Example sentences of "[noun sg] to do it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How much better it is to remove trees carefully rather than wait for a gale to do it in an uncoordinated way . |
| 2 | They have the skill to carry out life saving operations and treatments and now they have the equipment to do it with . ’ |
| 3 | Get a girl to do it for you . |
| 4 | ‘ All we do know , ’ he concluded , ‘ is that the assassin must have been a member of the community at the Tower who knew Sir Ralph had changed his bed chamber , and he or she either committed the murder or hired a professional assassin to do it for them . ’ |
| 5 | The major part of the job is electrical and if you 're not confident about tackling this , get a qualified electrician to do it for you . |
| 6 | They employ a fungus to do it for them . |
| 7 | Why should he be farsighted enough to steal and sharpen a ceremonial sword to do it with ? |
| 8 | Now I think this came around , about , because you get the , the people , the women who want to wear fashionable clothes , it 's getting broader and broader and we 're sort of expanding downwards as it were , so you get women who have enough money to buy the material , to buy patterns , who have the skill to make dresses , but have n't the money to actually get a dressmaker to do it for them . |
| 9 | If you are scoring the tests yourself , rather than getting the computer to do it for you , then always do so at the same time of day — otherwise there would be variability due to time-of-day effects upon your scoring ability . |
| 10 | Could he expect Nebamun to do it for him ? |
| 11 | what you have to do is you have to get your sister to do it for you . |
| 12 | to do and we 're going to have the opportunity to do it in a slightly interesting way and you failed miserably because you sat and chatted and did n't get any work done . |
| 13 | Remove the breasts and thighs from the turkey carcase — or ask your butcher to do it for you . |
| 14 | ‘ I was getting a bit anxious , because today was realistically my last chance to do it on turf , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ Maybe there will be someone to fill Lineker 's shoes in years to come but at the moment the replacements must be given a chance to do it in their own time . ’ |
| 16 | Is she the right person to do it from a Catholic school ? |
| 17 | However , out of the blue came the offer of a friend to do it for me , and naturally I accepted gratefully . |
| 18 | It 's hard to imagine Mr Fogg , for example , ever having been a train-spotter : if there was any train-spotting to be done , Mr Fogg would have despatched his loyal French manservant Passepartout to do it on his behalf . |
| 19 | This is an appeal deriving from a politically specific stance which is liberal in outlook , implying the importance of improving living conditions for the poor , and from the ability of the aware and self-critical planner to do it through the state machinery . |
| 20 | She rubbed at herself inneffectually and he had an impulse to do it for her ; if Oliver had been with them , he would have dried them both , enjoying the feel of their lively , vigorous little bodies , but on her own , without Oliver , she seemed too grown-up , not a child any more . |
| 21 | Yeah but she 's already got her own catalogue to do it with . |
| 22 | They get some man to do it at the moment . |
| 23 | And this fella 's just ran , this Piggot 's , all got a head man to do it for them . |
| 24 | ‘ Isobel will get a man to do it in the spring . ’ |
| 25 | To return to Griffith 's experiments , Griffith was not the first man to draw strong glass fibres but he was probably the first man to do it in a systematic way and to provide a plausible explanation of the results . |
| 26 | So if you wanted to be a removal man you had to find the work to justify you having an A licence , but of course you could n't because you had n't got an A licence to do it with . |
| 27 | Seven years ago , she had allowed a man from Christ Church to do it to her on a sofa during a Commem ball , and really she had not liked it . |
| 28 | You decide to leap over the convent wall and hightail it to England to a new life , and you have the wit to do it on early closing day . ’ |
| 29 | It is not fair to expect your local delicatessen to do it for you as it takes a long time to slice the whole ham and Parma must be cut thinly . |
| 30 | Because you 're not , although you 're using the power space , the power er er of the production line or equipment , they might not be , that might not be what you 're making , you 're just using that kit and you need the supplier of that kit to bring an engineer in and you need to get a part of it , but you want control of that rather than just waiting on a supplier to do it for you . |