Example sentences of "the [noun sg] do [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Whistle Down The Wind did it in 1961 and made Hayley Mills a child star . |
| 4 | The spring does it for you . ’ |
| 5 | Was n't this demonstrated when the scum did us in the semi 's a couple of years ago ? |
| 6 | They have the skill to carry out life saving operations and treatments and now they have the equipment to do it with . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Nearly half the population does it at least once . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 12 | The coward does it with a kiss |
| 13 | Macca comes second and has the ability to do it with both feet ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The constraint for social workers wanting to do family work with elderly clients is to be allowed the time to do it at all . |
| 16 | She just feels she wanted the time to do it in her time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Next morning , whether or not Jessica had meant to change the plan , the weather did it for them . |