Example sentences of "do to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when ( 36 ) is taken as containing a real , passive , verbal notion the question will be something like ( 38 ) ( a ) or ( b ) ; and ( c ) will also be a reasonable response : ( 38 ) ( a ) what happened to the façade ? ( b ) what was done to the façade ? ( c ) when was the façade plastered ? |
| 2 | Anyone capable of sight-leading a route protected by bolts without clipping them has the right to remove them ( a regular bolt hole closed by a rock dust/epoxy mix is virtually undetectable , and no meaningful harm will have been done to the crag environment ) . |
| 3 | Ignored by the guard , who was running towards the house after being startled into wakefulness , the Doctor eyed the cloud of grey smoke critically , wondering how much damage would have been done to the villa itself . |
| 4 | What do you think the war has done to the possibility of a kind of a global settlement in the Middle East , particularly as far the Israelis are concerned ? |
| 5 | Ollie what have you done to the back of your jacket ? |
| 6 | But the memory of what he had done to the corpse was so painful Marek obliterated it from his mind . |
| 7 | The Emperor , who incidentally had wanted to pardon Orsini and his accomplice , only yielding to his ministers ' demand for execution when they pointed out that innocent people had been killed , tried to repair the damage done to the Entente . |
| 8 | In place of Aristotle 's association of time with motion and his appeal to the uniform daily revolution of the heavens as its basis , St Augustine turned , not as Plotinus had done to the concept of the ‘ world-soul ’ , but to the human mind for the ultimate source and standard of time . |
| 9 | Slade LJ continued by pointing out that , although the breach of a positive covenant is not always capable of remedy : Nevertheless , I would , for my part , accept … submission that the breach of a positive covenant ( whether it be a continuing breach or a once and for all breach ) will ordinarily be capable of remedy … the concept of capability of remedy for the purpose of section 146 must surely be directed to the question whether the harm that has been done to the landlord by the relevant breach is for practicable purposes capable of being retrieved . |
| 10 | ‘ Whatever have you done to the cloakroom ? ’ complained Edward . |
| 11 | No one can represent fully the lives of those met during a case study ; nor can full justice be done to the complexity and the range of issues , interpretations and concerns experienced by each individual . |
| 12 | This may be true for the nuclear industry and for the utility that owns the Three Mile Island ( TMI ) power station , but in terms of the physical harm done to the public , the TMI accident proved to be virtually a non-event . |
| 13 | Just think of what that has done to the system there and to all the other applicants who have been seeking help from a Department that tries to ensure that people are given the awards to which they are entitled . |
| 14 | As we have already seen , the general principle regarding a wrong done to the company is that the company is the proper plaintiff . |
| 15 | and I remember one particular February , it will always stand out in my mind because er , it 's a fairly long walk done to the factory from , from here and every day after the midday meal , when I set out to walk down there as quick as I could it had been cloudy since , it was raining , every day without fail I used to get to work soaked , first |
| 16 | WELL done to the judge who gave a mugger five years . |
| 17 | The attack was over , but how on earth could Shelley know what damage had been done to the heart muscle ? |
| 18 | The driver and guard were compelled to dress in smocks and straw hats , but the unusual feature was short-lived because of the damage done to the thatch by the wind and rain . |
| 19 | The sexual act does violate the child , but the real damage is done to the psyche , wherein lies the trauma — the memory , the damage to self esteem . |
| 20 | While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s . |
| 21 | Whichever he sues , he can not include a claim for damage done to the component or to the larger item which was supplied with the component comprised in it . |
| 22 | The damage being done to the education system does not benefit anyone and certainly not the youngsters . ’ |
| 23 | An' look what you done to the china . |
| 24 | Seeing that no serious injury had been done to the Chamden player , Darren settled on grabbing the referee 's notebook and booking himself . |
| 25 | One demand is for compensation for damage done to the land by open-cast mining . |
| 26 | The Soviet Union agreed to pay the equivalent of US$160 million to Czechoslovakia in compensation for damage done to the country since the 1968 invasion . |
| 27 | The term taille means ‘ cut ’ and that is precisely what is done to the marc in the maie after the cuvée has been extracted . |
| 28 | He says I think the vast majority of damage done to the Ridgeway is done by much heavier , bigger vehicles — farm vehicles and so on . |
| 29 | The National Trust is currently undertaking a structural survey which will reveal the full scale of the damage , but it is already known that extensive harm has been done to the brickwork , windows and terrace . |
| 30 | The danger in being too rigid is that justice will not be done to the flexibility and complexity of human performance . |