Example sentences of "do it [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had done it with consummate aplomb . |
| 2 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 3 | Somehow a favourite dress or toy of Paige 's would be damaged , but she had done it with such guile that her parents could never be sure it was intentional . |
| 4 | Have you noticed I 've done it with Loving Care ? |
| 5 | I 'd have done it with minimalist technology ; say , beans swelling in water and lifting a diaphragm and bare wire to a contact for the time-fuse . |
| 6 | I should never have done it on that day . ’ |
| 7 | And there 's no use getting in the exam on Thursday and say ah well I 'm afraid I 've not done it on that arm so erm lost |
| 8 | and you need more so really you needed to have done it on this line . |
| 9 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 10 | If she could have wiped his memory as well as her own , she 'd have done it without any hesitation , and at whatever cost . |
| 11 | I 've always done it before half term ! |
| 12 | the ones who are , who have seen it all before , and done it from last year , because they had to split a smaller section of them up into the first year . |
| 13 | I I 've got to say that it 's somebody that 's got a personal project that has done it in one force ai n't it . |
| 14 | Burton did the job on screen as efficiently , one felt , as he would have done it in real life . |
| 15 | Well I suppose what 's but you see I do n't know whether she 's doing it that must be her that done it in that corner , cos he ai n't been in here ! |
| 16 | So can you er look at it in that light and you will see of course that and I can understand why Mr has done it in this way , he has actually broken down er his the approach to this to looking at this criterion , under the three heads , road , rail and bus . |
| 17 | Alright if we 've done it in this quarter |
| 18 | We felt we could only do it through local pressure , using the media and direct action ’ , a member of the group recalled . |
| 19 | So far as talking is concerned , they can only do it to each other . |
| 20 | You can do it to some extent through the public sector , but one of the worrying things I find about the present situation with this growth of generations , the clamp down on building — less than a hundred thousand houses , I think , completed in the U K last year — my estimate is that we should be building about two hundred and fifty thousand . |
| 21 | ‘ You can do it with golden syrup tins , ’ Gaily said , ‘ easier than with coconuts . |
| 22 | They got ta do it with one hand in their pocket . |
| 23 | Do I do it with that pencil thing of yours or with er Amber Clean |
| 24 | encouraged or put under pressure erm , I would think that with a lot more talking we might actually be able to work out something between surrogate mothers and nurturing mothers , they can do it with open adoption , other countries were learning how to do it . |
| 25 | Word reached Peter Wheeler , the Leicester coach , of a young lad at Wakefield , a full-back , a slick-running full-back at that , who not only could kerplonk the ball like a metronome between the posts but could do it with either foot . |
| 26 | I am not for one moment suggesting that you could do such a thing yourself because I think you would do it with more style and use a magnum of champagne . |
| 27 | Er that was n't er on competition though , th that was er an Intercity job which Birmingham said they could do it for that figure . |
| 28 | I can do it for one minute twenty seconds . |
| 29 | Sort of , you 've got your health knock out sixty seventy , right we can do it for another year . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't do it for any reason of self . ’ |