could be the right place for an analytical look at what the world needs to do to ensure that it can feed its vulnerable populations in the next country . |