Example sentences of "do [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What did you do to let the thoughts remain or to rid yourself of them ? |
| 32 | If you fail to recognize a game until it 's too late what can you do to reduce the damage and learn from the experience ? |
| 33 | It also remains to be seen what the Halls can do to reduce the club 's debts of £6.5m . |
| 34 | It shows how much we could do to address the threat of climate change if we were really serious about saving energy . " |
| 35 | What can they Do to solve the problems or choose strategies for action ? |
| 36 | It is as much as you can do to read the job advertisements in the Times Educational Supplement , let alone the leader . |
| 37 | Er it 's important to keep that constant twenty four hours a day there 's a danger area when new born babies are actually put into their own rooms , particularly in the winter , if they 're in the room with their , with their parents and the room temperature falls very low , the parent 's likely to notice and get cold themselves which means they 'll pay attention to the baby , if the baby is far end of the house , up the north end where the wind 's blowing , right , er what else can we do to keep the baby warm ? |
| 38 | But then the dark powers rose , and the four Cities fell ; it was the most we could do to save the Treasures . |
| 39 | A favourite mail-out is the 160-page 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth ( 3.5 million copies sold and distributed through a variety of sources ) . |
| 40 | I have read a book called 50 Simple things Kids Could Do To Save The Earth . |
| 41 | ‘ There 's nothing I can do to prolong the girl 's stay here , even if I wanted to . ’ |
| 42 | IBM Corp 's new chief executive is being swamped with gratuitous advice on what he should do to turn the company around , but that coming from Stephen Smith , who has tracked the computer industry for PaineWebber Inc for 11 years , is probably worth more of Gerstner 's attention than most . |
| 43 | Mr Ken Currie of the Energy Technology Support Unit at Harwell will then describe what the rich world could do to mitigate the effects . |
| 44 | What you can do to BEAT THE BURGLARS ! |
| 45 | There was nothing the big , anxious woman could do to investigate the matter further and although she played the beam of the torch on every inch visible to her , she could n't see whatever it was that might have made her daughter scream other than the damp and secret darkness of the place . |
| 46 | ‘ I am not sure there is anything a state can do to change the economics of the airline business , ’ Mr Crandall said . |
| 47 | Then see what you can do to change the circumstances of the situation . |
| 48 | I said w you know what can I do to change the situation ? |
| 49 | Critics might complain of what one of them called " the mysterious and irresponsible manner in which foreign politics are arranged " ; but there was little they could do to change the situation . |
| 50 | The extraordinary factor in such debates is that at the end of them we get the feeling that there is little that we can actually do to alter the course of events . |
| 51 | People have to die at last , and there is nothing that anybody ( even doctors ) can do to alter the fact . |
| 52 | However , for a horse shut in a small yard , or especially a stable , boredom is very distressing as there is little it can do to break the monotony , and it will become anxious . |
| 53 | He added that he could not see ‘ what the Portuguese administration can further do to enlarge the Macanese people 's confidence ’ . |
| 54 | Maybe it was the hypnotic , rhythmic drone of the aircraft engines , or the sheer emotional exhaustion of the past few hours , but there seemed little she could do to suppress the memories she had so resolutely buried during the last five years . |
| 55 | I mean unless we had erm a change of government , say , and we had a women 's ministry where someone was putting a lot of thought into the role of women in our society , and what one could do to improve the position for women , but we have n't got a government that 's thinking in those kinds of ways . |
| 56 | When was the last time , without duress or obligation , that a club chairman asked his directors : ‘ What can we do to improve the lot of our fans ? ’ |
| 57 | Is there anything I mean I think I know the answer to the question , but is there anything we can do to improve the language that 's uttered in our church ? |
| 58 | Trichologist Glenn Lyons from the Philip Kingsley Trichological Clinic will join Charles to talk about specific hair and scalp problems , and what you can do to improve the health of your hair . |
| 59 | What , then , can practitioners do to improve the situation ? |
| 60 | The Charter , like most political manifesto , threw vitriol on the current state of affairs in Trinidad , political as well as social , and then went on to describe much that they would do to improve the situation ; but then , to paraphrase Andy Rice-Davies — they would would n't they ? |