Example sentences of "[verb] do it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus Terence Davies is to be congratulated for having ‘ wrenched high art from the lower depths of his deprived Liverpool childhood ’ ( The Mail on Sunday , 16 October 1988 ) , which is a ‘ recreation devoutly to be wished ’ and not least because ‘ he has done it without rancour ’ ( how typically British ) . |
| 2 | I think , I think that last erm break in has done it to death has n't it ? |
| 3 | No , you do n't need to do it by eye . |
| 4 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 5 | He tried to do it at home and that was |
| 6 | anyway Bob said oh you 'll see him on Friday , I says Bill is a busy bloke you know , I says you ca n't just go on Friday and expect to do it over weekend |
| 7 | In Ireland last week , we were accused of writing a ‘ dirty ’ book for vulgar gain ( would it have been any better if we 'd done it for charity ? ) and worse , of racism . |
| 8 | Of course at that time we did n't realise she 'd done it on purpose . |
| 9 | Well I do n't think you 'd done it since Christmas had you ? |
| 10 | They 'd done it in Gaelic to cover up the vulgarity . |
| 11 | Martin mentioned that he , he 'd done it by post and you , you ex explored as to why . |
| 12 | So we 're looking to do it with tape recorders on the busiest entrance and you know and just say car D five one four R G M blah blah blah . |
| 13 | For twelve days her subconscious mind had ‘ seen ’ Sylvia calmly and confidently entering the cupboard under the stairs with no signs of panic ; so when , on the thirteenth day , she came to do it in reality there was still no need for anxiety to manifest itself . |
| 14 | Such disputes , wrote a successful English diplomat in the 1670s , " seem to me but so many impertinencies that are grown this last age into the character of Ambassadors ; having been raised and cultivated by men , who , wanting other talents to value themselves upon in those employments , endeavoured to do it by exactness or niceties in the forms " . |
| 15 | All the contractors have agreed to do it at cost . |
| 16 | But he 's got to do it on Access because there 's no money in the bank to write a cheque out and pay for the suit . |
| 17 | I did n't want to do it at school or at home . |
| 18 | He did not want to do it in front of the crowd . |
| 19 | To increase public knowledge , he set about creating Britain 's first comprehensive design guide for houseowners , called Do It In Style , which Wandsworth Council are now publishing , as well as writing and speaking on the subject . |
| 20 | ‘ I could n't have done it without help from a Ministry grant and my brother Matthew . |
| 21 | I think she might have done it without regret . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Could someone have done it on purpose ? ’ he asked . |
| 23 | You may have to do it in longhand . |
| 24 | A traditional manager will attempt to do it by fault-finding and non-stop nagging . |
| 25 | But I am sure that if someone found they liked doing chemistry at school they 're likely to find that they like continuing to do it at university , and vice versa . |
| 26 | I started doing it with pot , breaking a little bit , squashing it on the foil and smoking it as though I was having a chase . |
| 27 | Would I do the job this way if I was asked to do it at work ? |
| 28 | And how did she manage to do it without Angy knowing ? |
| 29 | Yeah , we use to do it on location . |
| 30 | No … not if you really did do it for Mummy , of course … ’ |