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Example sentences of "do [indef pn] at " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Unfortunately I could do nothing at all .
2	This answer would be fully acceptable only if the speaker is fully aware of his situation and can do nothing at present to ease it .
3	Felipe could do nothing at all .
4	Four , you could do nothing at all and leave any course of action to the solicitors comfortable then you should be using their best endeavours to obtain the licence .
5	things like this , but regards to the fact that when , when something is sold to somebody right , erm , and then a , and , and the person who 's selling it receives the money , I mean the person the police ca n't do nothing at all about it unless fraud comes into it
6	Which reminded her that they had done nothing at all about the shooting .
7	Wordsworth 's first publications , An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches , appeared in 1793 ; the aim was to bring his name before the public as he felt he had done nothing at university — and , of course , the faint hope of making money .
8	I did n't want to tell her I 'd done nothing at all so I told a sort of white lie — said I was halfway through the first draft .
9	Unless you offer positive alternatives you do more harm than if you had done nothing at all .
10	Therefore it is nonsense for the Opposition to claim that we have done nothing at all about the problems of retraining .
11	Done nothing at all in their house , but since we 've been here in doing this and that , every things been changed now in it ?
12	If a public sector organisation says that it will do something at a certain time , the customer wants that to happen .
13	If we can get that , then five or six years down the track we might be producing players who can do something at world level . ’
14	and then that will take us for a period of about probably three months cos we 're saying we 'll done one at least every six weeks .
15	You see when you first start , you 've only got three appointments anyway , so you can do one at ten o'clock and one at four ca n't you ?
16	Well you know you could do one at the slip
17	You can not do everything at the same time .
18	If you can not do everything at once , or want to start making staged improvements , either concentrate on your first priorities ( leaving space for the next stages ) or your worst problems-depending on whether you are planning a first-time kitchen or updating an existing one .
19	‘ What a day it 's been and we have n't really done anything at all .
20	Well I have n't done anything at the moment because I di I did n't think it was worth it actually .
21	Well I have n't done anything at the moment because I did n't I did n't think it was worth it actually .
22	A lot of students go through the system and do n't do anything at all with their training .
23	Living too far away from things : a ) does n't do anything at all , b ) extends the nose so much that it sags and closes down , c ) allows the nose to examine other things which are too close and therefore blunts it again .
24	‘ Because here I feel I can do anything at all .
25	Some do n't do anything at all , they 're just there in the , in the name alone and if anything does happen they 'll into action .
26	He so concentrated on his dialogue — I never had to reshoot a scene because Kenny fluffed a line — that he could n't do anything at the same time as he was talking . ’
27	So we , we have three categories , we do n't do anything at all , we do something fairly menial like washing away petrol or disconnecting batteries , or we rescue people .
28	I can get , you see Mark will Mark will do anything at the moment cos he 's quite interested in me .
29	It was not unusual for young ladies to do nothing at all ; unless they occupied themselves with Berlin woolwork or the making of shell boxes , there was practically nothing genteel to do .
30	They begin to assume that their ageing parents are never satisfied , and may eventually conclude that it might be better to do nothing at all for them .