Example sentences of "[verb] do this [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Constance has done this on the rebound , ’ Nora continued . |
| 2 | Twenty-eight percent were putting off-farm income into the farm at the time of the interview whilst a further 28% said they would consider doing this in the future . |
| 3 | I would n't have missed doing this for the world , but I would n't sell up for another . |
| 4 | ‘ I would n't have missed doing this for the world , but I would n't sell up for another . |
| 5 | just imagine doing this in the weather that we had , God , up to here , wind and rain |
| 6 | They have been helped to do this by the introduction of so-called ‘ call-off ’ contracts set up by Purchasing — which is part of AEA Estates — to enable them to place orders . |
| 7 | Do you want to do this in the tutorial ? |
| 8 | When he sought to do this from the pulpit of St Paul 's on 5 November 1709 ( the anniversary of the gunpowder treason plot , when preachers usually reserved their invective for Catholics ) , and combined it with a defence of the doctrines of passive-obedience and non-resistance , the Whig ministry of the day decided to use the opportunity to try to discredit the Church in Danger platform . |
| 9 | Unrealised by himself , he has in fact been striving to do this since the dawn of civilisation . |
| 10 | We could have done this without the Support Force but it would have taken longer to do . ’ |
| 11 | Would they have done this in the knowledge that they were guilty ? |
| 12 | It decided to do this through the dock company , a wholly owned subsidiary which was incorporated on 24 March 1982 . |
| 13 | Under a 1937 agreement , PAA was allowed to operate two flights a week to the UK : it continued to do this during the war years , unmatched by BOAC . |
| 14 | Well surely we 're trying to do this in the way of neighbourhood watch |