Example sentences of "[vb infin] do [pers pn] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ’ . |
2 | ‘ She would have done it in a preordained way , of course , ’ mused Henry . |
3 | ‘ We also know that if Vechey committed suicide he must have done it in the early hours , just before dawn . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |