Example sentences of "[vb past] to do it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he learnt to do it in the field during the Falklands War . |
| 2 | Only got to do it for a second . |
| 3 | They undertook to do it for the whole of the Caldmore area did they ? |
| 4 | Afghans have always killed each other in a small way , and started to do it in a big way only when foreign armies , money and weapons became involved . |
| 5 | They may not have a reason to prefer one way of going about things to another , but the fact that they chose to do it in a particular way gives them a reason to prefer that way from now on . |
| 6 | The main problem was that we had to do it with a RELIANT ROBIN three wheeler car , looking remarkably similar to Del Boy 's . |
| 7 | Well again , I , I , I had to do it as a kid but I did n't afterwards but er , I er , tell you about this chap and I even went back and told him . |
| 8 | You had to do it through a priest . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Our children had to do it in the Cultural Revolutiion ten years later . |
| 11 | The man who wanted to do it with a cigarette in his mouth . |
| 12 | ‘ Even at school there were players more skilful than me , but I was the one who really wanted to do it in every game . |