Example sentences of "[prep] do it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not cos you have n't got ta do it from the outside it 's from the inside . |
| 2 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 3 | Now I 've got ta do it in the dark ! |
| 4 | Everybody 's got ta do it in the long run . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Well I mean I know that twenty percent is twenty pound in a hundred , but what 's a quick way of doing it on the calculator . |
| 7 | The gerbil does need to be examined properly and there are ways and means of doing it with the minimum amount of stress . |
| 8 | ‘ There must be a way of doing it without the costs of a full listing . |
| 9 | But , as one ex-councillor puts it , ‘ If he ca n't manage to present the Labour Party in new colours in his own constituency , what hope has he of doing it in the country ? ’ |
| 10 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |
| 11 | I tidy and vacuum the sitting room after she 's gone to bed — I do n't see any point in doing it in the morning because it 'll only get messed up again . |
| 12 | We came very close to doing it at the last election . |
| 13 | you can over do it with the carrots but if you 're a carrot man you might wan na sprinkle some extras on |
| 14 | They 're working on what they 're gon na say and when they 're gon na do it at the moment . |
| 15 | I 'm not gon na do it in the kitchen . |
| 16 | The bit where , where she goes , are you gon na do it like the pigeons ? |
| 17 | He angered even the faithful by doing it in the middle of the night , announcing he would slash spending to close a gaping budget deficit and promising to use the new tax revenue to bolster poor school districts . |