Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] do it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well again , I , I , I had to do it as a kid but I did n't afterwards but er , I er , tell you about this chap and I even went back and told him . |
| 2 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 3 | Well I , I had done it at the interval . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 6 | But she had done it in a very peculiar way : she had booked in to a private Well Woman Clinic under an assumed name . |
| 7 | You had to do it through a priest . |
| 8 | The main problem was that we had to do it with a RELIANT ROBIN three wheeler car , looking remarkably similar to Del Boy 's . |
| 9 | They undertook to do it for the whole of the Caldmore area did they ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So erm anyway they they they did do it in the end . |
| 12 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 13 | suddenly it all ended when a SAC , who was n't even a suspect , admitted that he 'd done it during a fit of depression ; with a pair of pliers , not a knife ! |
| 14 | The first time he 'd done it with a boy , he 'd been ashamed . |
| 15 | He said he learnt to do it in the field during the Falklands War . |
| 16 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 17 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 18 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 19 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 20 | And he had done it to a woman who had done nothing to him , simply been a little rude and overbearing , not unlike The Fat Controller himself . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He had done it in the street in front of everyone . |