Example sentences of "[adv] do [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I have to lose it , I 'll only do it in the ring . |
| 2 | I said if I 've got to do a dozen sausage rolls for one I 'd better do them for the others . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ This would force Langbaurgh Council and Northumbrian Water to get together to do something about the terrible sewage problems there . ’ |
| 4 | I was only doing it for the money . ’ |
| 5 | He smiled tenderly , and the knowledge that he was only doing it for the benefit of anyone who might be watching sliced deep into the very heart of her . |
| 6 | Well this is alright , but we 're only doing it for the beneficiaries int you ? |
| 7 | And they only do it to the angry ones . |
| 8 | He thought it about the stupidest remark he 'd ever made — and so did she by the look on her face . |
| 9 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 10 | ‘ If you want to throw up , at least you can just do it over the side . ’ |
| 11 | Referring to the burden which subsidies placed on the state budget , Ben Ali said that " we can no longer do nothing in the face of the growth of the compensation costs , which alone absorb one-quarter of state expenditure " . |
| 12 | That , that 's a sensible kind of conclusion to draw and perhaps this would meet Kirsty 's point as well , because the what you might be tempted to say is look erm , in our cultures we have , we have absorbed from our cultures ways of seeing the world , bits about history and things restructure our thoughts and even when we try and do something new , I 'd say let's have a revolution everybody , put up your barricades , you know , actually we had some great fun in the sixties with that erm the , when this happens there 's a tendency to nevertheless do it in the traditional way , in other words although obviously the sixty eight revolution was about a completely different issue than the seventeen ninety eight revolution , it was very much later in history . |
| 13 | ‘ We would normally do it on the day she moves in . ’ |
| 14 | You can not do everything at the same time . |
| 15 | Most countries organize censuses of their population on something like ten-yearly intervals , but not all do , and they certainly do not do them at the same point in time . |
| 16 | ‘ But I made a decision that I would not do it beyond the age of 35 , and then I would return to try to make a contribution . ’ |
| 17 | Therefore , although we welcome legislation that deals with the serious issues , and although we have promised to consider it carefully in Committee , we can not do anything about the crime figures . |
| 18 | The archbishop hoped that this offer would be sufficient to restore peace , and Lancaster together with Wake and others swore a solemn oath that they had not done anything against the estate of the king or to the dishonour of his royal lordship . |
| 19 | Some people have already done it by the looks of things , only they have n't changed it . |
| 20 | She held his , defiantly and strongly , determined not to do anything of the sort . |
| 21 | Well , children can be allowed to express their anxieties verbally and to learn perhaps from the adults ' modelling around them that to talk about these things in moderation is perfectly acceptable erm but not to do it to the extent or to allow children to perhaps watch the news coverage to the extent that they become over excited and are not able to contain their own feelings of anxiety about loss and damage and death and separation from parents and significant adults . |
| 22 | ‘ I ‘ m not doing it for the money . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not doing it for the money , ’ said the new Bob . |
| 24 | But it 's not doing it at the moment , although there 's |
| 25 | You 're not doing it at the party ? |
| 26 | Ah , erm , but , do you think that , sorry , do you think the appraisal itself , because it 's an annual event , er , some branch managers will get to you with what turns out to be the performance review , and therefore , not doing it during the year , because of the appraisal ? |
| 27 | Oh bugger me I 'm , there 's no way I 'm not doing it by the books |
| 28 | Erm you 're now you 're not doing anything at the moment , we we agreed it was resting . |
| 29 | Oh she 's erm , she 's not doing anything at the moment because erm |
| 30 | I 'm just doing something at the moment |