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

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1 Right so if you get to know if you drew do it through the week do n't worry about the pie charts do n't worry about the fractions .
2 So that that just stopped did it in the end .
3 He said he learnt to do it in the field during the Falklands War .
4 They undertook to do it for the whole of the Caldmore area did they ?
5 No it does all over the place , wherever put newspaper down , he does it on the carpet so kept doing it by the cooker so we put newspaper down there , and put the toys away , see they was in the way you see , put newspaper down there and then next would n't have that , .
6 So erm anyway they they they did do it in the end .
7 The railways had done it to the canals and now it was to happen in turn to the railways .
8 They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor .
9 The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration .
10 Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad .
11 Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist .
12 But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’
13 But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’
14 Well I , I had done it at the interval .
15 He had done it in the street in front of everyone .
16 I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure .
17 ‘ Our children had to do it in the Cultural Revolutiion ten years later .
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