Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] do it [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | We all sleep , and as a rule we do it at night in one long session of up to nine or ten hours , and during the day we stay awake . |
2 | Fishing is also a sport , although the chaps who do it for a livelihood in trawlers are not included in the sporting fraternity . |
3 | And they never won nothing and they were made redundant last week and one of the chaps he did it on his own this week and won three hundred thousand . |
4 | it 's like the , cos I keep saying if you must do those F's you do it at school I said , but do not do them for me , I said if you do I do not want to see them , but again you 've got a conflict there between home and school |
5 | Mrs. Proudie , on the other hand , definitely has a mind of her own — and though she supports her husband she does it in her own particular way and follows her own idea of what is best for him . |
6 | When he tore off people 's buttons or sprinkled their trousers he did it in a spirit of the purest amity . |
7 | I do n't do mine in microwave I do it in a saucepan what , put my |
8 | According to the publicity men at Playtex she did it without the aid of pumping iron or silicone injections . |
9 | Right , I was subject to a , an assault that was quite frightening erm in that I was working in a shop on my own and er someone came into the shop and locked the door behind me and tried er to pull me down towards the back of the shop and er apart from being very frightened I find it difficult to accept that I was just an innocent victim , I kept making excuses that this person who did it to me did n't mean to frighten me he , only could n't communicate that he , he , he said it eventually when I managed to fight him off he said , I just wanted to give you a kiss and er I find it very difficult and I had to be forced to go to the police erm to tell them about this because I thought you know its just a misunderstanding and , but it was terrifying |
10 | I would n't even wish it on the person who did it to Paul . ’ |
11 | Well my brother the only person he does it to is him . |
12 | ‘ Court proceedings could be long and drawn out , and how do you prove when a player went in for a tackle he did it with intent to harm his opponent ? |
13 | They were the people who did it for nothing . ’ |
14 | B : Well , Jane was the woman he did it to . |
15 | B : Well , Jane was the woman he did it to . |
16 | it 's not a reflex action that the Labour Party somehow engages in , but there are things that we need to rave raise revenue for , such as investment in the economy , like our social policies , and that the way that we will raise revenue is that we we will have a fair taxation system , that is very straightforward , and agreed by the Party , unlike the Conservatives who firstly do n't recognize there is any purpose in investment in the economy , public investment , or investment in social policies they do n't agree with , and secondly , when they do have to raise money they do it in the unfairest possible way , penalizing most those who can least |
17 | And at the end of the day hardly anyone remembers the programmes they did it for . ’ |
18 | Germany they do it with T V licences |
19 | Whenever the courts draw a line to mark out the bounds of duty they do it as a matter of policy so as to limit the responsibility of the defendant . |
20 | Even when he makes mistakes he does it in a way that still brings results and takes him over the gain line . |
21 | And sis he do it for the whole of the island or just the was did the sort of parish have their own chap ? |
22 | Well last year I did it at Latton Bush . |
23 | Now do I do it over the music across the north I do it over the music Okay right here we go . |
24 | way you do it at granny 's . |
25 | Okay the way you do it by hand is you just say , one times twenty three , is twenty three . |
26 | Now you 've had the , the benefit of hindsight which would you rather go with , the structured way or the , you know , the way you did it at the |
27 | Karl , please do it exactly the way you did it with Hanna in the last production . ’ |
28 | But yo , not the way you did it over here . |
29 | Not that she agreed with him — if he were to appear before her right now , she 'd still defend what she did and the way she did it to the hilt . |
30 | Have you done it with your little'un yet or is it bigger ones you do it with ? |