Example sentences of "[adj] do [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd just had some done for our engagement . |
| 2 | ‘ And what the hell will this do to my tournament ? ’ |
| 3 | In general terms , however , the present state of the law is that an individual who has reached the age of 18 is free to do with his life what he wishes , but it is the duty of the court to ensure so far as it can that children survive to attain that age . |
| 4 | Some of the reasons are religious ; some literary ; some to do with his well-merited reputation as a blunt-talking character who , like Samuel Johnson , drew the wisdom of his conversation and letters from ancient sources , Christian or pagan , as much as modern — a wisdom somehow as congenial to the sceptical as to the godly . |
| 5 | What had any of this to do with her husband 's death or affair , she asked herself ? |
| 6 | Is this to do with our inability as a nation to be direct when there is something unpalatable to say ? |
| 7 | What has this to do with our central theme of locality ? |
| 8 | The damage this did to our criticism was as nothing compared with the harm it did to our poetry . |
| 9 | The French , who kept the three fertile and relatively large islands of Martinique , Guadeloupe , and St. Domingue produced about as much sugar as the British did from their ten islands , where the soil was showing signs of becoming exhausted . |
| 10 | I often say that if we thought as much about the English language and teaching it and all that that means as the French do about their language and the Alliance Francaise , we would back the British Council to the hilt . |
| 11 | The damage this does to our Christian life is incalculable . |
| 12 | In the 1460s , that was an outrage to accepted norms , and it had much to do with their downfall two years later . |
| 13 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 14 | That the attack was an unmitigated tactical disaster for the American military no doubt had much to do with its omission in post-war tales . |
| 15 | There might seem to be a number of inherent problems in producing a journal on British Surrealism , namely that the possibility of live interviews will diminish as the first generation of these artists and writers die off in the next few years ; secondly , there seems to be a tendency on the part of those who produce surrealist literature to make it look surrealist , although the rather bitty appearance of the present journal is probably as much to do with its very low budget ( a small grant from the University of London ) as with its artistic affiliations . |
| 16 | Er , I 've got too much to do with my lodgers . |
| 17 | But he said : ‘ Football is as much to do with your mental attitude as it is to anything else ours just is n't right at the moment . |
| 18 | Is that very much to do with your sort of research you do ? |
| 19 | Most US media-watchers agree that Hall 's exposure in that film had much to do with his landing a primetime podium of his own . |
| 20 | This has n't got to much to do with his gangling , freakishly elongated frame , which he 's used to evolve a unique form of comedic body language , flapping around on stage as he does like a dislocated stick insect , the missing link between Jerry Lewis and Pee Wee Herman . |
| 21 | Hopper 's direction of Easy Rider had much to do with his own appreciation of historical art and his painting skills . |
| 22 | I think the toughening and , if you like , the coarsening of his nature had much to do with his own insecurities , his fears , his shyness and his realization that he was somewhat out of place among the more gung-ho and simple-minded types who make up the bulk of racing drivers . |
| 23 | But the conflicts he generates have much to do with his job dissatisfaction . |
| 24 | His own feeling of staleness as an editor had much to do with his disenchantment at the kind of culture with which he now had to deal . |
| 25 | He knew that what he was feeling did n't have much to do with his brush with death . |
| 26 | There are moral pressures that can be , er er , applied , because nothing much to do with our sort of morality . |
| 27 | What does a course do for students that they would find difficult or impossible to do on their own ? |
| 28 | Actually , I might just have had a little to do with his death , as it occurred less than a year after the Stoves lost their only child , Esmerelda . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , the General , having no idea of my father 's feelings , took full opportunity to relate anecdotes of his military accomplishments — as of course many military gentlemen are wont to do to their valets in the privacy of their rooms . |
| 30 | As Whitehall began to treat directly with nationalists , doling out to them bits of ‘ responsibility ’ as DOs were wont to do with their native authorities , the mystique of the boma began to wither away : in the DO 's apotheosis lay paradoxically the seeds of his decline . |