Example sentences of "do much [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They decided they could n't do much about the rape , but they dealt with the wife beating by publicly humiliating and parading the culprits ! |
| 2 | You probably ca n't do much about the rain , but you can work out contingency plans such as having helpers to park participants ' cars or arranging minibuses to shuttle between the centre and the car park . |
| 3 | You ca n't do much at the Print Manager end to speed things up , aside from giving it more priority . |
| 4 | She ca n't do much with the place until probate is granted . ’ |
| 5 | This behaviour undoubtedly enhances the survival of the transposon , but — as Crick , with Leslie Orgel , Ford Doolittle and Carmen Sapienza argued , it does n't necessarily do much for the bacterium in which the transposon is a passenger . |
| 6 | The resonance of this fine building did not do much for the choir 's inaccurate diction , but made amends by enriching the gracious stone quality of the singing in Haydn 's Little Organ Mass and Faure 's Requiem . |
| 7 | The photograph did n't do much for the man . |
| 8 | Would n't do much for the value of the house , either . ’ |
| 9 | It would n't be fair for such a player — who could do much for the balance of the side as a genuine all-rounder — to be held back just because there was an ageing geriatric hanging around , trying to prolong his playing days . |
| 10 | Used to put animals to sleep , they do n't do much in the way of treatment , what we want to do from this is press for erm a P D S A grant . |
| 11 | " The man was lying in the mud , and the doctor could n't do much in the way of examination on the spot . |
| 12 | You ca n't do much in the winter , I was saying to George . |
| 13 | Susan had said that they would both have to find jobs , and one could n't do much in the art line without proper training . |
| 14 | This was written so quickly that several errors occurred , one being the omission of the name of the person who had done much of the work since September : Marvin Hawkins , the graduate student . |
| 15 | We had arranged with the agents that if we were interested we would stay the night in a local hotel and the next day meet the builder who had done much of the reconstruction of the place . |
| 16 | They had met originally when Verrall was writing a biography of Cromwell for which William had done much of the research . |
| 17 | However , we had not caught a double , so unbeknown to Rick I wound in my right hand rod which had not done much on the meat and switched over to a boilie . |
| 18 | While Colonel Sanders 's fried poultry has n't done much for the state 's image and few of us get to attend the Kentucky Derby , America 's leading spirit is becoming increasingly fashionable in Britain . |
| 19 | The UOC found that " it is patent that some feeling exists among the Unionist Press that , while in the past they have done much for the Party , the Party has not assisted in their work . |
| 20 | He justified the appeal by claiming that the smugglers had done much for the town 's " smugglers cove " image and that the town would benefit from the resultant increase in tourist trade . |
| 21 | With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them . |
| 22 | Earlier monarchs had spent very little on such things and had not done much about the world outside Europe or about the development of their colonies . |
| 23 | In the pilot scheme , the centre 's staff took about 20 hours to compile one chart , largely because it had to do much of the cartography by hand . |
| 24 | Grandparents are sometimes left to do much of the childminding while parents are out at work . |
| 25 | You will be able to do much of the installation with the power on , but turn it off before you make the final connection to the circuit that will supply the lights . |
| 26 | Wives were less involved in the farm in France than in the other countries visited , perhaps because the farms were almost all full-time units and the average size was small enough to allow the man to do much of the work on his own . |
| 27 | But , on the whole , he prefers to empower the police , by commission rogatoire to do much of the work on his behalf . |
| 28 | Rather than analyse speech mathematically it is possible to do much of the work electronically . |
| 29 | In order that too great a burden does not shift from bookseller to rep , Penguin , like Faber , has recruited merchandisers to do much of the checking . |
| 30 | There was some glow from the tiny window on the half-landing above and behind him , but not enough to do much for the hallway ; the sliver of light under his door was hard-edged , bright , unmistakeable . |