Example sentences of "do [pron] [verb] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D' you want this wood ? |
| 2 | ‘ How d' you know this place ? ’ she asked . |
| 3 | The veteran foreign minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , has done nothing to allay this idea , bluntly denying the debt his country owes to the west by declaring , ‘ There is not a capitalist Germany and a communist Germany , there is only one German nation ’ . |
| 4 | When one passes such messages back to one 's constituents , they say , ’ Who will do something to stop this nuisance , which is causing enormous problems not only to me but to the whole area ? ’ |
| 5 | The exercise would tire him — that always helped : he would seek out Joanna once more and that , too , would do something to unlock this pain of want which would rise up in him from nowhere , and beat against the walls of his mind until he thought he would never be able to bear it . |
| 6 | Many also feel responsible because they assume that they must have done something to bring this man down . |
| 7 | Erm he makes a distinction between poor peasants , some being utterly destitute and some just being less destitute but er basically as er seventy percent of the population erm they 're the main group that 's pushing revolution forward and s so therefore I mean it 's this group that the Communist Party must n't alienate , you know , they mu must n't do anything to harm this group , associations the Communist Party must n't attack erm the associations . |
| 8 | It happened that one of the doctors practised hypnosis , and the sister of the ward concerned approached him and asked him if he could do anything to calm this patient who was disrupting the ward routine and upsetting the nurses . |
| 9 | The question is : can translators do anything to minimize this skewing ? |
| 10 | Democratic party chairman Ron Brown added : ‘ George Bush has already said he would do anything to win this election . |
| 11 | I had to do something to start this cow 's insides functioning because I did not like the look of her today . |
| 12 | He liked Donald a great deal ; and the prospect of the man 's imminent death did nothing to dispel this feeling , since he was the person directly responsible for this state of affairs . |
| 13 | Studies carried out in Hull , did nothing to confirm this prediction . |
| 14 | The Pope 's visit to Central America in March 1983 did nothing to alter this situation . |
| 15 | Now , where do I sign this thing ? |
| 16 | To me , that record was like , ‘ Okay , I 'm in this band , we 've sold thirty million records or whatever it was , but do I deserve this success ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ So to what do I owe this honour ? ’ she asked instead . |
| 18 | ‘ To what , ’ she asked tightly , ‘ do I owe this privilege ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ To what do I owe this pleasure ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , I am , and to what do I owe this pleasure ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And to what do I owe this pleasure ? ’ she enquired , telling herself that she must be light and bright . |
| 22 | Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time . |
| 23 | So they should , and when the list of necessities is securely written down , you can ask the second question : How do I want this garden to feel ? |
| 24 | Why do I need this sleep that covers me |
| 25 | How portable do I need this cot to be ? |
| 26 | I just want you to know that not only do I hate this dress , I hate you even more . ’ |
| 27 | Why do I have this dream about drowning ? |
| 28 | And all she wants to know is do I use this jug , or do we use that jug . |
| 29 | The first is ‘ Do I trust this witness ? ’ |
| 30 | Why do I recommend this type of DIY practice ? |