Example sentences of "[vb past] do it " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 2 | Steve and I shared the one room upstairs and tried to do it up a bit . |
| 3 | The Americans tried to do it in Panama , what disgusts me is that these are the pictures that sold , the ones done when there was no more opposition . |
| 4 | He tried to do it now , but she dodged back into a corner . |
| 5 | Saying this to me was like holding a red rag to a bull : the more anyone told me not to do a thing , the more I tried to do it . |
| 6 | I desperately tried to do it , but I was pathetic . |
| 7 | First the lawmakers tried to do it . |
| 8 | People would look at me and think , ‘ No , she 's not the type , she would never try to top herself ’ , but I tried to do it when I was in Cookham Wood . |
| 9 | They asked me why I tried to do it — whether I was attention-seeking ! |
| 10 | I can tell you right now that there are plenty of indi I I 'm I 'm going to say this up front , there are plenty of individuals who 've taken the information away and tried to do it themselves . |
| 11 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 12 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 13 | I tried to do it really well because it was my last grade . |
| 14 | He tried to do it at home and that was |
| 15 | Well , if they really tried to do it again and they failed , there 's not much else that we could ask them to do is there ? |
| 16 | I tried doing it with my fingers but |
| 17 | All these sorts of things are going to be the sorts of things that we 'll bring up in discussion , but you wo n't realize what the problems are until you tried doing it . |
| 18 | And er I just lost interest all together and stopped doing it . |
| 19 | And made them a f and they look for their fry every Saturday and I stopped doing it . |
| 20 | Right so if you get to know if you drew do it through the week do n't worry about the pie charts do n't worry about the fractions . |
| 21 | And then production stopped did it ? |
| 22 | So that that just stopped did it in the end . |
| 23 | True , she 'd done it . |
| 24 | They 'd done it in Gaelic to cover up the vulgarity . |
| 25 | ‘ If I 'd done it then , perhaps I would n't have been fit to go to the Olympics and worlds , and I 'd hate to be sitting here now thinking I could have won . |
| 26 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 27 | They 'd done it for Adam and Christopher and they 'd do it for him . |
| 28 | In the old days he would have been amused and asked her how she 'd done it . |
| 29 | ‘ But , in the end , it was more useful to me to get her to think that you 'd done it … . |
| 30 | Suppose she went out into the woods with … him , and they were going to make love … or they 'd done it … and she said ‘ I 'm pregnant , you 're the father , what are you going to do about it ? ’ |