Example sentences of "do it [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had done it with consummate aplomb . |
| 2 | Have you noticed I 've done it with Loving Care ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Burton did the job on screen as efficiently , one felt , as he would have done it in real life . |
| 5 | We felt we could only do it through local pressure , using the media and direct action ’ , a member of the group recalled . |
| 6 | ‘ You can do it with golden syrup tins , ’ Gaily said , ‘ easier than with coconuts . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They 've er they 've done fairly well there with Perhaps if it 's happen to be a time when I 'm busy Richard you might do it as vice chairman . |
| 9 | That 's right so you can do it on leaded light , you can do it on handles , but either you lay it on the customer right , which do you prefer ? |
| 10 | If the family were going to take on the outside world , they 'd do it in eccentric style , his father had implied . |
| 11 | Instead of smelting the ore with charcoal in slow processes aided by waterwheels , they needed to do it with cheap coke produced by the rapidly expanding coal-mining industry . |
| 12 | But we 'll have to do it with cold water and the yard broom . ’ |
| 13 | But they could possibly , they surely must be able to do it through natural wastage to some extent . |
| 14 | ‘ They just want to do the job they are paid and trained to do and they want to do it in suitable clothing , ie in uniform . ’ |
| 15 | One minute We 're welcome to collaborate with the person next to you , you do n't have to do it in splendid isolation . |
| 16 | And it 's not everybody 's job to do that , so ordinary people took the jobs as shunters and could be taught how to do it in short time , if they were average and er in good health . |
| 17 | Erm I 've mentioned accessibility , I would raise that again , I 'm a non-driver erm it 's easy to hop in a car and get from here to Chelmsford , if you want to do it by public transport it is a nightmare erm the meeting here on , on Monday which was very poorly attended , and I understand that 's been the pattern right across the area , and I do n't think the health authority is that interested in finding out what people have thought to be honest ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 'm not doing it for monetary reward or because I 'm asked to ; I 'm doing it because I feel I have to do it . |
| 20 | I 'm not doing it for monetary reward or because I 'm asked to ; I 'm doing it because I feel I have to do it . |
| 21 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 22 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 23 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 24 | Clare told me he 'd taken rather a lot of convincing — once he 'd determined to do the slightly naff champagne-pyramid stunt in the first place — not to try doing it with proper champagne flutes but to use the perry glasses like everybody else did ; too tall , too unstable otherwise . |
| 25 | our society has become so complicated and our representative system of government so remote to many fellow citizens , that there has to be an alternative way of expressing dissent other than the constitutional way of doing it through representative government . |
| 26 | It is what children do quite naturally and in many under-developed countries people carry on doing it into old age . |
| 27 | Not like doing it by remote control , having Jem set up a trip-wire . |
| 28 | Doing far more than we can reasonably do and if you like , doing it by very definition , badly , or worse than it could have done . |
| 29 | oh yeah the people , matey 's walking along and he 's going like this and he 's pulling it as he 's doing it , he says and he 's doing it in proper time like that , but with one arm going he 's twiddling it , he 's doing it , he says no my feet are exactly like that , very effective but you can actually get fined for loosing them , you have to pay for them and its like a real , shooting sticks as well , you do n't tend to carry erm , these pay sticks you carry them like the old shooting sticks , the old you know ? |
| 30 | And they did it for 20-year-old centre-half Darren Salton , who is still in a coma and on a life support machine after Thursday 's road crash in which Paul Telfer was also injured . |