Example sentences of "[vb base] do to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if corporation executives paid as much attention to programme budgets as they appear to do to their own tax returns , viewers would get better value for their licence money . |
| 2 | There are things people want to do to you . |
| 3 | I tell you , after a long life of many escapes , many dramas which might have been tragedies , what I want and would value most is to be free to choose as much of my life as is given to me — to live it by my own lights , Mary , to do , insofar as God wills it , what I want to do to the very hilt and limit . ’ |
| 4 | All they seem to do to me is drink coffee ! |
| 5 | You complain that your marriage is n't a partnership , yet when you are not tearing a strip off him ( as mothers tend to do to sons ) or winding him up ( as mates do ) you are treating him like a no-talent support act . |
| 6 | I think I could probably send a return on Tuesday erm but I 'd rather wait because if I can send stuff properly done rather than you know done to the latest or or the the pre-latest system then I will . |
| 7 | We need to realize what we 've done to other species . |
| 8 | From then on I began to interpret each nocturnal sound as a footstep or as a bolt sliding back , and in the misery of the night I turned round and round in bed , my nightdress winding itself tighter and tighter about me , while a little voice inside me complained , ‘ I tried to do right , and now look what you 've done to me . |
| 9 | My Dad used to say , ‘ Now look what you 've done to your mother , ’ and if I answered back , he would start pelting things at me — plates , cups , his dinner , the carving knife , and once a picture of Jesus floating up to heaven with a lamb tucked under each arm . |
| 10 | And aye , I know what I 've done to her . |
| 11 | ‘ Bully , ’ said Angela , speaking very earnestly to the alsatian , ‘ here 's your chance to make up for the naughty things you 've done to me . |
| 12 | The great voice which calls us all has appointed that one card will remain blank and another shall be full , and not for any good or well they 've done to him . |
| 13 | But the best-laid schemes of mankind and its security police can be blown aside in the squeeze of the assassin 's trigger , sending one to heaven and one to hell and not for any good or ill they 've done to him . |
| 14 | Now ye 'll do five years ’ hard for what ye 've done to Luke ! ’ |
| 15 | ’ I says , ‘ Tell the sergeant what you 've done to me . |
| 16 | What they 've done to us is immoral . ’ |
| 17 | Like they 've done to Elizabeth Taylor or whoever . |
| 18 | A friend of Soon-Yi said : ‘ Mia would wake her daughter in the middle of the night and scream at her : ‘ Look what you 've done to me — how could this happen ? ’ ' |
| 19 | I 'll never forgive you for what you 've done to me . ’ |
| 20 | Let's see how much damage they 've done to you . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But look what you 've done to me . ’ |
| 22 | Let's have a look in and see what you 've done to the poor old thing . |
| 23 | Let's have a look and see what they 've done to you . |
| 24 | And then do what you 've done to me . |
| 25 | ‘ If he went now he would see all his previous life here as a waste of time , and in a way he is wreaking vengeance on his mother by being embittered and something of a failure — saying , look what you 've done to me . ’ |
| 26 | and see what you 've done to the poor thing . |
| 27 | Look what they 've done to Delroy , he 's pretty intelligent , yet they keep him down , no wonder he causes trouble . |
| 28 | they 've done to it . |
| 29 | I 'm damn near in tears on account of what I 've done to the guy . |
| 30 | What they 've done to the streets you used to know so well ? ’ |