Example sentences of "[vb past] do [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She bent her head so he could n't see her blush at the thought that he meant their own relationship , and pretended to do something to the heel of her shoe . |
| 2 | And we tried to do something about the problem of alcoholism and prostitution in the area by getting the bars and brothels registered with the local government . |
| 3 | Yes , yes , when Paddy tried to do ours in the flat need to use small screw drivers to make the , the . |
| 4 | Right so if you get to know if you drew do it through the week do n't worry about the pie charts do n't worry about the fractions . |
| 5 | So that that just stopped did it in the end . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'd done nothing on the first two days here and I thought it was all going wrong . |
| 7 | " We came to do something about the record-player , " Sandra said brightly . |
| 8 | I seemed to do anything to the car , mind with the water pump I think they check , they have to er adjust the timing . |
| 9 | He said he learnt to do it in the field during the Falklands War . |
| 10 | He began doing them in the earliest days of his career down on Coenties Slip in the late Fifties ( where the drawing classes held in Fred Mitchell 's loft became legendary ) and has kept steadily at them ever since . |
| 11 | They undertook to do it for the whole of the Caldmore area did they ? |
| 12 | No it does all over the place , wherever put newspaper down , he does it on the carpet so kept doing it by the cooker so we put newspaper down there , and put the toys away , see they was in the way you see , put newspaper down there and then next would n't have that , . |
| 13 | So erm anyway they they they did do it in the end . |
| 14 | The first was that , with the passage in 1832 of the Reform Bill came the full realisation that parliamentary reform had done nothing for the emergent working class , except to isolate it . |
| 15 | It was a disgraceful act which I do not condone , but I am almost certain my son had done nothing of the kind before . |
| 16 | That would have been absurd because the word , ‘ converts , ’ itself implied that the bailee had done something with the bailed goods which was not authorised by the terms of the bailment . |
| 17 | Gregory of Tours and Bede both knew that the conversion of their peoples to Christianity had done something to the religion to which they were converted . |
| 18 | The railways had done it to the canals and now it was to happen in turn to the railways . |
| 19 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 20 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 21 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 22 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 23 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 24 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 25 | Well I , I had done it at the interval . |
| 26 | He had done it in the street in front of everyone . |
| 27 | Since I had to do something during the hours I was supposed to be with Sophie , I joined the local Labour Party . |
| 28 | God had to do something on the cross , in Christ , in order that his love which he has for us as sinners might become forgiveness for us in reality . |
| 29 | No one disputes that the Tribune Company , publisher of the Chicago Tribune among other papers , had to do something about the decade-long trickle of losses at the Daily News , America 's oldest tabloid and New York 's largest-circulation newspaper . |
| 30 | If the ‘ normal ’ woman had no libido , our worthy surgeons had to do something about the clitoris . |