Example sentences of "do [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This they can do through a stockbroker , who will sell them via the stock market to people who want to buy such bonds . |
| 2 | One of my greatest frustrations is having to tell my electors , in correspondence and personally , that there is nothing I can do about a proposal because a decision has already been taken somewhere else — albeit by ministers , one of whom is a Member of the House — that there is nothing that anyone can do because the decision has been taken outside these shores , so there is no point in writing to me . |
| 3 | And what can the cure-seekers do about a disease which is so difficult to understand ? |
| 4 | There was nothing Belinda could do about the way she felt . |
| 5 | By contrast , the Labour party has been silent about new technology , preferring to mutter about unemployment without putting forward detailed proposals as to what it would do about the problem beyond throwing public money at the dole queues . |
| 6 | What can we do about the problem ? |
| 7 | James nodded to him as though for confirmation and then said loudly , ‘ Let us go to the Castle — ’ He became aware that the further reaches of the crowd were out of hearing and shouted at the top of his voice , ‘ Let us go — along to the Castle — and let us see — what John Menzies — will do about the Act ! ’ |
| 8 | And that erm led to a lot of people coming down to the probation office , asking , you know , what if anything they could do about the noise up there . |
| 9 | What shall I do about the stuff that I have n't done ? |
| 10 | Auntie Lou said she could sew a piece of material on the bottom to lengthen the skirt but there was nothing she could do about the top and Carrie cried a little , privately , not because the dress was no use but because her mother should have guessed how much she had grown . |
| 11 | What do I do about the money ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ What 'll we do about the tape ? ’ asked Camille . |
| 13 | The question is not what can we do about the greenhouse effect , but why do n't we do anything ? |
| 14 | What can you expect is a certain amount of resentment or sour grapes between October 1–4 and , frustrating as it may be , all you can really do about the situation is put up and shut up in the certain knowledge that you will gain your freedom , however long it takes . |
| 15 | Since there had been clearly nothing she could do about the situation , Laura had been forced to buckle down and do what she could to keep the twins happy . |
| 16 | There was little he could do about the image . |
| 17 | Later in the day , a clam , dark brown Sunsail mechanic elbowed his way through the crowd of friendly Turks on the quay to see what he could do about the fuel line . |
| 18 | Asked last year what he would do about the loss of his top stars , Grigorovich said defiantly : ‘ If the stars leave we will bring up another generation , and when they go , we will bring up another . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ There was nothing I could do about the accident . |
| 20 | At the beginning of Lent , Miss White approached me to see what she should do about the appeal |
| 21 | WHAT should Britain do about an examination attacked by the country 's employers ' organisation , by the heads of four-fifths of its secondary schools , by its university vice-chancellors and even by the Prince of Wales ? |
| 22 | What kinds of things do you do during the day ? |
| 23 | You 've got your job to do , your job is — you can define in several different ways , and no doubt you will do during the course of the morning , tomorrow , in the afternoon and tomorrow , but you need to understand what the media is all about . |
| 24 | I felt very nervous about what she might do during the ceremony ! |
| 25 | W w w what did you actually do during the war ? went away ? |
| 26 | She tried to find a moment to squeeze in a bit of rest at the sauna , something she could not do during the week ; in the late afternoon , she would always find herself with a vacuum cleaner and duster , because the cleaning woman who came on Fridays was becoming more and more careless . |
| 27 | but it 's it 's not , just looks and it will do for a while . |
| 28 | In a piece she wrote in 1913 , Ada Nield Chew constructed an imaginary discussion between a Cockney and a Lancashire couple on women 's work and the vote , in which the London husband says : ‘ It would n't do for a man in my position to have a wife going out to work . |
| 29 | It 's not a question of what a company can do for a day centre , or what an environmental group can do for a business , it 's a question what we can all do together , for the community . |
| 30 | ‘ What can I do for a child ? ’ |