Example sentences of "do [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something had to be done to tame this circuit , and it was … the " Ring " was brought down to size . |
| 2 | In response to the burglary my reaction became : ‘ Actually when I think about it and allow all the facts to sink in it is just too awful ; there really is nothing I can do to pretend this has n't happened . |
| 3 | The classic statement ‘ What did I do to deserve this ? ’ has but a single answer : Nothing ! |
| 4 | WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS ? |
| 5 | The answer is of course What Have I Done to Deserve This ? , made before his international hits Law of Desire and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown . |
| 6 | I do n't know what I 've done to deserve this . ’ |
| 7 | I imagine at times the Carter pair sitting in the studio thinking , ‘ What have we done to deserve this ? ’ |
| 8 | What have they done to deserve this bonus ? |
| 9 | I asked the under-foreman what I 'd done to deserve this , he says You 're not on your own , there 's er a quarter to go this week and good many next , so that 's what it 's come to . |
| 10 | ‘ What have I ever done to deserve this ? ’ |
| 11 | What have I done to deserve this ? |
| 12 | ‘ What the hell have I done to deserve this ? ’ he asked of no one in particular . |
| 13 | VHS recordings of the four Pet Shop Boy 's videos — Rent , Heart , It 's A Sin and What have I Done To Deserve This ? — for a good price , of course , or whatever you would like in return . |
| 14 | The responses to " What questions do you want to ask here ? " might range from " What happens next ? " through " What has he done to deserve this ? " and " What can he do about it ? " to " They 're both looking in this direction . |
| 15 | Since you have taken up the Mastership of Jesus College , what have you done to encourage this , especially young contemporary British artists ? |
| 16 | erm this Shirley that 's done written this up and she said about our own craft evening and variety of things and all that . |
| 17 | The name of the author was evidently a pseudonym , but it was hoped that the committee would take steps to find out who he was , would decide what should be done to clean this canker out of Tollemarche , and would take more steps to curb their local bookseller 's and cigar stores ' choice of books . |
| 18 | Nothing was done to arrest this by the local council , which had discretionary powers to do so . |
| 19 | Consider what you can do to avoid this in the future . |
| 20 | What would lie do to help this floundering teacher ? |
| 21 | What harm could it do to play this little game another few minutes ? |
| 22 | He 's sort of saying , he 's justifying it in , in a very Marxist way , he said this is our duty , what we 're doing is , is , is natural , it 's a process of , of his history you know that there 's nothing we can do avoid this and we should in fact be pleased to see th th this actually taking place , it 's er it 's not a question at all of , of the parents going , peasants going too far , it 's not er a reign of terror at all , erm in fact more than that it , it 's a sort of erm it , it 's not even retribution i it 's a , it 's a course of history . |
| 23 | Is there anything I can do to solve this problem ? |
| 24 | What can be done to harness this interest and give the public the scientific background it needs to make informed decisions on subjects like acid rain , the greenhouse effect , nuclear weapons , and genetic engineering ? |
| 25 | Mercifully , he was wrong , but despite everything that is being done to protect this greatest of predators , it is very doubtful if its lease of life in the wild can be extended very much longer . |
| 26 | Yet she felt little had been done to address this problem in school and if in these circumstances she now accepted residential school she would be giving up on Tom . |
| 27 | The risks and benefits of adding intravenous heparin to aspirin and thrombolysis are unknown and will remain so until trials are done to address this question adequately . |
| 28 | Except for measures such as the Ribbon Development Act 1935 and the Green Belt Act 1938 , introduced too late to be effective , little was done to control this urban sprawl . |
| 29 | So what can Virgin do to turn this round and start trading profitably ? |
| 30 | An enthusiast from the start , she had been attending Edith Harlow 's Woodford Green Medau class for less than a year when she approached Edith with the bold question ‘ What do I do to teach this ? ’ |