Example sentences of "do [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Completer finisher well if you want something done give it to the completer finisher . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend the Member for Norwich , North ( Mr. Thompson ) is grateful for what has been done to help him with the preservation of his local Anglian Regiment . |
| 3 | However , there is only so much you can do to protect yourself against the whims of the Almighty . |
| 4 | For pupils of high ability , too much of the curriculum was often taken up with preparation for exams , and too little done to stretch them in the earlier years . |
| 5 | But the second after the bottle shattered , the horror of what she had done hit her with the shock of a faceful of freezing water . |
| 6 | Chris took the chair and I went through the list of things that needed to be done to get us off the ground : a bank account , an address and telephone number somewhere , an eye-catching logo . |
| 7 | What can I do to get you off the phone ? ’ |
| 8 | The speaker in the afternoon was Sue Beardon , of Voluntary Action-Leeds , and she helped delegates understand what they must do to prepare themselves for the new ways of working . |
| 9 | What would you be looking for us to do to help you as the candidate if you win ? |
| 10 | Anwar would find him something else to do to get him in the grocery mood . |
| 11 | For example , it could well have been that families of cave dwellers came to realise that it was possible that they could agree to respect the privacy and boundaries of their respective homes , and by so doing relieve themselves of the eternal vigilance likely to be necessary in the absence of such agreement . |
| 12 | If in past decades we waited for the telegram to arrive , it did not lessen the shock , but it did prepare us for the event . |
| 13 | For one thing , I suppose I do regard it as the moment in my career when I truly came of age as a butler . |
| 14 | I mean I think there 's the same problem with children in a sense , I mean , you you talking about confronting them with the realities of the world and I suppose I perhaps if we if we did expose ourselves to the erm to the true meaning of what 's going on in the world , we could n't handle it psychologically without stopping it , without doing something about it . |
| 15 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |
| 16 | Leaves do orientate themselves toward the light , so turn the pots regularly . |
| 17 | He never did make it to the Academie , but being made international president of PEN , following Francis King , mattered a lot to him . |
| 18 | I did make it to the LSE eventually and , a dozen love affairs and three broken engagements later , into marriage . |
| 19 | Bernier , in his role as imperial surgeon , did make it into the zenana complex , but was not much the wiser afterwards : |
| 20 | Chairman I think this is probably the first time in this council chamber in twenty years that er I will probably have spoken on er social services issues er and I speak from an entirely private capacity and any information that er that comes my way is from what I might call informed members of the public erm , people who I come into contact with and from my own experiences as a ward councillor and from as we all do from time to time , my own family experience , my own domestic experiences and I do know something about the problems which are associated with the the care of elderly people er although I do n't have that problem now erm things have taken their course . |
| 21 | In the second appeal , the tape clearly did demonstrate something about the gruffness and depth of the accused 's voice which could not have been gleaned from the transcript . |
| 22 | I really did enjoy myself in the Tests last summer and know I can reproduce that form again . ’ |
| 23 | As their only match preparation for the Test , it was patently inadequate but it did alert them to the vast difference between the cricketing conditions and environment in the Caribbean and those in Australia and New Zealand where they had performed so impressively in gaining the semi-finals of the World Cup . |
| 24 | So erm anyway they they they did do it in the end . |
| 25 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 26 | However , if we worshipped a goddess who lived on Snowdon and adored strawberries , then non-practical , noneconomic ideas might dictate that we did grow them on the mountain top . |
| 27 | She hissed , ‘ Do do something about the Taylors and old Mrs Phipson . |
| 28 | I know I did seen it on the T V , different places , but I , I did n't know anything about here . |
| 29 | It did n't make a great occasion for me , though I think the backstage tension did contribute something to the success of the production . |
| 30 | But I really did like it at the end when he got back with his mother and the rest of the family and they had a lovely Christmas with hundreds of presents . |