Example sentences of "do [pers pn] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , as you say , I cover all the points but because you do n't do them in the right order perhaps you muck them up |
| 2 | But I could do them in the smaller size . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Mum , look what I 've done Grumpy on done him , I 've done him in the right hat you see |
| 5 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | they , they should of done , but they did n't , the point is they should n't of left it the last minute , they should of done it in the first place |
| 8 | Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ? |
| 9 | Almost all of the higher earners and men with 10 or more partners have had oral sex with a woman , and it 's the men with a regular relationship and someone else on the side who are most likely to have done it in the past year . |
| 10 | Now it 's naughty with a capital N. So you do n't do it , or you do n't do it in the normal way , which is relying on somebody inside a company to tell you things . |
| 11 | No , I wo n't do it then I 'll do it I 'll do it in the early evening when no one 's too drunk . |
| 12 | Why ca n't you do it in the front room then ? |
| 13 | Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place . |
| 14 | If they can do it in the far North , surely I can do it in the South ? ’ |
| 15 | If they can do it in the far North , surely I can do it in the South ? |
| 16 | ‘ To get my 150th would be another landmark and it would be nice if I could do it in the Premier League . ’ |
| 17 | That , that 's a sensible kind of conclusion to draw and perhaps this would meet Kirsty 's point as well , because the what you might be tempted to say is look erm , in our cultures we have , we have absorbed from our cultures ways of seeing the world , bits about history and things restructure our thoughts and even when we try and do something new , I 'd say let's have a revolution everybody , put up your barricades , you know , actually we had some great fun in the sixties with that erm the , when this happens there 's a tendency to nevertheless do it in the traditional way , in other words although obviously the sixty eight revolution was about a completely different issue than the seventeen ninety eight revolution , it was very much later in history . |
| 18 | Everybody 's got ta do it in the long run . |
| 19 | I thought we 'd do it in the fresh air rather than in the car , cos it just means |
| 20 | As Linda Nochlin said , ‘ Not all women artists are feminists ; not all feminist artists wish to incorporate their feminist identity into their art works , and certainly , even if some of them do , none of them will do it in the same way ’ . |
| 21 | And you could do that in the all the rest area , you could do it in the whole club to be honest . |
| 22 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |
| 23 | and if you wan na do something slightly different then do it in a role play scenario with a manager or a senior adviser and er get their feedback accordingly but I 'd be te I would n't be tempted to do it in the real world . |
| 24 | To do it smoothly , to do it in the right time , you have to be physically very fit . |
| 25 | ‘ Our children had to do it in the Cultural Revolutiion ten years later . |
| 26 | Yes , yes , when Paddy tried to do ours in the flat need to use small screw drivers to make the , the . |
| 27 | But you see doing them in the isolated spot |
| 28 | ‘ The only difference between Lee and Roy Keane and David Hirst is that they are doing it in the Premier League . |
| 29 | I WAS more startled at the amount Mr Lamont was allowed to run up on his card rather than his doing it in the first place . |
| 30 | We do n't actually want to catch people shoplifting , our aim is to try to put them off doing it in the first place . ’ |