Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] do with " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the reports I had done to do with my mental state have all said that I 'm not crazy , and yet I was diagnosed as a psychopath and bunged in Broadmoor . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , they were behind schedule and I had to make do with a curry-house scene . |
| 3 | But I had not voluntarily given up my ‘ lecturing ’ ; my institute had closed on account of the Cyprus situation , and I had to make do with inadequate ‘ private means ’ , even ‘ touching capital ’ , which would have deeply shocked Ivy . |
| 4 | But it was her last film and after that I had to make do with Jean Simmons in Desirée . |
| 5 | I had to make do with stewing the old tea leaves . |
| 6 | In the rue Victorie , lacking a refriger-ator , I had to make do with the window-sill and milk-and butter-coolers . |
| 7 | I just liked the sound of being a musician but , for a while , I had to make do with being a fireman . |
| 8 | The cops got coffee and cigarettes and sandwiches , but I had to make do with inhaling their used smoke . |
| 9 | and that 'll enable me to get on doing what I 've got to do with spitfire and everything , spit spitfire 's fine , I 'll get that in |
| 10 | ‘ The spirits respect me ; I have had to do with the dead for a long time . ’ |
| 11 | She has to make do with what she 's got … that 's if she 's a nice girl , of course . |
| 12 | She had an almost Germanic regard for order , and set about repairing the house , the stables , the outbuildings and conservatory with the willing and cheerful help of a small , dedicated band of local people , with whom she could relax and be herself , without putting up defences as she 'd had to do with the false Pyglings . |
| 13 | ‘ You do n't want to marry me — ’ his hot mouth was less than an inch above her face as she stared resolutely at his dark red silk tie ‘ — but there 's something else you do want to do with me . ’ |
| 14 | And this is what you 've got to do with most things that you do . |
| 15 | The first thing you 've got to do with your subordinate , is to tell them what their job is . |
| 16 | right you know what you 've got to do with that lot ? |
| 17 | Now have a look at it and see what you 've got to do with that , got to go one , two , three , four |
| 18 | Unfortunately , that was finished now and she had to make do with what was to hand , ‘ Johnnie Walker ’ , which was very nice indeed thank you . |
| 19 | The literal world which she inhabited was so plainly hostile that she seized with ardour upon any references to any other mode of being ; she came across few direct ones , in that suburban and industrial spot , so she had to make do with the oblique . |
| 20 | Some communities provided a communal hot kosher meal at noon for Jewish children , who had to make do with cold vegetables and bread for breakfast and dinner . |
| 21 | Yes I 've seen hay spoilt but you had to make do with it . |
| 22 | So what you need to have done with this is to have all the puss got out . |
| 23 | I think this is what we 've got to do with them at school . |
| 24 | In 1981 , when I left , there was no surgical alcohol available and we had to make do with boiled water . |
| 25 | Fuel was difficult to come by after we left the forest , and when we reached the plains that stretched to the Webi Shebeli we had to make do with dry cattle dung . |
| 26 | We had to make do with a water-taxi . ’ |
| 27 | Once a week bath night , now we do all these dirty jobs , because next door she had her own coal Lashmere cooking you see , and we had to make do with wood , and that entails cutting it ourselves , so our weekend , we worked Saturday mornings ; Sunday used to the day we had to do all the cottage work . |
| 28 | Yes , I think is probably so and I think this is what we have got to do with girls . |
| 29 | The majority of windsurfers , though , do not enjoy the perfect conditions that are needed to perform such spectacular manoeuvres and we have to make do with much smaller and fewer well-shaped waves . |
| 30 | Instead we have to make do with such things as the Philips reissue of a 1982 Shostakovich Eighth , recorded at the wrong pitch ( 6/89 ) , and a five-disc Olympia compilation whose artistic quality is decidedly mixed ( 8/88 ) . |