Example sentences of "[vb past] to 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 | " We came to do something about the record-player , " Sandra said brightly . |
| 5 | I seemed to do anything to the car , mind with the water pump I think they check , they have to er adjust the timing . |
| 6 | He said he learnt to do it in the field during the Falklands War . |
| 7 | They undertook to do it for the whole of the Caldmore area did they ? |
| 8 | Since I had to do something during the hours I was supposed to be with Sophie , I joined the local Labour Party . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If the ‘ normal ’ woman had no libido , our worthy surgeons had to do something about the clitoris . |
| 12 | Many of those who went and fought for the Republicans were not always clear about why they were there , except that they felt a revulsion against fascism and a general feeling that they had to do something in the face of the frustrations of the 1930s . |
| 13 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 14 | ‘ Our children had to do it in the Cultural Revolutiion ten years later . |
| 15 | when you wanted to do something with the keys or operate er horizontal , there was a machine and you had to go to the do it yourself . |
| 16 | In 1985 a smooth man ’ , a ‘ sophisticated hustler ’ appeared in Washington and approached North , saying he wanted to do something for the contras . |
| 17 | Unless you wanted to do something in the kitchen as well of course . |
| 18 | When I spoke I made it clear that I intended to do something about the position of the ‘ early leavers ’ and that I thought it right that people should not suffer if they transferred their pension from one job to another . |