Example sentences of "do [indef pn] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I can adjust the stove , if you like , " said Richard , in relief " I can do something to the regulator . " |
| 2 | Gregory of Tours and Bede both knew that the conversion of their peoples to Christianity had done something to the religion to which they were converted . |
| 3 | I mean he kept , I mean he did n't do anything to the city you ca n't even see it from the old one 's still standing and it 's in the wrong it 's so nice . |
| 4 | He wants to do something to the camp . |
| 5 | But he wants to do something to the camp . |
| 6 | She bent her head so he could n't see her blush at the thought that he meant their own relationship , and pretended to do something to the heel of her shoe . |
| 7 | This is because the crime of indecent assault requires the defendant to do something to the victim . |
| 8 | The one that he 's done so far was at the end of December and erm he is going to do one to the end of March and that 's going to be a regular thing . |
| 9 | Have n't had a chance to do anything to the room since . |
| 10 | I seemed to do anything to the car , mind with the water pump I think they check , they have to er adjust the timing . |
| 11 | Said Professor Hoskins of the University of Reading : " We know that human activities are doing something to the system but computer models are too crude at present to predict what will happen . " |
| 12 | Therese was standing on the stage , Madge Grimsilk on her knees crouching and doing something to the bottom of Therese 's costume , which was most certainly not the hired costume . |
| 13 | Locke 's philosophy about property accepted the settlers ' point of view : in his theory it is the man on the spot who is doing something to the land ( though mainly by directing the labour of the people he has brought over at his own expense ) who is justly entitled to ownership . |
| 14 | Is he doing something to the tree ? |
| 15 | But in the second the word ‘ ride ’ suggests that the man is doing something to the horse . |
| 16 | ‘ The Mamelukes did nothing to the hurt of Kyrenia , because the King stopped them . |
| 17 | The man in the booth did something to the turnstile , then we all pushed in . |
| 18 | It also did something to the plumbing , and it was decided not to keep us for the month we had been promised , but to billet us out to houses nearby . |
| 19 | You did something to the catch before did n't you ? |
| 20 | And what does something to the power point three , mean ? |