Example sentences of "do it a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | You 've done it a hundred times before . ’ |
2 | ‘ Well , you should have done it a long time ago ; you need a rest . ’ |
3 | You 've done it a thousand times already , but you do it again , just for something to do . |
4 | Listening , as you become more comfortable and you become , you 've done it a few times you know what you 're gon na have to say and then you , you er , you listen more carefully to the answers . |
5 | That 's right I know , but see this is , you see this is the point I 'm trying to make to you , you can quite happily do it in your own way , but the problem is you do n't know what you 're doing , right , and , and if you actually knew what you were doing and well aware of what you 're doing you would do it a hundred times better and you would do it all the time , right |
6 | Let's see if we can do it a different way . |
7 | If we get first division people I 'll do it a different way to him if I had to end up with second division people and the responsibilities they take on board will very much reflect that and the same surely should happen to the field sales force erm their abilities are reflected in in what sort of activities we give them and by looking at the people we have we then put together a team to most accurately attack whatever we want to do . |
8 | Most young people who try sniffing ( and remember , those who try sniffing are only a small minority ) will only do it a few times and stop without any help from adults . |
9 | And he 's got ta do it a few times , so then the cost becomes and , and you like let's be fair , we 've had summers where it 's the weeds er the weeds have n't grown , but you get a wet summer and the weather warms and the wet and the weeds go peooow up like that . |
10 | By shutting this door to exclude fear , even if you have to do it a million times , you are making the statement that you decide not to let that thought feed on your life 's energy . |
11 | The director wants you to do it a certain way , and either you do n't feel that he 's right or you feel that he 's right but he 's forcing you to be a square peg in a round hole . |
12 | Or maybe maybe that is n't the first thing you want to do , if you want to do it a different way , do it whichever makes more sense to you . |
13 | The reaction from the other side of the table is different because you are a woman , they expect you to do it a different way . ’ |
14 | To make the assumption that JustText was only capable of producing text would be to do it a grave disservice . |
15 | She would have liked to do it a further time , after luncheon , but Alexandra was adamant . |
16 | I think my , to do it a little bit harder |
17 | Head and shoulders , knees and toes , knees and toes , head and shoulders , knees and toes , knees and toes , and eyes and ears and mouth and nose , head and shoulders , knees and toes , me and he , I have to do it a little bit faster |
18 | and , and play he said , and then try it for a , but he said you 've got to do it a few times |
19 | It is a frightening experience , and I have never heard of anyone doing it a second time . |
20 | Dave said , ‘ The most frightening part of the jump was climbing out of the plane and having to crawl along the wing before jumping , but I look forward to doing it a second time just for fun ! ’ |
21 | Because I started doing it a long time ago |
22 | this boy who 'd been doing it a few years . |
23 | I 'm doing it a funny way this time . |
24 | Why do something the hard way when you can save time and temper by doing it an easy way ? |
25 | When he did it a second time , I put the light out . |
26 | You did it a long time before anybody else . |
27 | In my , in my day probably someone did it a little bit off that , different |
28 | They also did it a few years ago with their then hottest act , Alexander O'Neal . |
29 | do it a good turn if you could er |
30 | Although the majority of weakly electric fish , in both the African and the South American groups , give their electric discharges in discrete pulses and are called " pulse " species , a minority of species in both groups do it a different way and are called " wave " species . |