Example sentences of "[verb] do it " in BNC.

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1 Oh we used to work er f er six days a week , er all day Saturdays erm eight to eight and er eight till eight at n at er eight till seven at night or er or eight till eight at erm most shifts was early , they used to have a a an hour er an hour break of a dinner time er sometimes they only used to have half an hour at night because , I mean well once you 've got er y y you was there , once you get you shift done it was no good sitting there doing for an hour and er it , it varies on what production what was wanted and how far advanced you was or how far behind you was , you know , but er the average hours was as I say was ten hours a shift that was working shift , you worked ten hours and then a break in between , ten minutes , half an hour
2 When we want do it Independently ,
3 My only comment is that the Quarterly has done it again .
4 THE Black Sumatra has done it again .
5 Or perhaps I should say , ‘ Another of the Black Sumatras has done it ’ — for our three sooty chickens of this exotic breed are indistinguishable from one another , and we can not be sure which of them has excelled itself .
6 And he has done it largely with and for local schoolchildren : ‘ The children are my ears and my eyes and my workforce . ’
7 It has done it the old-fashioned way , with teamwork , better quality and new models that appeal to its customers .
8 Thus Terence Davies is to be congratulated for having ‘ wrenched high art from the lower depths of his deprived Liverpool childhood ’ ( The Mail on Sunday , 16 October 1988 ) , which is a ‘ recreation devoutly to be wished ’ and not least because ‘ he has done it without rancour ’ ( how typically British ) .
9 Other musicians may have enjoyed greater financial reward playing this music , but nobody has done it better or with greater flexibility .
10 This was so successful he has done it every year since , but with a different group of children .
11 A good abstract painting is an experiment I do n't have to conduct because someone has done it for me .
12 I did want to , once , yet … now that someone else has done it , I feel nothing but pity .
13 She has done it much better , and there was such a quantity of it here ; I dreaded the child coming in , as much as others must have done , but for different reasons .
14 The great man has done it again .
15 Madonna has done it , followed by Isabella Adjani and comedienne Sandra Bernhardt .
16 Of course , the truth about how he has done it will probably only emerge in a ghosted autobiography that will cost some newspaper a king 's ransom .
17 A good abstract painting is an experiment I do n't have to conduct because someone has done it for me .
18 She has done it . ’
19 And he has done it in his usual champagne style , taking sunshine trips to Arizona , Bermuda and Italy .
20 After all the years of hard work and sacrifice Nigel has done it .
21 And now Shanice has done it again .
22 Fashanu himself had thoughts on this : ‘ If you can relate yourself to somebody , it 's a big spur to you , ‘ cause , if someone else has done it , you can always follow him .
23 One : decide what the playwright was trying to do and pronounce how well he has done it .
24 Thus Lord Bridge 's guiding principle could properly be expanded to read ‘ one looks to see what the taxpayer has done to earn the profit in question and where he has done it . ’
25 If a member of a committee receives a letter asking him to carry out some job for the committee between meetings , he must feed back the information that he will do this and , when he has done it , the information that he has done it .
26 If a member of a committee receives a letter asking him to carry out some job for the committee between meetings , he must feed back the information that he will do this and , when he has done it , the information that he has done it .
27 He has done it again . ’
28 There were not the multitude of motorcars about in those days , as there are now , but that was one of the firms that was trying to make it , and has done it , like that .
29 Boswell hit back : ‘ I am diverted with you , sir , ’ and Johnson laid him low : ‘ Doing such a thing makes one lose confidence in him who has done it , as one can not tell what he may do next . ’
30 After all , the demonstration was not merely something to watch , it was also meant to be demonstrative evidence , ‘ demonstrating ’ as the geometer demonstrates his theorem and puts QED when he has done it .
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