Example sentences of "[noun] do it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whistle Down The Wind did it in 1961 and made Hayley Mills a child star . |
| 2 | But while this ‘ violence ’ is to be expected within the family , it 's not acceptable when your child does it to other children she encounters . |
| 3 | ( The French , being Socialist , have to train girls to cook , but being chauvinists , only let males do it for real . |
| 4 | Mr. Gordon had persuaded Sir George Phillips , who was a rather crabby old man , to let them use the Park for their meetings , but , all the same , Judy had the feeling that Mr. Gordon did it for Brown Owl and not at all for the Brownies . |
| 5 | As Jim Perrin almost explained in his highly perceptive and barely obscure September piece , today 's rock climber does it for extrinsic reasons , creating a gulf between that activity and the intrinsic moves of the other mountain activities . |
| 6 | But I know that 's what it was you know because the wee lassie done it with this special electronic thing |
| 7 | So why did they think that they had the er means to do it in nineteen forty seven ? |
| 8 | Can I say that we are now organising quite tightly the business of street collections , and I think if committee are minded to reduce the number of collections that we allow , we should decide that before we come to this meeting , because I think it 's very difficult in practical terms to do it at this stage , and therefore I would suggest that we do agree twenty-one , not withstanding what Graham said , we can take on board some of what he said , and maybe the month before we are asked to take this decision , we have an item on the agenda where we discuss the principle before we get down to the practicalities . |
| 9 | And the people doing it in these garages erm , you know like respraying and doing all the welding and everything , really he said some of the things they were doing if they did it legally they 'd make a good go of it |
| 10 | If smoking is allowed it stops people doing it in secret and making it into a clever or fashionable thing to do |
| 11 | 15 million people did it in 1985 — will you be one of them this time ? |
| 12 | Three legends share the quickest century but Bernard Ganley , David Watkins and Steve Quinn did it in 18 games . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Today we had one of those famous assault courses , followed by a ten-mile forced march ; my platoon did it in one hour and forty minutes , which is not too bad . |
| 15 | It was another American gesture , though far fewer Americans do it in these cancer-conscious days . |
| 16 | One yearned for Richards to make the romantics smile by sending in two bowlers to polish them off , reflecting that when Percy Chapman did it with fifteen needed against Australia in 1928–9 ( and lost two wickets ! ) , |
| 17 | Jim did it in half an hour . |
| 18 | We of course did it in nineteen eighty six , er but this year there are about fifteen hundred officers involved from fifteen different police forces . |
| 19 | Just to highli I 'd just like to highlight a few of the principles before I comment on this dishonesty of this Government in , on the one hand enacting a major piece of legislation and on the other hand doing it in such a way that Councils 'll settle for failure because resources have not been allocated . |
| 20 | So that was four men do it in twelve hours , how many in two . |
| 21 | The only difference was that Francis did it with more charm . |
| 22 | SHABBA DOES IT AT LAST |
| 23 | Macca comes second and has the ability to do it with both feet ! |
| 24 | Well that 's interesting , because six women do the job in eight hours , and it would take eight women to do it in six hours . |
| 25 | The constraint for social workers wanting to do family work with elderly clients is to be allowed the time to do it at all . |
| 26 | When you have seen it done twice , and furthermore your mother does it with complete confidence and expects you to eat the result , then you are sure . |