Example sentences of "do this [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Constance has done this on the rebound , ’ Nora continued . |
| 2 | We could have done this without the Support Force but it would have taken longer to do . ’ |
| 3 | Would they have done this in the knowledge that they were guilty ? |
| 4 | There was an implication that certain auditors ( no names mentioned ) had not done this in the past . |
| 5 | Now I 've actually done this in the past . |
| 6 | ‘ How could you do this to the vicar ? ’ she demanded . |
| 7 | You can do this to the extent of saying as Agatha Christie ( who abandoned Hercule Poirot 's charmingly bumbling Captain Hastings quite early ) does in One , Two , Buckle my Shoe ; " For the first time Hercule Poirot was looking at the case the right way up . " |
| 8 | You know , you can do this with the back ! |
| 9 | You may do this with the juice of plums , gooseberries , apricots , figs , or any juicy fruit . " |
| 10 | Now is you remember last time we said we would n't do this at the minute because we erm we 've got erm a |
| 11 | X can do this at the time of giving the goods to Y or at any later stage . |
| 12 | It 's we 're very conscious that erm the costs that we 've incurred we need to keep strapped down to a minimum , but we have to manage a forty million pound organisation and you can not do this on the back of an envelope . |
| 13 | You can do this off the machine if your stitches are long enough . |
| 14 | To shorten the odds on reproducing itself it must produce a significant crop of attractive fruit , but it can not do this without the framework on which to hang and parade its wares . |
| 15 | Once you can do this without the aid of the locator , you will have the satisfaction of knowing that your own skills alone will enable you to make use of this last-ditch method of rescue . |
| 16 | It will feel the need to express its dominance and will do this in the manner of a ‘ top cat ’ . |
| 17 | If you ca n't do this in the shop ask the shopkeeper whether you can try them out at home . |
| 18 | I 'll do this in the lecture . |
| 19 | But immediately monitoring is coming into play here , if I was your manager , but the computer will do this by the way , but your manager will spot that and say , have you made those fifty calls . |
| 20 | If he does n't do this within the deadline period you then have a year and a day in which to ask the court for an extract decree to be issued . |
| 21 | Both parties accepted that the court had jurisdiction to do this despite the expert clause . |
| 22 | Unrealised by himself , he has in fact been striving to do this since the dawn of civilisation . |
| 23 | Not only should the parent feel able to express upset at the child 's behaviour but equally the child needs to be able to do this towards the parent . |
| 24 | i am certainly in favour of questioning , both on my part and that of the patient , but it is better to do this towards the end of the consultation when the regression itself is over . |
| 25 | It has been possible to do this with the help of donations from Crisis — the national charity for single homeless people ; the Law Society ; the London Boroughs Grants C Committee and the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux . |
| 26 | Under a 1937 agreement , PAA was allowed to operate two flights a week to the UK : it continued to do this during the war years , unmatched by BOAC . |
| 27 | The accountant will be happy to do this on the band 's behalf . |
| 28 | It decided to do this through the dock company , a wholly owned subsidiary which was incorporated on 24 March 1982 . |
| 29 | If they were able to do this over the course of the whole meal-time they received a sticker on the chart . |
| 30 | Do you want to do this in the tutorial ? |