Example sentences of "do [pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If at any time after a person has been charged with or informed he may be prosecuted for an offence a police officer wishes to bring to the notice of that person any written statement made by another person or the content of an interview with another person , he shall hand to that person a true copy of any such written statement or bring to his attention the content of the interview record , but shall say or do nothing to invite any reply or comment save to caution him in the terms of paragraph 10.4 above . |
| 2 | We have a clean and green image and produce the healthiest meat possible for consumption and we must do nothing to harm that image . |
| 3 | The lower prices have had a dampening effect on innovative schemes to make better use of the natural resources consumed , and will do nothing to stimulate necessary investment by the generators on modernising their capacity . |
| 4 | These new measures will do nothing to improve industrial relations in this country . |
| 5 | Rightly , the central bank argues that cheapening the peso would do nothing to enhance Mexican competitiveness , since it would feed through swiftly into inflation . |
| 6 | In the end , I want the Tories to win and I will do nothing to prejudice that position . ’ |
| 7 | The system was ‘ crazy ’ and would do nothing to help struggling publicans , he said . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Cutbacks in the budget have done nothing to curb chronic overstaffing : any official above teaboy needs a full supporting cast . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ He vehemently opposes active regional policies , he has wound up a lot of the government 's aid to the North and during his term as Industry Secretary he has done nothing to create new technology and skills or back new firms and enterprise in Hartlepool . ’ |
| 11 | As the Prime Minister has done nothing to change that policy in his first year , is not Majorism simply Thatcherism without the courage of her convictions ? |
| 12 | Handsome , talented , and wealthy he might be , but he was also rude and abrasive , and she had done nothing to deserve such treatment . |
| 13 | Nicholas I had put some order into 200 years of imperial legislation by publishing the Complete Collection and Digest of the Laws , but he had done nothing to alter judicial procedure . |
| 14 | 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 ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We can all do something to help endangered species by supporting or taking part in such survey work , because many small observations , when put together , can reveal a hidden solution to a conservation problem . |
| 17 | There is no denying that the present government has done something to influence both sides of this equation . |
| 18 | Many also feel responsible because they assume that they must have done something to bring this man down . |
| 19 | Have I done anything to forfeit that confidence ? |
| 20 | ‘ You ca n't do anything to stop young people having sex so you have to help them . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And we 'd do anything to prevent another child dying in the same way . |
| 24 | Family grief : ‘ We talk about Danny a lot and would do anything to prevent another child dying in the same way ’ |
| 25 | The question is : can translators do anything to minimize this skewing ? |
| 26 | Democratic party chairman Ron Brown added : ‘ George Bush has already said he would do anything to win this election . |
| 27 | I had to do something to start this cow 's insides functioning because I did not like the look of her today . |
| 28 | But I felt I had to do something to keep some sanity in racing . |
| 29 | May we try to do something to make other people 's lives happier and easier — even those people who seem to be doing nothing at all to help us . |
| 30 | I wanted to do it to help other people in this position . |