Example sentences of "do this [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can do this to the extent of saying as Agatha Christie ( who abandoned Hercule Poirot 's charmingly bumbling Captain Hastings quite early ) does in One , Two , Buckle my Shoe ; " For the first time Hercule Poirot was looking at the case the right way up . " |
| 2 | You may do this with the juice of plums , gooseberries , apricots , figs , or any juicy fruit . " |
| 3 | X can do this at the time of giving the goods to Y or at any later stage . |
| 4 | It 's we 're very conscious that erm the costs that we 've incurred we need to keep strapped down to a minimum , but we have to manage a forty million pound organisation and you can not do this on the back of an envelope . |
| 5 | To shorten the odds on reproducing itself it must produce a significant crop of attractive fruit , but it can not do this without the framework on which to hang and parade its wares . |
| 6 | Once you can do this without the aid of the locator , you will have the satisfaction of knowing that your own skills alone will enable you to make use of this last-ditch method of rescue . |
| 7 | It will feel the need to express its dominance and will do this in the manner of a ‘ top cat ’ . |
| 8 | Unrealised by himself , he has in fact been striving to do this since the dawn of civilisation . |
| 9 | i am certainly in favour of questioning , both on my part and that of the patient , but it is better to do this towards the end of the consultation when the regression itself is over . |
| 10 | It has been possible to do this with the help of donations from Crisis — the national charity for single homeless people ; the Law Society ; the London Boroughs Grants C Committee and the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux . |
| 11 | If they were able to do this over the course of the whole meal-time they received a sticker on the chart . |
| 12 | Well surely we 're trying to do this in the way of neighbourhood watch |
| 13 | They have been helped to do this by the introduction of so-called ‘ call-off ’ contracts set up by Purchasing — which is part of AEA Estates — to enable them to place orders . |
| 14 | When he sought to do this from the pulpit of St Paul 's on 5 November 1709 ( the anniversary of the gunpowder treason plot , when preachers usually reserved their invective for Catholics ) , and combined it with a defence of the doctrines of passive-obedience and non-resistance , the Whig ministry of the day decided to use the opportunity to try to discredit the Church in Danger platform . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life if I 'm not careful , ’ she told me one day . |
| 16 | The group 's belief in its own morality : ‘ We are doing this for the benefit of everyone . ’ |
| 17 | Some were still doing this on the eve of war in 1336 . |
| 18 | ‘ I am doing this in the interest of the great majority of our people , ’ she said . |
| 19 | We did this towards the end of the holiday . |
| 20 | Once I did this under the eye of a policeman who nabbed me for parking on a yellow line when I emerged from the bank a few minutes later . |
| 21 | If I did this with the intention of deceiving people , would I be telling a lie ? |
| 22 | He did this on the advice of his father , who shared his misgivings about travelling on a passport in that name . |
| 23 | He , or the second horseman , did this for the whole of the field until it was marked out in equally spaced stetches . |
| 24 | You can use a submersible pump , which you 're using for a fountain or cascade to empty most of the water , but only do this to the level of the pump intake — then it 's a matter of bailing out with a bucket . |
| 25 | They do this in the form of infidelities but they have very different consequences and conclusions , partly due to the differences in their characters and also their circumstances . |
| 26 | He does this with the aid of a collection of 160 photographs which graphically show the results that may be obtained . |
| 27 | Marriage is one of the elements which leads to the formation and the maintenance of the inequality between classes and it does this at the expense of women . |
| 28 | It does this without the use of adhesive or any other kind of fastener , which makes a welcome change from wrestling with the customary bits of plastic , sticky tabs and Velcro . |
| 29 | It does this without the use of adhesive or any other kind of fastener , which makes a welcome change from wrestling with the customary bits of plastic , sticky tabs and Velcro . |
| 30 | Although Father Christmas also delivers presents to children in Australia , he does this in the middle of summer because December is one of the summer months there . |