Example sentences of "[art] [noun] do [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I may take one more minute just to convey this when I was a child in South Africa and we demonstrated and the police would come you know , ready to fire ready to kill if necessary and you had to calculate how you can avoid that situation and then you try in your normal life after the demonstration to do something against the regime to organize people and so on , and then like a juggernaut the state comes and destroys all the work that you and others have done for years and you just see it as a child of what your parents and others had done . |
| 2 | The dinner , Maxim decided , would be best remembered as ‘ nourishing ’ , and he went back to the ante-room to do something about the taste of it . |
| 3 | This is because the crime of indecent assault requires the defendant to do something to the victim . |
| 4 | Was n't this demonstrated when the scum did us in the semi 's a couple of years ago ? |
| 5 | Why on earth eighteen months ago did the district auditor issue a letter saying that unless the council did something about the situation of numbers and of finance within its elderly persons homes then it would come in and it would require the council to take action . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is too much to hope that this concert finally dragged the Petersfield Musical Festival into the 20th century , but with a promised appearance by the acclaimed National Youth Jazz Orchestra next year , as well as The Dream of Gerontius , it remains only for the committee to do something about the slow start to the week for the festival to regain some of its former splendour . |
| 7 | Almost all the murders that the police solve in real life are either dealt with in a matter of hours ( the husband done it with the kitchen knife ) or as a result of long , long , tedious inquiries , mostly house-to-house , the taking of fingerprints and the elimination of perhaps thousands of marginal suspects . |
| 8 | In a nasty , but highly entertaining tirade , one of the more perceptive remarks was that if it was n't for The Wedding Present , Ukrainian music would be confined solely to Blue Peter specials ; surely one of the main reasons the band did it in the first place . |
| 9 | The Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke had referred to the need to do something about the really persistent , nasty little juvenile offenders . |
| 10 | The eel does it with the aid of electricity . |
| 11 | The man in the booth did something to the turnstile , then we all pushed in . |
| 12 | You ca n't really ask the government to do something about the logging when it 's owned by themselves , I mean , or rather it 's controlled by the powers of the country and the only way to do something there is to boycott their timber , not to pressure the government , and we 're back to , you know , back to square one . |
| 13 | In a libertarian world there is no reason for the government to do anything about the poor ; the matter is conveniently left to private charity . |
| 14 | Nobody could believe that the Government do anything for the British coal industry because they are absent from the debate and have not done anything to help our plight . |
| 15 | The man does something in the car again . |
| 16 | Anyway erm I think we totally support the thrust of what you 're asking about and I was asked to make a special appeal to County Council to see whether they could assist with this recently established Rural Options Land Bank , the purpose of which is rather extraordinary , but I mean it is defined landowners who have a philanthropic bent to provide the land to do something about the very problem you 've raised . |
| 17 | He has natural flair which gives him the ability to do anything with the ball he wants to . |
| 18 | Of course , the fact that you have written a computer program that will do what an animal does is no proof that the animal does it in the same way . |
| 19 | Well , four days on with thousands of people still on the site at Castle Morton Common , there 's growing anger locally that nobody seems to have the power to do anything about the travellers.Villagers say they 're under siege . |
| 20 | ‘ The Mamelukes did nothing to the hurt of Kyrenia , because the King stopped them . |
| 21 | Erm just a couple of points here , th this form is one of positive identification , that there is no need to do anything with the boxes that you 're not going to touch . |
| 22 | Although some of the things that you were taught you maybe never got a chance to do them in the bakery . |
| 23 | Have n't had a chance to do anything to the room since . |
| 24 | ‘ Isobel will get a man to do it in the spring . ’ |
| 25 | The French in South India were eliminated as a political power in the 1760 and 1761 campaigns ; the Moghul emperors were in no position to do anything about the rise of British power because , just a few months before the battle of Plassey , an Afghan army had marched south-east and plundered Delhi again . |
| 26 | Speaking on television on July 7 , he said : " At no time did anyone in the campaign , connected with the campaign , associated with the campaign , meet or negotiate or agree or conspire with anyone to delay the release of the hostages . " |
| 27 | So if we get an idea to do something for the residents we do not need to go through endless red tape in order to get it done . |