Example sentences of "do [prep] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | New wood must be fine sanded and if an orbital sander has been used , it is essential that the final sanding is done by hand with the grain , otherwise small circular marks will be seen in the finish . |
| 2 | Why did they decide to buy a £1,200 closed system for transferring spray when it can be done by hand for free ? |
| 3 | There was no induction hopper so all filling was done by hand . |
| 4 | ‘ We work hard because it is all done by hand . |
| 5 | Despite the availability of hardware for the automated conversion of geographic data from paper maps to digital form ( e.g. optical scanners ) much data input to GIS is still done by hand using a digitizing table . |
| 6 | Only small machines can be used and much work is done by hand . |
| 7 | Finally it was taken into the adjoining paint shop where the painting was done by hand , a laborious task . |
| 8 | Much of the work is done by hand . |
| 9 | Originating from ‘ cheiro ’ , a hand , and ‘ proktos ’ , to use , it literally means ‘ done by hand ’ or ‘ manipulation ’ . |
| 10 | A number of wooden ships continued to be built without adequate shear bracing , however , and such ships got more leaky as they got older , until , in an age when most of the pumping was done by hand , it became uneconomic to run them any longer . |
| 11 | Although we thought at first that this was a saw intended for only a serious builder , we discovered that it also earned its keep doing fairly mundane cutting jobs that would normally be done by hand . |
| 12 | ( With the built-in weaving brushes on the standard sinker plate , this has to be done by hand . ) |
| 13 | All work was done by hand , even dismantling and re-assembly being carried out without the aid of lifting tackle , and the aircraft is now resplendent in original silver trainer scheme with yellow T-bands . |
| 14 | It might completely replace the present office desk with slips of paper and pencils , though of course library research ( unless by then databases had expanded dramatically ) and rough drafting would still be done by hand . |
| 15 | But the unloading , all done by hand , was a slow process . |
| 16 | So everything was done by hand , in fact ? |
| 17 | Everything was done by hand . |
| 18 | Illustrations and line drawings are quite happily handled by the scanner although photographs , half tones to use the correct term , still need to be done by hand . |
| 19 | Although ventilation of the mines ( by huge steam-driven fans ) and haulage ( the raising and lowering of the cage or lift in the deep mines , and much of the transport underground ) had long been mechanized , work at the actual coal-face was still done by hand in many collieries ; and pit-ponies still dragged the small four-wheeled drams — the tubs or trams from the working places to link up with the mechanized ‘ journeys ’ . |
| 20 | Er that will always be done by hand . |
| 21 | Colouring was done by hand , following pattern plates coloured by the artist , so that different copies of the same work , perhaps done several years apart in a slow-selling book , may differ considerably among themselves . |
| 22 | Dye mixing was still being done by hand , often using the same bucket , without cleaning the dregs in between , for startlingly different shades , so that colour matching was virtually impossible . |
| 23 | Everything was done by hand ? |
| 24 | Everything was done by hand . |
| 25 | Washing was done by hand . |
| 26 | A lot of it was done by hand . |
| 27 | It would have been mostly done by hand . |
| 28 | we had to pull forward it 's not due so we 've got er so we 've given them three days to You see when we worked out the numbers for the we were given all the , the allowances , the rates et cetera , et cetera , we worked the forecast through and seen huge amounts of time given for which the assumption is that it 's all done by hand , the job these cranes so the resources how much money had been spent . |
| 29 | Everything was done by hand , but the famers could still shear up to three thousand animals at a time , washing all the fleeces in the nearby Sherbourne Brook . |
| 30 | It 's like everything else that 's done by hand it 's Aha . |