Example sentences of "do [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him about Hirondelle and how Deacon Billingsley had lied about the yacht 's fate , and I confessed that though there was nothing I could do about a corrupt policeman , nor about what I strongly suspected had been the murder of a yacht 's crew , I was still curious about the island . |
| 2 | If this guillotine motion goes through , what do I do about the thousand or so letters that I have downstairs ? |
| 3 | There 's nothing you can do about the latter , and as for the former you 'll simply have to stop worrying . |
| 4 | There is little one can do about the former . |
| 5 | There was nothing United could do about the second ; a great piece of football skill from Alan McLoughlin . |
| 6 | ‘ There was very little he could do about the horrendous injuries Cooper suffered in his two fights against Ali , but he saved him on countless other occasions with his quick , methodical work . ’ |
| 7 | What on earth will the Government do about the irresponsible and scandalous actions of Commissioner Millan who is withholding money , to which we are legally entitled , on the basis of a bogus bureaucratic point ? |
| 8 | The message of our experts is that there IS something you can do about the unsightly , and sometimes painful , form of fat known as cellulite . |
| 9 | Once in the flat , with Brian having departed promising to see what he could do about an early appointment with Dr Shalcross , she tried to tell herself that she was feeling better , that this break was all she needed , that coming to London was the answer to any temporary difficulty . |
| 10 | ‘ What did you do during the Great Criminal 's reign ? ’ |
| 11 | The things you 'll do for a cheap holiday ! |
| 12 | This booklet tells you what you need to know and do for a healthy pregnancy , and the delivery of a healthy baby . |
| 13 | I 'm interested to see what it 's gon na do for a hot wax if you see what I mean ? |
| 14 | After staring at the two chaps with ‘ you 'll do for a light snack ’ eyes , the lion started to wander towards them . |
| 15 | But it would do for a comic sketch — ‘ |
| 16 | Well I thought if I get one this size , that will do for a few weeks rather than take some of them home and mess about better than there 's a big packet like a big one at home I 've just opened this morning so it 's |
| 17 | And then , finally , look at what Equity can do for the successful plaintiff — the ‘ remedy ’ , the ‘ relief ’ which it can give him . |
| 18 | When they had been in the chemist 's buying shampoo , Mr Kennedy had asked what he could do for the two young ladies and they had been pleased . |
| 19 | Do n't wait for it Appleton if you want to save your insipid self from being punctured or badly handled all you can Do for the Better of our ESTEEMED BURMA is GET OUT ! |
| 20 | The great Labour party — which brought together militants , because it thought that they knew what they could do for the working people of this country — is scornfully setting democracy aside . |
| 21 | What does this legislation do for the low paid in Britain ? |
| 22 | ‘ Well , of course , anything I can do for the poor girl — ’ she began . |
| 23 | As Fielding led me back to our table I made a powerfully worded verbal pass at a salacious waitress , who appeared to be all for it but then came down with some deep sorrow in the kitchen , and when I burst through the double-doors to console her two men in sweat-grey T-shirts assured me there was nothing I could do for the poor child . |
| 24 | What would that do for the living conditions of the poor ? |
| 25 | Erm what we 're gon na do for the second part of the morning is to look , if you like at the tourism application for the determinants of demand . |
| 26 | But this would never do for the gilded 1960s radicals . |
| 27 | Amdahl says its own effort will do for the top-end of the Unix market what Novell Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc are doing for low-end and desktop Unix . |
| 28 | Amdahl hopes its part of the exercise will do for the top-end of the Unix market what Novell Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc are doing for low-end and desktop Unix . |
| 29 | What do these figures do for the bottom line ? |
| 30 | How much this will do for the hard hit Darlington to Hartlepool commuter is anyone 's guess . |