Example sentences of "[verb] to do [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 How many wonem women would you need to do it in six hours ?
2 Dr Michael Dingle 's surgery is on the third floor , reached by an impossibly small lift ( Kenneth has to do it in two trips ) .
3 It 's something that has taken us years to do and he has to do it in five minutes . ’
4 Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork .
5 ‘ They just want to do the job they are paid and trained to do and they want to do it in suitable clothing , ie in uniform . ’
6 Erm I 've mentioned accessibility , I would raise that again , I 'm a non-driver erm it 's easy to hop in a car and get from here to Chelmsford , if you want to do it by public transport it is a nightmare erm the meeting here on , on Monday which was very poorly attended , and I understand that 's been the pattern right across the area , and I do n't think the health authority is that interested in finding out what people have thought to be honest !
7 He had threatened to do it for some time , but only Hank had taken him seriously and tried to dissuade him .
8 I 've g I 've got about a half a dozen sheets of paper scattered all over the place , and I 've decided to do it in this cos then I can just go to here .
9 How we going to do it with these shoes on ?
10 I 'll have a go , but I 'm not going to do it for two or three
11 We 're not going to do it at all if the King loses interest too early . ’
12 ‘ I thought we were n't going to do it like this any more , ’ Rogers said .
13 I think , I think the problem with this act in my view is that it would 've been one thing to say to people , right from here on in , we 're going to do it like this .
14 We 're going to do it in one move , ’ said the battalion commander Lt Col Alastair Duncan .
15 yeah erm so you 're not going to do yours until next week , er now what department ?
16 I think you 've got to do it in , and I think you 've got to do it in brilliant , er brilliant white .
17 you 've got to do it in four minutes
18 One bit of me says well you 've got to , you 've got to do it like that .
19 I do n't want to do it like that .
20 Because of his inexperience and the firing of the two previous directors , he asked to do it under another name , not wanting to take the rap for a flop .
21 I had always intended to do it at some stage . ’
22 I was taught to do it in first and use the accelerator .
23 But we 'll have to do it with cold water and the yard broom . ’
24 But obviously if you 're going to do that you 'll have to do it during next week some time On the other hand I could give you a list of five topics and you could choose one .
25 One minute We 're welcome to collaborate with the person next to you , you do n't have to do it in splendid isolation .
26 No one says you ca n't write it down do n't have to do it in all in your head do you .
27 I 'll have to do it like this .
28 I 'll have to do it like this !
29 Instead of smelting the ore with charcoal in slow processes aided by waterwheels , they needed to do it with cheap coke produced by the rapidly expanding coal-mining industry .
30 I have a suspicion I 've wanted to do it for some time . ’
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