Example sentences of "the [noun] do it [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | to do and we 're going to have the opportunity to do it in a slightly interesting way and you failed miserably because you sat and chatted and did n't get any work done . |
2 | Building societies are a bit naughty in that they 're regularly advertising rates at over fifty thousand pounds , the Loughborough do it for one , in er my local paper . |
3 | If you are scoring the tests yourself , rather than getting the computer to do it for you , then always do so at the same time of day — otherwise there would be variability due to time-of-day effects upon your scoring ability . |
4 | Now if I could just remind you of what 's happened at the Lyndford Haven er er , Synod , last March erm , the Financial Committee have suggested that we should go for a target of five hundred and ten thousand but er , this is we are not gon na be able to even start looking at the eleven and a half thousand if if er all the provinces do it for months and more and we , I think very bravely or foolishly whatever way you li , look at it , proposed that we should got to five hundred and forty thousand and it looks as thought we 're gon na end up certainly nearer to five ten than five forty . |
5 | Whistle Down The Wind did it in 1961 and made Hayley Mills a child star . |
6 | The spring does it for you . ’ |
7 | But they do it though and they expect the cleaners to do it for no extra pay ? |
8 | They have the skill to carry out life saving operations and treatments and now they have the equipment to do it with . ’ |
9 | Almost all the murders that the police solve in real life are either dealt with in a matter of hours ( the husband done it with the kitchen knife ) or as a result of long , long , tedious inquiries , mostly house-to-house , the taking of fingerprints and the elimination of perhaps thousands of marginal suspects . |
10 | In a nasty , but highly entertaining tirade , one of the more perceptive remarks was that if it was n't for The Wedding Present , Ukrainian music would be confined solely to Blue Peter specials ; surely one of the main reasons the band did it in the first place . |
11 | Nearly half the population does it at least once . |
12 | The eel does it with the aid of electricity . |
13 | And the people doing it in these garages erm , you know like respraying and doing all the welding and everything , really he said some of the things they were doing if they did it legally they 'd make a good go of it |
14 | You decide to leap over the convent wall and hightail it to England to a new life , and you have the wit to do it on early closing day . ’ |
15 | ‘ The government does it with poll tax bills , letting us know how much we pay for those who wo n't , so why not extend it ? |
16 | You 've got to give them a very specific task to do and give them the support and the materials to do it with and make sure it happens so that when they turn up at 3 o ’ clock , it 's set up to go . |
17 | The men do it for money , same as the girls . " |
18 | The men do it for money , same as the girls . " |
19 | The coward does it with a kiss |
20 | Macca comes second and has the ability to do it with both feet ! |
21 | Of course , the fact that you have written a computer program that will do what an animal does is no proof that the animal does it in the same way . |
22 | The constraint for social workers wanting to do family work with elderly clients is to be allowed the time to do it at all . |
23 | She just feels she wanted the time to do it in her time . |
24 | But he checked every bit of my work of course and so most of the time do it by himself and let and me do other things . |
25 | Next morning , whether or not Jessica had meant to change the plan , the weather did it for them . |
26 | In practice if there are beneficiaries who are capable of being consulted , it 's likely that one will say to those beneficiaries Right we need to raise some money , there 's only the shares to do it with , we 're proposing to sell them do you agree with that or would you prefer to have the shares and gives us some money ? |