Example sentences of "do [prep] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The great Labour party — which brought together militants , because it thought that they knew what they could do for the working people of this country — is scornfully setting democracy aside . |
2 | What would that do for the living conditions of the poor ? |
3 | Erm what we 're gon na do for the second part of the morning is to look , if you like at the tourism application for the determinants of demand . |
4 | ‘ I 've taken another envelope : it 'll do for the next batch of typescript . ’ |
5 | Why not leave slogging through all that real-time stuff to the critics , and just make do with the flashy emptiness of the trailer ? |
6 | I think that teachers need to know people that they can turn to for further advice , but that they could familiarize themselves much more with what , as it were , they can do in the first instance by screening children , by using there are number of published materials , learning inventories , that can be used to discover whether a child has some difficulties that might point in this direction of dyslexia . |
7 | Just to show you how this has developed , you do n't need to copy this down , it 's something that you 'll do in the second year of your course , but we mentioned in particular here how you interact with people and what goes through your head . |
8 | Erm so we we asked and asked and asked could we change back to the old nutrients which we did do in the early part of December , and lo and behold , suddenly there was n't a problem . |
9 | Pleasant to browse but unwise to buy as I could do without the extra weight of heavy tomes for the long haul after the town up past Hay Bluff to the Gospel Pass — a climb to more than 1,750 ft . |
10 | His portable laboratory is set up in a small tent which is unbearably hot , and could well do without the added heat from his bunsen burner . |
11 | And he thought he could do without the high-interest assistance of French or Swiss bankers . |
12 | ‘ If you 're so sure , what would you do on the last day of your life ? ’ |
13 | ‘ I can tell you what I 'd do on the last day of my life , ’ he said . |
14 | ‘ But I 've made it with United and now I want the chance to show what I can do at the highest level of all . ’ |