Example sentences of "do it [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd have done it with an aeroplane but
2 We done it for a laugh and because we were bored and it got out of hand .
3 And the second ad the third advocacy will be the supervised mitigation when you 'll do it with a tutor and then have separate individual feedback given to you .
4 I 'm not like some men who ca n't do it with a woman unless they feel emotionally involved with her .
5 Shall I do it with a toothbrush and a ?
6 The car would do it for a minute or two .
7 So Angela did n't want to get involved — she did n't need the capital , after all — and she said to me she might do it in a year or so when Miss Huntley had calmed down . ’
8 If you give me leave , I will do it in a way that would not dishonour your forebears . ’
9 Said John Thompson , IBM vice-president and Application Business Systems general manager , ‘ We will implement RISC [ on the AS/400 ] , but not until it catches up with the AS/400 architecture , which we think is more advanced … and until we can do it in a way that wo n't disrupt the customer 's applications . ’
10 If machines could be taught to plan over a chessboard , maybe they could do it in a factory as well .
11 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 .
12 ‘ A lot of our traders , particularly the younger ones , compete to see who can wear the most outrageous clothes , ’ says a spokesman , ‘ There was a discussion to do it as a joke but there was not a real consensus .
13 I hate the system that forces them to do it for a living and then screws them afterwards . ’
14 Perhaps I would n't want to do it before an audience but then I 've never performed for others .
15 If girls deviate , they tend to do it in a way that causes far less disruption than boys , such as pretending to write when they are bored .
16 I try to do it in a way that is n't too threatening and allows the opportunity to discuss things . ’
17 Well that depends on whether you are actually doing it during an audit or doing it for other reasons , what they are looking for is that your system is getting better and that you have done the right things .
18 He always did it for a while and then just let it ride to see what happened , but all of a sudden ( it 's amazing — I 've seen it happen several times ) he gets out of bed one morning and says , ‘ Right , I 'm going to do something about it — it 's not moving fast enough for me ’ .
19 No I just did it for a laugh cos I want , I want everyone to know the most interesting language in the world which is part of my language is n't it ?
20 ‘ I did it for an introduction before the films came out in Europe , ’ he says .
21 ‘ Parysatis did it with a chicken and I should have thought of it before . ’
22 And he did it through a method that was little less than divinely inspired .
23 Well that 's fine then erm and what what what happens is that you do it through a bank but there are banks which I think Barclays and the Cooperative Bank and maybe one or two others do it .
24 So I see evaluation as a very democratic activity , which allows people perhaps to appreciate each other 's viewpoints a little more than might otherwise be the case erm and does n't pretend that people all feel the same about things , but at the same time it does n't attempt to sort of countermand the realities of the situation that , you know , each person ca n't go their own sweet way , there have to be quite a lot of collective decisions and people have to recognise where the majority opinion is , but at least they do it from a standpoint that erm where they feel their own value still has some worth and is still being recognised .
25 He never does it on a path or nothing , he always reverses in somewhere .
26 Even when he makes mistakes he does it in a way that still brings results and takes him over the gain line .
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