Example sentences of "[vb past] to do it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 2 | Because of his inexperience and the firing of the two previous directors , he asked to do it under another name , not wanting to take the rap for a flop . |
| 3 | Instead of smelting the ore with charcoal in slow processes aided by waterwheels , they needed to do it with cheap coke produced by the rapidly expanding coal-mining industry . |
| 4 | And the mothers had to do it in those days , half a crown to do all the washing for this woman . |
| 5 | She tended to do it of late years by proxy , as it were : she was good — or had been before the advent of the Reverend Hereward Marr — at manning the tea-urn at the church social . |