Example sentences of "do [pers pn] with the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It is also the budget that has taken notice of what the opposition have actually said we listened to you we have not persevered with our original thinking , we 've talked to the officers , we 've listened to what you 've said , we may not have done it with the greatest grace possible but . |
2 | My reason for not having done it myself and my father 's reasons for not having done it with the National Gallery is that , in the case of Yale , I 'm looking forward to the day when there 'll be other people interested in English art who will give paintings or money to the Center for British Art just because it is the Center for British Art , where they would n't do it if it was the Paul Mellon Center for British Art . |
3 | And I 've done it with the same manager — Harry Bassett . ’ |
4 | Yeah , you 've got to do it with the right inflect as well . |
5 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
6 | The gerbil does need to be examined properly and there are ways and means of doing it with the minimum amount of stress . |
7 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
8 | Can there be anything more telling about the deviousness of these people than his account of how they actually put on television and interviewed a man who was said to have died while in a prison cell , and that , moreover , they did it with the sole motive of demonstrating that he was alive and in good health . |
9 | But somehow Sampras did reach it and Forget managed to make sure with his second volley and said later ‘ … but I 'm not quite sure how I did it with the wrong grip ’ . |
10 | Well , I mean , if we , if we did it with the free ferry , and there 's a possibility we might be able to get fairly cheap accommodation if we drove over there and stayed . |
11 | And then do it with the other leg . |