Example sentences of "[vb past] to do [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | Said to do it in reverse |
| 6 | They always had to do them on Boxing Day , so that the letters went into the first possible post after Christmas . |
| 7 | Eddie had to do it with SKILL . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But they lied to me and I had to do it in English . |
| 12 | I had to do it in self-defence , or else he would have killed me . |
| 13 | 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 . |