Example sentences of "to do [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not unusual for young ladies to do nothing at all ; unless they occupied themselves with Berlin woolwork or the making of shell boxes , there was practically nothing genteel to do . |
| 2 | They begin to assume that their ageing parents are never satisfied , and may eventually conclude that it might be better to do nothing at all for them . |
| 3 | Conclude : ‘ It is better to waste your old age than to do nothing at all with it . ’ |
| 4 | Nenna might have added to her list of things that men do better than women their ability to do nothing at all in an unhurried manner . |
| 5 | God in heaven , he seemed to do nothing on this job but envy Boxer and his easy role . |
| 6 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 7 | And I thought , well , I 'm gon na have to do summat about this ! |
| 8 | Since our son found maths difficult he had , quite understandably , decided that it was easier to do none at all — and had got away with it for over six weeks . |
| 9 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer , Kenneth Clarke tells the programme how she once asked : ‘ Why do I have to do everything in this Government ? ’ and no-one had the nerve to give her the obvious answer — she did n't have to do everything . |
| 10 | The Liberal Democrats ' defence spokesman , Menzies Campbell , said later that the president 's proposals were a gimmick and ‘ smacked of being seen to do something without serious understanding of its effectiveness ’ . |
| 11 | The ideal love of a man for a woman and of a woman for a man is for them to want to give something to each other , or to want to do something for each other . |
| 12 | She said : ‘ I like to make people laugh and always wanted to be able to do something for elderly and lonely people . ’ |
| 13 | We were very open to a range of ideas from big to little ; the mother of a mentally-handicapped child wrote in wanting to do something for mentally-handicapped children , and she had got an idea about setting it in the production office of a children 's comic . |
| 14 | The Secretary of State is anxious to concentrate on rebates to do something for those who will by hit be the property tax , but the Minister has scorned property taxes and is determined to weight the tax in favour of the better-off . |
| 15 | The second point is that the A C C are , are , I think , the second point is that there was a deputation to the Minister yesterday , so if , in a sense it 's a little late unless it was picked up by Mr yesterday , it may be a little late to do something for this year , er , I mean obviously next year is I think going to be the er , important issue , and the A C C has already circulated all Shire counties er , it 's picked up that this has happened to the majority of counties , although again the south east er , has escaped from that , and it 's asking for the sort of figures we 're debating this morning . |
| 16 | ‘ Are you seriously asking me to do something for twenty dollars difference a night . |
| 17 | Around 18 months ago , Algora was contacted by the organisers of Expo 92 who wanted to do something with virtual reality at Seville , but did n't know what exactly . |
| 18 | Oh well I 've got to do something with that anyway . |
| 19 | Apparently it is still hoping to do something with some of the software it has developed internally . |
| 20 | ‘ All right , I wo n't , but I hope Zelah has n't got it into her head that I 'm to do something about all this nonsense . ’ |
| 21 | If I 'd had control over everything I would have had a full Wales tour in the summer and then we would n't have needed to have the practice games , but as it is we are giving them the advantage and I wanted to try to do something about that . ’ |
| 22 | Because the disaster revealed something about the basic nature of the Soviet system , at a moment when it had at last become possible to do something about that system , the political consequences may prove the most profound of all . |
| 23 | She smiled blankly when he confided darkly that he 'd have to do something about that . |
| 24 | Has he learned how to do something about that ? |
| 25 | We decided it was time to do something about that , so we took him along to the vet . |
| 26 | To ask them to do something about that mess . " |
| 27 | We 'll need to do something about that . |
| 28 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman will ask his constituents to remember that if they want to do something about that matter there is one answer — to buy the best food that there is , and that is British produced . |
| 29 | At the end of the day , the only way to do something about that is to put more men on the streets . |
| 30 | ‘ You know , you really ought to do something about that razor you 've been using ! ’ |