Example sentences of "[vb -s] do [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he was lukewarm about putting a cap on prices as Oftel has done with telephone charges . |
| 2 | County Councillor , Councillor on my right , I think is to be congratulated on the work he has done with County Highways on our behalf , and has written to District Council recommending refusal . |
| 3 | That , er , Chairman , if I could say the thing that bothers me here is that , it always has done about food , is that we should be keeping up to date with information , all these decisions and all this advice . |
| 4 | The ‘ fair works ’ of Nature provided Wordsworth with a contrasting background which showed up more clearly ‘ what man has done to man ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I wish to tell you , ’ he said , ‘ of the harm and danger that religion has done to humanity , preaching hatred instead of the law of love . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Local management of schools has done to education what opted-out hospitals has done for the NHS . |
| 7 | Although the beef market is now in a better position , does not the hon. Gentleman realise the damage that he has done to beef consumption and to our farmers in the past year by constantly highlighting that issue on radio and television ? |
| 8 | What he has done for leukaemia research is brilliant — and what he has done for me is give me my confidence back . |
| 9 | I just had to write to you , to tell the Tennis World readers what a certain , beautiful lady has done for tennis and for her supporters . |
| 10 | Well add to this a built-in tuner , internal monitor speaker for practising and a versatile range of footswitch control and you 'll see that the RY10 is set to do for guitarists what our ground-breaking QY10 has done for Keyboard players and for just £249 ! |
| 11 | Indeed , the Conservative Party did begin to widen its potential appeal by issuing a plethora of pamphlets in the 1920s : Aims and Principles ( 1924 ) , What Unionists have done for Workers ( 1925 ) , What the Conservative Government has done for Education ( 1928 ) and What the Conservative Government has done for Health ( 1929 ) . |
| 12 | So whatever the ankle has done for sex , its contribution to other games of chance has been incalculable . |
| 13 | One thing America has done for Lemmy is to afford him the chance to fulfil an ambition … |
| 14 | Indeed , the Conservative Party did begin to widen its potential appeal by issuing a plethora of pamphlets in the 1920s : Aims and Principles ( 1924 ) , What Unionists have done for Workers ( 1925 ) , What the Conservative Government has done for Education ( 1928 ) and What the Conservative Government has done for Health ( 1929 ) . |
| 15 | He can send legislation back to parliament , veto the prime minister 's choice of ministers ( as President Evren has done on occasion ) and in extreme circumstances dissolve the National Assembly and call a general election . |
| 16 | grateful to Mr for his very erm generous en endorsement of the work that the Board has done on health and healing . |
| 17 | What he has done on screen , however , is to reduce the Neverland to the lowest common denominator of American junk culture . |
| 18 | What he has done on screen , however , is to reduce the Neverland to the lowest common denominator of American junk culture . |
| 19 | ‘ What he [ Spielberg ] has done on screen , ’ said Hugo Davenport on these pages , ‘ is to reduce the Neverland to the lowest common denominator of American junk culture . |
| 20 | Prohibition does not work in preventing alcoholism and never has done throughout history . |
| 21 | I think basically what I 'd like to say today is that I personally agree with what Ida 's saying that it is an attack on the Health Service , and it is the greatest achievement that the Labour Party has done in history in my opinion . |
| 22 | I think now that her predominance has done in justice to lesser things in my life , as indeed it may still do . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ I 'm delighted with the work he has done in training and the commitment he has shown when I have asked him to play . ’ |
| 24 | this or that anybody without the private means to pay for it , has to do without physiotherapy . |
| 25 | Accuracy has to do with behaviour , acquisition has to do with knowledge . |
| 26 | Accuracy has to do with behaviour , acquisition has to do with knowledge . |
| 27 | Climate has to do with behaviour , attitudes and feelings which are fairly easily observed . |
| 28 | Their change of mind has to do with brute economics , the new Europe , and long-lived discontent . |
| 29 | It has to do with land as well as landscape , and the right to farm in a time-honoured way . ’ |
| 30 | Maybe it 's not easy to see what all this has to do with cancer , but you must bear with me if I tell you that it has . |