Example sentences of "do it [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 But the people had done it to teach the man a lesson . ’
2 Can do it open the door do you understand ?
3 What it does not do it provide the user with any way of removing any viruses found .
4 So when 're you gon na tell him , when 're you gon na do it take the bull by the horns ?
5 But they were not doing it to supply the world 's newspapers and magazines with better pictures .
6 And then , and then did it , did it go the way someone suggested that , that , the you fell in love again , I mean Katie said
7 How did it affect the way the story about the fight is told , for example , or the uses to which the unofficial communique was put ?
8 This did not stop them from associating together nor did it stop the spread of a vague common ideology .
9 Not only did it meet the airline 's losses without the latter suffering any real penalty , but it enabled it to pursue its plans to take a 6 billion franc ( 37.5 per cent ) shareholding in the Belgian state-owned carrier Sabena , which was in an equally parlous financial state .
10 I mean , in those , those time things that you did , those time box , did it show the self-discipline ?
11 Nor , conversely , did it enable the planning figures to reflect the government 's stance on public service pay since then .
12 Did it improve the lot of 17th Century women ?
13 Did it break the agreement of joint publication ?
14 She stated , ‘ I did it to stop the child crying .
15 If so , did it make the rest of the winter any warmer ?
16 The debate had no practical importance , nor did it influence the direction and methods of further research .
17 Nor did it prevent the preservation of this category in the language of special education many years after its legal obliteration , in the acronym MLD ( moderate learning difficulties ) , used in many of the same contexts for many of the same purposes , but without , as yet , the abusive tone that came to be associated with its predecessor .
18 Nor did it want the return of a population that would dissent from the Zionist identity of the state and threaten it demographically .
19 Yet the statute did not in practice provide the absolute ban which it seemed to promise , nor did it deprive the church of acquisitions .
20 Perhaps he did it to please the Patriarch .
21 There 's an even more er perhaps er pertinent er point on this that er that did it did the congress system actually exist in any meaningful way .
22 Why then , if the government dealt with the problem of peasant justice at the time of the emancipation , did it reconstruct the empire 's legal system in 1864 ?
23 Nor did it escape the notice of other critics of the Association that a handbill , lengthily entitled " A Dialogue between Tom and Harry on the Duties of Seamen and the Just and Equitable Rewards for their Services " , was in practice nothing more or less than a statement of union policy on bargaining with shipowners and published in this form only to avoid the appearance that the Standard was more than an innocent friendly society .
24 Not only did it designate the nature and appearance of crime , but it also reappeared as causally implicated : in both classical criminology and the new deviance perspective , the amount of crime was primarily a function of the operations of the criminal justice system .
25 Both , in tandem , have transformed who does what and where they do it to create the wealth governments now seek .
26 Does it cover the sort of topics which interest you ?
27 Does it measure the distance it has swum from the start-point , for instance , or does it orient by use of the environmental cues given by the objects visible on the walls surrounding the tank ?
28 conclude that the data from the studies of internal validity show that the test does not adequately integrate the eleven subtests , nor does it explain the relationship between the subtests or between subtest performance and other relevant behaviour .
29 It punishes er how does it punish the ego ?
30 Not only does it avoid the need for each service to ‘ re-invent the wheel ’ by working in isolation , it also forges closer links — invaluable at a time when the world is becoming smaller and ‘ international standards ’ loom .
  Next page