Example sentences of "[verb] do [indef pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added : ‘ He vehemently opposes active regional policies , he has wound up a lot of the government 's aid to the North and during his term as Industry Secretary he has done nothing to create new technology and skills or back new firms and enterprise in Hartlepool . ’ |
| 2 | The veteran foreign minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , has done nothing to allay this idea , bluntly denying the debt his country owes to the west by declaring , ‘ There is not a capitalist Germany and a communist Germany , there is only one German nation ’ . |
| 3 | As the Prime Minister has done nothing to change that policy in his first year , is not Majorism simply Thatcherism without the courage of her convictions ? |
| 4 | There is no denying that the present government has done something to influence both sides of this equation . |
| 5 | I do not want to do anything to jeopardise that process . |
| 6 | Mr Tondut of Roo Management expressed outrage at the difficulties conservationists caused him and was quoted in the national press as saying , ‘ I do n't want to do anything to damage these houses . |
| 7 | Many also feel responsible because they assume that they must have done something to bring this man down . |
| 8 | May we try to do something to make other people 's lives happier and easier — even those people who seem to be doing nothing at all to help us . |
| 9 | That is the second point : that the British criminal justice system is failing to do anything to stop these crimes . |
| 10 | Nicholas I had put some order into 200 years of imperial legislation by publishing the Complete Collection and Digest of the Laws , but he had done nothing to alter judicial procedure . |
| 11 | Handsome , talented , and wealthy he might be , but he was also rude and abrasive , and she had done nothing to deserve such treatment . |
| 12 | I had to do something to start this cow 's insides functioning because I did not like the look of her today . |
| 13 | But I felt I had to do something to keep some sanity in racing . |
| 14 | I I said does anybody like lumpy custard . |
| 15 | Cutbacks in the budget have done nothing to curb chronic overstaffing : any official above teaboy needs a full supporting cast . |