Example sentences of "do [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said if I 've got to do a dozen sausage rolls for one I 'd better do them for the others . |
| 2 | Unless they 're gon na do them on the roads there 's the motorway , that 's Manchester , unless they 're gon na do them on the roads |
| 3 | Unless they 're gon na do them on the roads there 's the motorway , that 's Manchester , unless they 're gon na do them on the roads |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , I could do them on the train to the City some morning every week . ’ |
| 5 | And then we come to the sixth race which is the eight forty five , well I 'm going to go for Angie Baby here in trap three , she 's erm a little bit of a kidder but she might have the legs of these , as long as something leads her , she 'll come and erm try and do them on the line , so it 's Angie Baby for me there , erm Ruby Blue in trap six is a danger . |
| 6 | No you can do them at the front . |
| 7 | Well I 'll leave ca I do n't wan na do them till the summer , it will be too bloody wet now . |
| 8 | It will do nothing of the kind . |
| 9 | But Joe knew that Ashdown would do nothing of the kind . |
| 10 | ‘ You 'll do nothing of the sort . |
| 11 | 'I 'll do nothing of the sort , Aunt Nessy , ’ the young parson said now . |
| 12 | ‘ You 'll do nothing of the sort , ’ said her uncle firmly . |
| 13 | Firstly , I have been in football management long enough to know that team changes at this late stage will do nothing for the confidence of existing players . |
| 14 | Both thorns are tolerant of pollution and are tough enough to grow in open , exposed seaside sites regularly raked over by salt-laden winds , although these of course will do nothing for the autumn display . |
| 15 | Making it hard for directors to talk to outsiders will also do nothing for the cause of good management . |
| 16 | One farmer claimed he would do nothing to the buildings until his son had been confirmed in the tenancy . |
| 17 | But England could do nothing with the advantage because of the ferocity and speed with which the Irish forwards hammered whichever luckless Englishman was left to tidy up the tap . |
| 18 | you have to cos they ca n't do nothing with the bits , they give you all the bits |
| 19 | If not , I will do nothing with the information you give me . |
| 20 | The Bristol University graduate , the third-choice keeper until last night , did not put a hand , or foot , wrong and he could do nothing about the Spartak goals . |
| 21 | He would do nothing about the problem , and that is why he is unsuited to hold the office of Home Secretary . |
| 22 | Luckily a team of waiters offered a line of protection , though even they could do nothing about the way he was levelling those dark eyes at her as if with deliberate and enigmatic meaning . |
| 23 | Sherlock Holmes is a very clever detective , but he can do nothing about the weather . |
| 24 | Notice that the enzyme can do nothing about the difference , h , between the initial and final energy engineer can , by digging a tunnel , reduce the height to which one must climb to travel between them , but if there is a difference of altitude between the cities he can not alter it . |
| 25 | For those reasons as I , have I , hoped made plain , it seems to me that the general scheme provided by Mrs is the one that ought to be adopted , however in my view when Mrs also makes provision for a second carer for some three hours a day that is well over egging the pudding , if I may adopt a phrase used by Mr at one stage during the case , I feel sure that in practice the two resident carers would not simply say well I 'm on duty from eight am on Monday till twelve midday on Thursday and I shall do nothing during the rest of the week , I think that living in the household for , at |
| 26 | ‘ We ca n't do nothing without the money . ’ |
| 27 | ( b ) A registered foreign lawyer shall do nothing in the course of practising in partnership with a solicitor which , if done by a solicitor would put the solicitor in breach of any of these rules or any other rules , principles or requirements of conduct applicable to solicitors . |
| 28 | ( c ) A registered foreign lawyer shall do nothing in the course of practising as the director of a recognised body which puts the recognised body in breach of any of these rules , or any other rules , principles or requirements of conduct applicable to recognised bodies . ’ |
| 29 | Referring to the burden which subsidies placed on the state budget , Ben Ali said that " we can no longer do nothing in the face of the growth of the compensation costs , which alone absorb one-quarter of state expenditure " . |
| 30 | The target may do nothing until the beginning of the following magic phase , regardless of which side 's turn it is next . |