Example sentences of "do [indef pn] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The veteran foreign minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , has done nothing to allay this idea , bluntly denying the debt his country owes to the west by declaring , ‘ There is not a capitalist Germany and a communist Germany , there is only one German nation ’ . |
| 2 | I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign . |
| 3 | But she has done nothing to deserve this . ’ |
| 4 | She 's done nothing to deserve this . ’ |
| 5 | When one passes such messages back to one 's constituents , they say , ’ Who will do something to stop this nuisance , which is causing enormous problems not only to me but to the whole area ? ’ |
| 6 | The exercise would tire him — that always helped : he would seek out Joanna once more and that , too , would do something to unlock this pain of want which would rise up in him from nowhere , and beat against the walls of his mind until he thought he would never be able to bear it . |
| 7 | You can do something to bring this about . |
| 8 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 9 | That made me feel I must have done something to deserve this . |
| 10 | Many also feel responsible because they assume that they must have done something to bring this man down . |
| 11 | A spokesman for Telecom Eireann said : ‘ The law does not provide that we can do anything to stop this . |
| 12 | Erm he makes a distinction between poor peasants , some being utterly destitute and some just being less destitute but er basically as er seventy percent of the population erm they 're the main group that 's pushing revolution forward and s so therefore I mean it 's this group that the Communist Party must n't alienate , you know , they mu must n't do anything to harm this group , associations the Communist Party must n't attack erm the associations . |
| 13 | It happened that one of the doctors practised hypnosis , and the sister of the ward concerned approached him and asked him if he could do anything to calm this patient who was disrupting the ward routine and upsetting the nurses . |
| 14 | The question is : can translators do anything to minimize this skewing ? |
| 15 | I ca n't see it though because you see I do n't do anything like this at all |
| 16 | Democratic party chairman Ron Brown added : ‘ George Bush has already said he would do anything to win this election . |
| 17 | ‘ We have to do everything to stop this from recurring . ’ |
| 18 | This means that for the first time doctors may be able to tell if an infected person who feels well is in danger of becoming ill , so that they can try to do something to prevent this . |
| 19 | I had to do something to start this cow 's insides functioning because I did not like the look of her today . |
| 20 | This legislation , far from doing anything to alleviate this , further compounds it by enshrining it in legislation . |
| 21 | He liked Donald a great deal ; and the prospect of the man 's imminent death did nothing to dispel this feeling , since he was the person directly responsible for this state of affairs . |
| 22 | Studies carried out in Hull , did nothing to confirm this prediction . |
| 23 | The Pope 's visit to Central America in March 1983 did nothing to alter this situation . |
| 24 | Many people get it into their minds that it is a serious condition and restrictions on sexual activity , the forbidding of alcohol , and prolonged treatment do nothing to dispel this mistaken belief . |
| 25 | The soloists in the Concerto ( Derek Han [ piano ] and John Henes [ trumpet ] ) play their parts well enough , but do nothing to make this rather lack-lustre disc into anything out of the ordinary . |
| 26 | Did someone say this on here ? ? ? |
| 27 | Let's have a look at number five If she did something like this how much has she got to start to give . |
| 28 | Did something like this happen before ? ’ |
| 29 | As time went on , the slow growth of Europe 's wealth , and the even slower improvement of its communications , did something to reduce this sort of inconvenience , expense and even physical danger . |
| 30 | No we do one like this , in this colour , Pyrex but a big one . |