Example sentences of "to do [prep] the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie had so little to do during the day that she spent much of the time chatting and gossiping with Rose . |
| 2 | For the mother of toddlers or babies , you may have plenty to do during the day but your mind needs stimulating too . |
| 3 | Duty sheets ( basic tasks to do during the morning or on afternoon shift ) |
| 4 | Well if he was there and you came along well that 's two people , so it 's not that secluded , okay , so we have to look on the positive side , if at the end of the day you 're going to get to a situation where , okay , you can see that the ordinary erm true blue course of events is just not gon na work , then it 's down to you , you have then got to make up your own mind what you 're going to do for the casualty and your own safety , okay , if somebody had been bleeding that long and you could n't of got help for them , what would your priority now probably be ? |
| 5 | None too quietly , he asked the woman if she would mind leaving him alone , just for a while , since he had something more important to do for the minute than listen to her gripes and belly-aching . |
| 6 | ‘ As I know myself to be entirely English … ’ she told Parliament in March 1702 , three days after her accession , ‘ there is not one thing you can expect or desire of me which I shall not be ready to do for the happiness or prosperity of England . ’ |
| 7 | On the one hand some teachers saw the process as a hindrance — as something they had to do for the LEA and which would have little consequence for themselves . |
| 8 | To do underneath the window or on top of the door or some silly thing like that |
| 9 | The most obvious questions have to do with the elements or components of the curriculum : the things that go to make it up ( see Figure 1.1 ) . |
| 10 | Nothing in particular , just a yawning emptiness , a cold chilling air which had little to do with the ice and snow outside . |
| 11 | ‘ I would have nothing to do with the Prince or his catamite ! ’ |
| 12 | While I owe much to that tradition and trust that I am still persona grata within it , in many respects I have gone beyond Evangelical thought on matters to do with the Church and sacraments . |
| 13 | GUIL : ( Musing ) The law of probability , it has been oddly asserted , is something to do with the proposition that if six monkeys ( He has surprised himself ) … if six monkeys were … |
| 14 | Stars who were nothing to do with the film but stuck their necks out anyway included Sharon ( Basic Instinct ) Stone and Jason ( Beverly Hills 90210 ) Priestley . |
| 15 | This is affected by many things , most of which are to do with the interests and the values of the researcher , which are usually interrelated . |
| 16 | More prosperous hamlets would have nothing to do with the inhabitants and , but for the Community 's care , many would have starved or died prematurely . |
| 17 | This had little to do with the computer but it did spur us into action . |
| 18 | Now it 's nothing to do with the day or the time or the months or the week or anything like that . |
| 19 | I have , item , paragraph one , Mr Chairman , is right to do with the work that has to be done . |
| 20 | We had the most wonderful evening , it began with a film show , an extremely well er composed film to do with the work that is being done , the variety of work that is being done in the variety of places . |
| 21 | But as a small child she was so inspired by anything to do with the theatre that at six she was sent to the Barbara Speake stage school in Acton , west London . |
| 22 | The '90s have not started well for Wales 's native cattle breed , but the halving of the Royal Welsh Black entries to 41 had more to do with the recession and choice of judge than the breed 's current popularity . |
| 23 | Since Hilton is at pains to show that true contemplation had nothing to do with the emotions and clearly disapproves of Rolle 's spirituality , the term seems puzzling . |
| 24 | I 'm sorry for the five minute delay most of you , I had to seek out about a administrative matter , an administrative matter , nothing to do with the evidence or the place for Mr you had told us earlier in the week about several situations , as the management company . |
| 25 | While the Anglo-American partnership was vital but unequal in maintaining the First and Second Pillars of grand strategy , Britain was expected to go it alone in supporting the Third Pillar , which was an essentially British requirement that had little to do with the Americans or the North Atlantic Alliance . |
| 26 | The ‘ tangent … in the hand 's cup ’ has to do with the legend that the shapes of the finest Greek vases were replicated from the contour of the divinely beautiful woman 's breast , as cupped in her lover 's hand and thereafter imprinted on his mind — obviously a powerful emblem of how the impulse to artistic manufacture is erotic . |
| 27 | The studies from Nigeria suggest that this failure may be as much to do with the character and personality traits of the generation of entrepreneurs who developed their businesses in the 1960s . |
| 28 | And I daresay the worry about what to do with the cat or the problem of finding spare time in the executive diary keeps other unhappy couples together . |
| 29 | In the Three Tier model , the head acknowledges that there is a substantial field of decision-making to do with the content and development of specific aspects of the curriculum which requires the expertise and time of others . |
| 30 | Interesting facts culled from a meeting with the leading lights of both Aldus and Adobe at last year 's Appleworld show indicate that the main problem with PostScript on the Macintosh is the QuickDraw to PostScript conversion process and has nothing at all to do with the LaserWriter or PostScript . |