Example sentences of "do [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything that you can do to support the D E C appeal for Africa will be more than welcome . |
| 2 | There was little he could do to combat the hostility of the media , but after the frustrations of his first term he decided to face up to the bureaucracy and the legislature . |
| 3 | Please could you tell me what I should do to treat the problem ? |
| 4 | Now what more can he do to pass the evening pleasantly , and entertain his guests ? |
| 5 | It is also considering what it can do to meet the demand for more information by such measures as explanatory videos , evening classes or workplace clinics . |
| 6 | She attempted to restore some order to her tousled hair with her fingers , then stroked on a little blusher to counteract at least a little of her pallor ; but there was little she could do to repair the ravages of the night , and finally she turned away with a heavy sigh . |
| 7 | Finally back at base , it 's amazing what a five-star hotel can do to revive the spirits . |
| 8 | What would you do to find the distance ? |
| 9 | Hill climbing is so called because it is like what one would do to find the top of a hill in a Scottish mist : Keep going up . |
| 10 | I wondered whether the fact that the buildings had collapsed , were no longer the ordered haven of childhood , helped him to understand that whatever he might do to reinstate the fabric of the place , he would not succeed in re-creating the past . |
| 11 | What can RE do to encourage the imagination necessary for understanding religion ? |
| 12 | What would you do to reverse the direction of the ammeter needles first movement , B ? |
| 13 | Unequivocal or not , it would n't do to open the door in the altogether — though with any luck , that would be the next step … |
| 14 | But we do n't believe that those sort of problems can be solved centrally , we believe that local communities can look at their own areas and see what they can do to lessen the problem . |
| 15 | So let's have a look at what you can do to remedy the situation . |
| 16 | If we accept that , so far as most people are concerned , it is the left brain which is more highly developed , what can we do to enhance the ability of the right brain and to try and become more creative ? |
| 17 | It must have begun to seem that there was nothing the British film producer could do to challenge the place of American films on the nation 's screens . |
| 18 | It produces a good number of peaches every August but the greenhouse is in desperate need of replacement and she does n't have to , want to have to put another one in that position so is there anything cheap , she says , that she could do to help the tree to survive and fruit in a large open garden in Preston in Lancashire without the greenhouse , Walter ? |
| 19 | So what can the law do to help the protection of the City of London and those who work there ? |
| 20 | So what can the nurse do to help the patient with the AL of communicating ? |
| 21 | The carer is involved in the routine : you will watch the therapist at first , and then learn how much you can do to help the learning process at any stage . |
| 22 | Another said , ‘ The way I look at it , it 's too late now ; there 's nothing can be done which can put the clock back ; let's see what we can do to help the victim ’ ( FN 6/11/87 , p. 35 ) . |
| 23 | Surely there was something he could do to alleviate the suffering of this creature ? |
| 24 | They were so far away from me , and there was nothing that they could do to alleviate the hardship of Legion life , so it appeared unnecessary to burden them with minor worries about bullying and violence . |
| 25 | ‘ I believe we are at the stage now where the fears and uncertainty in the community are such that no one can any longer pass by on the other side , and there is something which everybody can do to alleviate the problem . ’ |
| 26 | Indeed at times it has seemed difficult to see what the newcomers could do to alleviate the resentments they have occasionally caused . |
| 27 | The main problem remains Hillary Clinton , and what she might do to clobber the prices charged by drug companies in the USA , the world 's largest market . |
| 28 | And what must we do to neutralise the opposition ? |
| 29 | It seemed there was nothing he could do to persuade the child to cease her disobedience , nothing he could say which would frighten her sufficiently for her to come to her senses . |
| 30 | I used to ask what I should do to fill the day and he 'd simply say go to the park and knit . |