Example sentences of "do it [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what they had done it had a big slab there and it had got on it er The World 's Largest Slate Mine , and perhaps you 've seen it yourself they 've rubbed the T off and they put V and somebody 's done a very good job of it er in the same paint and everything . |
| 2 | That a gentleman should do it showed an uncommon understanding of the difficulties involved in running businesses with too much debt outstanding . |
| 3 | In so doing it reversed an earlier commitment , made in 1988 in the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster [ see pp. 36161 ; 34831 ] , to begin the shut-down of the country 's 12 nuclear reactors in 1995 . |
| 4 | In so doing it suggested a small but distinct improvement on that model : the party-list vote should be the first on the ballot paper , not the second as it is in West Germany , and the constituency vote should come second instead of first . |
| 5 | She yeah , that 's her her nickname , cos she was quite big and she played the nurse in Romeo and Juliet in the season on Stratford on Avon and she did it using a Welsh accent because she thought Shakespeare , having coming from quite near the Welsh Border Country might well have had might well have had a Welsh nurse . |
| 6 | She yeah , that 's her her nickname , cos she was quite big and she played the nurse in Romeo and Juliet in the season on Stratford on Avon and she did it using a Welsh accent because she thought Shakespeare , having coming from quite near the Welsh Border Country might well have had might well have had a Welsh nurse . |
| 7 | The new Fowler operation had certainly made use of the sales information , but this did not involve any breach of contract by Mr Fowler and the other former employees , nor did it show an actionable conspiracy . |
| 8 | or did it mean a few more ‘ Hail Marys ’ |
| 9 | Did it make a big difference . |
| 10 | And did it make a big difference ? |
| 11 | Did the population remain more or less static after the dramatic decline in the second half of the fourteenth century , or did it make a rapid recovery from the first wave of epidemics ? |
| 12 | Did it represent a significant move to the right by the people of the United States presaging a deep rooted realignment of electoral forces favouring the Republican party ? |
| 13 | ) Or did it reveal a conservative attitude at the heart of a movie that is dressed up in hippie garb ? |
| 14 | ‘ He did it like a decent horse , and is still improving , ’ said Nicholson , whose career is on the crest of a wave at present . |
| 15 | Did it have a lasting effect on you Mollie ? |
| 16 | Nor did it have a consistent history in the sixteenth century . |
| 17 | Was it purely physical or did it have a psychosomatic dimension , as her sudden and dramatic recovery could indicate ? |
| 18 | Not only did it have a mismatched neck and body , but the scratchplate was black , and therefore from the '70s . |
| 19 | Helen watched her own face swim above these rich and glowing caverns ; did it have a lean and hungry look , deprived , excluded ? |
| 20 | Did it have an exterior handle ? |
| 21 | Rain said if Maureen did it suggested a powerful reason for her certainty that her father had died for political reasons . |
| 22 | Did it take a long time ? |
| 23 | At what point erm did i er did it become an official dispute , how how at the point of becoming an official dispute ? |
| 24 | Er , a few handlebars and whatever else and , but , but but do n't do it like the British bikers , do it like an American bar , so it can be cleaned and |
| 25 | Dentan cites an informant who asked rhetorically ‘ what good does it do an unhappy person to have another person upset ? ’ ( 1968 : 64 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ The Labour Party will have to very quickly make up its mind : does it want a Labour Party clearly led by Neil Kinnock , as I do , or one run by Ron Todd ? |
| 27 | ‘ Is your question one of personal curiosity , or does it represent an official line of enquiry ? ’ countered Toby , crossing his skeletal ankles . |
| 28 | When does it pay a young male to remain with his companions operating a preferred strategy of delayed takeover ? |
| 29 | Does it strike an answering chord with your mother ? |
| 30 | Does it provide a new way of paying for welfare in the 1990s ? |