do with
Britishverb
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to find useful; benefit from
she could do with a night's sleep
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to be involved in or connected with
his illness has a lot to do with his failing the exam
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concerning; related to
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to put or place
what did you do with my coat?
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to handle or treat
what are we going to do with these hooligans?
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to fill one's time usefully
she didn't know what to do with herself when term ended
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Example Sentences
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Carvalho has said he had nothing to do with that contract.
From Los Angeles Times
CEO Lynn Nicholls said: "People get into situations where cats breed, they then don't know what to do with them, they can't look after them all and when they move a lot of the time they do leave them behind."
From BBC
What was clear was that across a pretty broad range of character types, Storrie held his own and brought some smoldering looks and playfulness that the show, for the most part, didn’t know what to do with.
From Los Angeles Times
"The Border Patrol officers had no protocol of what to do with the disabled man who doesn't speak English, who is confused and lost," he said.
From BBC
Whatever the case, “Adult/Child’s” mothballing led to another withdrawal by Wilson, who had far less to do with the band’s next few records and who eventually turned to a solo career.
From Los Angeles Times
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