Example sentences of "do it [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 |
4 | Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ? |
5 | Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place . |
6 | That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent |
7 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |
8 | Two occupiers later the turbine is still doing its job and , I 'm sure , with proper maintenance it will continue doing it for the next century . |
9 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
10 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
11 | We came very close to doing it at the last election . |
12 | Hundreds of soldiers doing it after the last war — and airmen . |
13 | And we 're doing it in a second time . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . ’ |
16 | I did it in the first year , I 'm in the fifth year now , that was four years ago . |
17 | In a nasty , but highly entertaining tirade , one of the more perceptive remarks was that if it was n't for The Wedding Present , Ukrainian music would be confined solely to Blue Peter specials ; surely one of the main reasons the band did it in the first place . |
18 | I did it in the sixth form , it 's really hard , it takes ages |
19 | Booth did it in the last minute , slipping the ball home after Lee Richardson , an outstanding performer in the Aberdeen midfield , had struck the post with a clever shot made possible when Rhodes miskicked . |
20 | And then do it on the first time well if he wanted , he do n't have to go . |
21 | And yet another client of mine who 's a teacher , she said oh yeah she said it 's lovely , she said I suppose I ought to do the marking and all that at the beginning she said but I leave it , she said , and I sometimes do it in the last week . |