Example sentences of "[pron] to do [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What have I to do with the Zikr ? ’ |
| 2 | You just ca n't envisage , you know , why and how they managed to afford such extravagant graves , and it 's like on two sides of a road , on one side you can only go in , and if you 're on a guided tour , erm , otherwise you 've got to , be like , somebody to do with the grave . |
| 3 | And there is still plenty to do in the garden where she is planting vegetables and some more varieties of fruit trees . |
| 4 | When spring came he 'd find plenty to do in the garden . |
| 5 | There 's plenty to do in the evening at all our HCI Clubs . |
| 6 | I spect it 's summat to do with the letter . |
| 7 | That 's how long it 's taking you to do on the paper . |
| 8 | ‘ No you 're not , there 's far too much for you to do at the farm . ’ |
| 9 | Ask the person what their best friend would advise them to do about the situation . |
| 10 | New divorce legislation reported on Dec. 9 was said to grant unprecedented rights to women , allowing divorcees to seek compensation through the courts for housework which husbands had ordered them to do during the marriage . |
| 11 | Knowing the ages of the children is also crucial in quickly planning toys and activities for them to do during the session . |
| 12 | Jonadab had already hired a new third lad , or ‘ thoddy ’ as they were known , and there was little more for them to do in the town : neither was interested in the attractions of sideshows or stalls . |
| 13 | Er doctor says not only was the taxing officer right in what he did , but he should of gone further and as I say he should of erm disallowed more interest , the basis of which erm doctor puts forward that submission before me seems to be two fold , first he points out that in fact the plaintiffs failed to perfect the order of Mr Justice er , er sorry Mr Justice erm , until the twenty fifth of May nineteen ninety three and that was a , I think he would say a probable failure on part of the plaintiffs and their solicitors to do with what his solicitor had asked them to do in the letter of the twenty third of April nineteen ninety one . |
| 14 | He argued that the kinds of jobs which young people eventually did were determined not so much by the development of their inner drives , as by the structure of opportunities by which they were surrounded — the kinds of jobs which were available for them to do in the labour market . |
| 15 | if there 's nothing you want recording what do you want me to do with the dinner ? |
| 16 | Leave the washing up for me to do in the morning . ’ |
| 17 | It was n't the nigger 's fault that he had nothing to do for the moment . |
| 18 | The nose and beard also seemed to imply , to produce , to secrete constantly a certain kind of mind which had nothing to do with the intelligence diffused throughout the books , books that I knew so intimately , and which were permeated by a gentle and God-like wisdom . ’ |
| 19 | The 18th-century mountain traveller John Macculloch described Sutherlands as containing ‘ mountains which seem as if they had tumbled from the clouds , having nothing to do with the country or each other . ’ |
| 20 | It had had nothing to do with the past and everything to do with him wanting to oust her from her home . |
| 21 | Molly , Edith ( Harlow ) and I were talking about the Medauring in Germany started by Sofie Trappe , and I said we ought to form a group in England — Molly 's reaction was ‘ that 's fine Andy so long as I have nothing to do with the organisation ’ … so that year we formed the Studio Club . |
| 22 | It 's nothing to do with the school . |
| 23 | When they dissociate themselves from the academic world of their time , they are making the time-honoured mystical point that what Wordsworth would call ‘ the meddling intellect ’ had nothing to do with the vision of God . |
| 24 | One senior umpire said : ‘ Don not being voted back as chairman had absolutely nothing to do with the uproar about the ball-changing . |
| 25 | ‘ The entire concept of artistic licence and innovation , on which we put such a high premium these days has nothing to do with the way much early Northern painting was created . |
| 26 | Has this extensive network of connections nothing to do with the way contentious issues like discrimination against women or minorities pollution , state welfare , or housing costs were kept from the political agenda for so long ? |
| 27 | How can you say that has nothing to do with the way you feel ? |
| 28 | ‘ Of course it had nothing to do with the ruby itself , the real cause was their all being so insanely superstitious . |
| 29 | The second reason is a nagging doubt that perhaps we are researching fictions of our own making ; that is , we are producing theories about experimental subjects in laboratory situations which have nothing to do with the individual in society . |
| 30 | This is the more important part of the capital/income confusion in public sector organizations : agreement on the irrelevance of income as a performance measure can often be readily obtained because service provision may have nothing to do with the profit motive ; on the other hand , all organizations have capital of some sort . |