Example sentences of "do [adv] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , local authorities have had a duty , since 1968 , to provide adequate sites for gipsies normally resorting to their area and , where they have done so to the satisfaction of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment , they have criminal powers to remove illegal campers . |
| 2 | He done down to the top of the trainer |
| 3 | Unfortunately for him the work was being done close to the room where one of the most lively goats lived . |
| 4 | She writes that in August 1941 , before the Final Solution orders were given , Goebbels complained to Hitler that ‘ Antonescu proceeds in these matters in a far more radical fashion than we have done up to the present . ’ |
| 5 | How this is done relatively to the subject and the grades will be clear if we look at some of the grade criteria for history , published in 1985 . |
| 6 | Teachers have constantly to buttonhole each other as they pass in the staffroom and tack extra things to do on to the bottom of each other 's already overlong agendas . |
| 7 | Leonard could be depressive along with many other poets ( the psycho-endocrinological critique of poetry has yet to be written ! ) ; he could also be uplifting and assertive ; he could , indeed , write ‘ about something ’ to use Faulkner 's phrase from The Bear , and did so to the advantage of large numbers of people who gladly read , and asked for more . |
| 8 | : Confess what you did wrong to the person you wronged . |
| 9 | This mattered little while Antarctica remained virtually empty , as it did up to the end of World War II , but became important in post-war years when scientists and technicians of many nations began to work there . |
| 10 | Man United do n't to the fans . |
| 11 | When the State itself undertakes investment , it rarely does so to the benefit of the older industrialized regions . |