Example sentences of "do [verb] this [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What would lie do to help this floundering teacher ? |
| 2 | What harm could it do to play this little game another few minutes ? |
| 3 | Except for measures such as the Ribbon Development Act 1935 and the Green Belt Act 1938 , introduced too late to be effective , little was done to control this urban sprawl . |
| 4 | Why then had nothing been done to change this long-standing nonsense ? |
| 5 | What was done to achieve this elusive parity of esteem which was required if the new schools were to be acceptable to parents and pupils ? |
| 6 | Given all the aforementioned , what has our group tried to do to combat this new legislation ? |
| 7 | Then all you have to do to win this exclusive guitar is to answer the following six questions and , if you 're the first correct entry out of the hat , this incredible instrument is yours . |
| 8 | All you need to do to get this indispensable item is to take out a new subscription to Outdoor Action . |
| 9 | All you have to do to enter this brilliant competition is to complete the entry form and send it together with your photographs to Hairflair/Supersoft Most Beautiful Hair Competition , 178/182 Pentonville Road , London , N1 9LB . |
| 10 | And while with me doth dwell this wearied ghost , |
| 11 | And , of course , the American army did liberate this south-western corner of Bohemia , though it is only in recent weeks that the new government has permitted the fact to be acknowledged . |
| 12 | I do n't quite know what I did to deserve this radical revision in status . |
| 13 | And I believe I did choose this new life , that I was not coerced . |
| 14 | Whilst it is always advisable to have a power tool regularly serviced , including safety checks , we did like this practical information to save the d-i-yer unnecessary costs . |
| 15 | I do believe this bloody business betrays the involvement of our old friend Professor Lionel Atwill . |
| 16 | ‘ You do have this unfortunate knack … |
| 17 | I mean , do to have this astonishing capacity of switch all the time . |
| 18 | Because Marx never did write this anthropological work , it is futile to speculate too much on how his position would have been different from that of Engels . |
| 19 | This interpretation makes it quite clear that the disposition in the will has failed , and that it is only thanks to the trust clause that the nurses do obtain this additional income . |
| 20 | Erm and you do get this growing awareness that not all of that while all liberals might be nationalists . |
| 21 | I really do love this old place . ’ |
| 22 | I really do love this old place , Mandy had said . |
| 23 | The local Labour MP , George Foulkes , whose constituency of Carrick , Cumnock and Doon Valley contains the Digital plant , said : ‘ This is good news for the Ayr workforce and I congratulate the management there and the Scottish Office for the work they did to achieve this successful outcome . |
| 24 | At this juncture it should be noted that a considerable proportion of international lending does take this latter form . |
| 25 | Pešek is low-voltage by comparison , but he has a lot of heart , he means everything he says , and he does offer this intriguing programme . |