Example sentences of "do [indef pn] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But signs of a pick-up will do nothing soon to cut unemployment , now at the top of the economic agenda . |
| 2 | All this thinking and doodling will have done nothing physically to change the view outside the window , but it is a vital part of the gardening process . |
| 3 | Yes it is , it 's , it , it will be a bit frightening but like , I 've , I 've waited this long you know , so er anything they 're throwing up at me wo n't , wo n't be wo n't daunt me in any way because I 've been , like I went to a charity shield this season with Liverpool and they were playing Manchester United , there were sixty thousand there , and er I 'd have done anything just to get on there . |
| 4 | No one but the Queen herself , she had decided , could do anything now to help her save her crumbling marriage . |
| 5 | Would you like to do something locally to make a visible improvement ? |
| 6 | In some respects , we still have to do something right to get a point against West Ham . |
| 7 | This could take the form of compensating the victim of the offence or doing something else to assist the victim . |
| 8 | And er they would maybe er devise or make or r find a piece of suitable wood or something to scratch in the garden or in the sand or on a piece of nice soft soil , to make furrows and er imitate maybe what their Dad was doing out in the field and er they had no concept of doing anything else to play really , it was just pretending they were pretending they were grown up and working . |
| 9 | Lack of childcare facilities not only blocks a job , even if there were one , it prevents single parents doing anything else to prepare themselves for a changing job market . |
| 10 | None of this is to ignore Thompson 's evidence that some among the older Radicals saw that the Bill did nothing immediately to secure political democracy . |
| 11 | While the passing of time did nothing to lessen the Emperor 's appetites , it apparently did nothing either to improve his performance . |
| 12 | So in other words , we 're saying if they 're off sick , erm , they decide to go out and , you know , do something else to earn some money , then they would n't be able to claim under their policy . |
| 13 | The print itself is featureless and does nothing visually to capture the attention or involve the emotions . |