Example sentences of "[adv] do it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We felt we could only do it through local pressure , using the media and direct action ’ , a member of the group recalled . |
| 2 | So far as talking is concerned , they can only do it to each other . |
| 3 | After a while I stopped telling myself I was n't going to be sick , and — resigned to the fact that I was going to have to throw up at some point — kept telling myself instead that I 'd manage to hold it in until I was back in the flat , and so do it in private , rather than into the gutter in front of people . |
| 4 | ‘ You know the bad consequence of my laying myself under unnecessary obligation , and you will therefore take care that I only do it for real Friends that I can depend upon , ’ the member of parliament warned . |
| 5 | You only do it with those whom you know can take it , as Bill could take it , and as all the climbers with whom I grew up could take it , and hand it out . |
| 6 | Well thirty nine or forty all do it to thirty nine just to keep , so all have the same results . |
| 7 | well how stupid why 's he just done it like that ? |
| 8 | Er it 's a fifty percent uptake but it co and he says , Do n't you can ch you can just do it for six months of the Year . |
| 9 | We do not do it for any other aspect of our social existence . |
| 10 | Anything less and we might as well not do it at all . |
| 11 | My response to these people is , if you can , t do the thing properly , then , please , do not do it at all . |
| 12 | She would not do it at all . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't — yes , I could do that , ’ said Caspar , who could not do it at all , but could see that there was no other answer to be given . |
| 14 | If they can not do it in that time they never will . |
| 15 | And there 's no use getting in the exam on Thursday and say ah well I 'm afraid I 've not done it on that arm so erm lost |
| 16 | I mean I 've not done it before this is |
| 17 | I 'm not doing it for monetary reward or because I 'm asked to ; I 'm doing it because I feel I have to do it . |
| 18 | I 'm not doing it for monetary reward or because I 'm asked to ; I 'm doing it because I feel I have to do it . |
| 19 | So y I 've got to weigh up whether I 'm actually going to make a profit over four years or whether it 's going to be , but I 'm not doing it for that it 's not so much making a profit as the fact that I can secure the loan for four years and know that I have n't got any extra to , to find , and when you 've retired , if you 've got say seven years on your mortgage and you 're thinking well if mortgage rates go up erm I could get stuffed you know if they doubled again then you could actually fix on that assumption . |
| 20 | I said no , I 'm not , I 'm not doing it for that reason I said I 'm trying to you know thought to myself we 'll give them something back . |
| 21 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 22 | Peer pressure is a factor , but not necessarily in a coercive way ; a teenager who is n't sure how to smoke a joint will be more worried about losing face from doing it wrong than not doing it at all . |
| 23 | They 're certainly not doing it with other men ( only 3.6 per cent claim to have had homosexual intercourse ) , so can we presume yet again that men just like to say they do it more often . |
| 24 | If you 're not doing it like that and you 're in a conversation or atmosphere in the room , when I find it , this little gadget is wonderful , this will pick up for a long way , this will pick up the dogs next door , if there was no other noise in this room . |
| 25 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 26 | Yeah , you just do it for one bloody night do n't you ? |
| 27 | Just do it with that screwdriver when I get home . |
| 28 | Erm , in two point four , you just do it with one key , if you want to delete a cell out that 's del . |
| 29 | If I do it at half the speed , just do it at thirty miles an hour , how long will that take ? |
| 30 | Now , he asked himself as he chewed the bread , do I always do it like that ? |