Example sentences of "[verb] do [pers pn] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , yes , when Paddy tried to do ours in the flat need to use small screw drivers to make the , the . |
| 2 | She had thought to do it in a civilised fashion , not confront him with her knowledge of what he had written about her , but he was persistent ; he could see his prize and her dollars slipping away . |
| 3 | I intend to do it in a proper English accent ( You can do it ) . |
| 4 | He began doing them in the earliest days of his career down on Coenties Slip in the late Fifties ( where the drawing classes held in Fred Mitchell 's loft became legendary ) and has kept steadily at them ever since . |
| 5 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ She would have done it in a preordained way , of course , ’ mused Henry . |
| 7 | ‘ We also know that if Vechey committed suicide he must have done it in the early hours , just before dawn . |
| 8 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 9 | You can do it , you do n't have to do it in a great long line , you can do it in a sort of cube or something . |
| 10 | Afghans have always killed each other in a small way , and started to do it in a big way only when foreign armies , money and weapons became involved . |
| 11 | They may not have a reason to prefer one way of going about things to another , but the fact that they chose to do it in a particular way gives them a reason to prefer that way from now on . |
| 12 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |
| 13 | Almost all of the higher earners and men with 10 or more partners have had oral sex with a woman , and it 's the men with a regular relationship and someone else on the side who are most likely to have done it in the past year . |
| 14 | Mum , look what I 've done Grumpy on done him , I 've done him in the right hat you see |
| 15 | The sleight of hand had not been performed to show off ; he had done it in a matter-of-fact way , as though it were no more unusual than scratching his ear . |
| 16 | ‘ Our children had to do it in the Cultural Revolutiion ten years later . |
| 17 | and if you wan na do something slightly different then do it in a role play scenario with a manager or a senior adviser and er get their feedback accordingly but I 'd be te I would n't be tempted to do it in the real world . |
| 18 | Kangaroos have the same need to move rapidly , but they have done it in a different way . |
| 19 | But you see doing them in the isolated spot |