Example sentences of "do [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It is ; she does these things well — but why the hell does she do them at all ? ’
2 Unfortunately I could do nothing at all .
3 Felipe could do nothing at all .
4 Four , you could do nothing at all and leave any course of action to the solicitors comfortable then you should be using their best endeavours to obtain the licence .
5 things like this , but regards to the fact that when , when something is sold to somebody right , erm , and then a , and , and the person who 's selling it receives the money , I mean the person the police ca n't do nothing at all about it unless fraud comes into it
6 " I can do nothing for that boy . "
7 ‘ I can do nothing for these engines here , in this storm !
8 But we could do nothing with that English nose of yours .
9 So you go into the guy you sell it to him and then you 've lost you 've got for two years you can do nothing with that person .
10 They said oh they could n't do nothing about that but er did n't think they could do much about it .
11 Ewan felt he could do nothing about this situation , and there was no use worrying about it .
12 A DG could do nothing about this .
13 We can do nothing about this letter .
14 You ca n't do nothing about any of it , in any event , so what 's the use of banging your head on a brick wall ?
15 Steven thinks that just be I only just got in he said , I 'm having my tea and he said there 's no way I 'm gon na do nothing like that at this time of night when I 've been fourteen hours at work So then he stormed off back home again so he said well you 'll have to move it cos it 's obstructing the dual carriageway someone might come round that corner fast and hit it .
16 He wo n't do nothing like that .
17 Which reminded her that they had done nothing at all about the shooting .
18 I did n't want to tell her I 'd done nothing at all so I told a sort of white lie — said I was halfway through the first draft .
19 Unless you offer positive alternatives you do more harm than if you had done nothing at all .
20 Therefore it is nonsense for the Opposition to claim that we have done nothing at all about the problems of retraining .
21 Done nothing at all in their house , but since we 've been here in doing this and that , every things been changed now in it ?
22 And in a worse position than because the North they 've never done any deals , never seen anybody , national accounts , done nothing in that area in terms of deals and negotiations and things like that and it was only six months ago that where could actually find out he could do deals .
23 and he 'd done them like that in microwave for eight minutes and er , done sprouts then he 'd put this meat pie in oven
24 Are you gon na do somebody like that ?
25 Well we can do plenty of that .
26 But he had done none of these things Instead he had kept his temper , and not even threatened to raise his hand .
27 The fact that the UK government has done none of these things , leads one to suppose that a genuine improvement in the co-ordination of health and welfare services for the most vulnerable and disabled groups in society has not been the real objective .
28 Oh I want card for run and I bet I ca n't bloody do owt with this lot .
29 He said , stupidly : ‘ I did n't think you 'd do owt like that . ’
30 Well , she would do none of that standing here in the street , she told herself firmly .
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