Example sentences of "[vb past] do it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 !
2 He tried to do it at home and that was
3 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 .
4 Of course at that time we did n't realise she 'd done it on purpose .
5 Well I do n't think you 'd done it since Christmas had you ?
6 They 'd done it in Gaelic to cover up the vulgarity .
7 Martin mentioned that he , he 'd done it by post and you , you ex explored as to why .
8 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 .
9 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 " .
10 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 .
11 No … not if you really did do it for Mummy , of course … ’
12 And she had done it in secret .
13 It never occurred to him that the story was questionable , that Wainfleet had deliberately published something he did not totally believe and that he had done it in retaliation for being humiliated .
14 Said to do it in reverse
15 Eddie had to do it with SKILL .
16 ‘ I 'm one of those people who can eat and drink what I like and not put on weight , so I had to do it by weight training and build up the muscle weight , ’ he adds .
17 And we had the pit ponies and where we did n't have the pit ponies drawing the hutches , which we termed the small wagons carrying the coal from the coal face to the pit bottom , then er we had to do it by hand .
18 I think they 've all got their own washing machines on the ward and that sort of thing , whereas we had to do it by hand and then bundle it all up and send it down to the laundry .
19 But they lied to me and I had to do it in English .
20 I had to do it in self-defence , or else he would have killed me .
21 Actually the last time I was stood up on a platform and did this was in front of erm a S G T congress in Dieppe and I tell you I had to do it in French , and it was much more difficult so I 'm hoping this one will go smoothly , but I , what I 'd really like to do is begin with is offer you erm delegates and platform both , a very very warm welcome from the trade union movement in Portsmouth .
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