Example sentences of "do [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let them put it on you and you are done for at last — food for the cannons , and the swamp-fever , and the hulks . |
| 2 | And I think kids should be encouraged to erm think about themselves rather than just tick boxes and I think er , er er a group of sentences down here written by the form teacher , by the subject teacher and the pupil erm , as it 's been done for about , for a few years , a good habit to get the kids into , erm especially as a record of achievement should start from year seven . |
| 3 | We have n't done about about circuits . |
| 4 | He still ca n't draw any correlation between this project and the BIPS-1 work being done out at DEC 's Western Research Lab ( UX No 394 ) . |
| 5 | And sometimes Madame would just decide that we all needed a change and there 'd be paint ordered and people would come in during the day and work for a couple of days and the whole place would be done out for a party or a festival . |
| 6 | He said it was done out like a brothel and that the food was n't fit for a rabbit . |
| 7 | It was a very difficult period in my career , and the problem with the transfer was that everything was done out in the open . |
| 8 | You 're in the mood for a long spell at the crease , but the penis decides that it ca n't wait to get the game over and done with before heading back to the pavilion to put its feet up on the couch . |
| 9 | I think it looks like he wanted to get the thing over and done with before the Sabbath . |
| 10 | As Sampras , who had suddenly found the steel and resilience that he could have done with in his match with Leconte 48 hours earlier , or even in the early stages of the third set against Forget , produced the lob to the baseline which made it 15–40 from the home team 's point of view , Noah sunk back into his seat in disbelief . |
| 11 | Heavy rain had prevented an ; y play on the first day at Old Trafford , and though high scores were not expected when play got under way on the second day , few people could reasonably have expected that the contest would be over and done with in one day . |
| 12 | Time consuming and costly negotiations on pay settlements can be over and done with in hours instead of weeks , as each proposal is fed into the model and the implications displayed immediately for further discussion . |
| 13 | This squirt of wheelspin which initiates the final turning phase is barely visible ; the turning is all over and done with by the time the speculator broadslides complete the rider 's acceleration out of the corner . |
| 14 | It 'll be over and done with by then wo n't it ? |
| 15 | Then there were blankets to be cleaned , saddles to be lifted on and buckles galore to be done up on girths and surcingles , stirrups and cruppers , breastplates and bridles . |
| 16 | He was wearing a duffel coat , done up on the wrong toggles , with copies of evening papers turned back at the job columns sticking out of both pockets . |
| 17 | He wore a cap and a longish mac done up at the neck . |
| 18 | The children took deep breaths , tried to shrink their shoulder-blades , as the buttons were done up at the back . |
| 19 | In the passage , done up with string and still unopened , were the parcels and Christmas cards sent by the world and his brother when they learned she was moving home three months ago … ! |
| 20 | Then there are some pathetic , weedy looking swots , inadequately equipped and unsuitably dressed , in gaberdine raincoats and Oxford shoes , unwieldy packs all done up with string , who look as if they have never walked farther than a hundred yards at any time in their lives . |
| 21 | Never misuse tools : nuts , for example , are meant to be undone and done up with proper spanners . |
| 22 | ‘ You should 'ave seen 'em tonight — all done up like poncin' poll-parrots . |
| 23 | Luckily , traditionally , builders do n't work Sundays , and there was a huge pile of the stuff next door , where Old Pete was having his gaff done up by a lad with an earring and purple Escort ( traditional tools of the trade ) . |
| 24 | The nuts should first be done up by hand . |
| 25 | Stations on the Cambrian Line are now pretty decrepit : Welshpool boarded up and part used by a Catering Contractor with minimal facilities and passenger information but the station is to be done up by the Local Authority : Newtown — possibly manned for only one shift per day ; Caersws — very nice with the semaphore signals and signal box still in use . |
| 26 | Now the area was being done up by the young middle class , he stubbornly refused to paint his house and remained firmly working class to the extent of asking the Council to bring back his outside toilet . |
| 27 | And the whole lot would be done up from the bottom as a winter ‘ do-up ’ to stop the mud from getting on to it . ’ |
| 28 | He has gathered about him a defecting company of slum boys , with one of whom , Bryant , of the distorted face , his hair done up in small Medusa pigtails , he sometimes makes love . |
| 29 | It 's all done up in steel pins and scaffolding to hold it up , and I once saw a computer thing in a museum showing how it shudders when the trains go over . |
| 30 | And the next night the backdrop was ‘ A Night in Spain ’ , and there was Stella II , it was his very first night , all done up in black and gold lace with an underskirt of violent red , a red Elizabeth the First wig for some reason and a real red rose , it was sensational , and it was his first night too , Stella II doing ‘ Te Amo ’ till the tears ran down his face . |