Example sentences of "do [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , I could do them on the train to the City some morning every week . ’ |
| 2 | And then we come to the sixth race which is the eight forty five , well I 'm going to go for Angie Baby here in trap three , she 's erm a little bit of a kidder but she might have the legs of these , as long as something leads her , she 'll come and erm try and do them on the line , so it 's Angie Baby for me there , erm Ruby Blue in trap six is a danger . |
| 3 | No you can do them at the front . |
| 4 | Well I 'll leave ca I do n't wan na do them till the summer , it will be too bloody wet now . |
| 5 | You know it 's in in the form that we 've done them in the past . |
| 6 | Almost all the murders that the police solve in real life are either dealt with in a matter of hours ( the husband done it with the kitchen knife ) or as a result of long , long , tedious inquiries , mostly house-to-house , the taking of fingerprints and the elimination of perhaps thousands of marginal suspects . |
| 7 | If only he could have done it with the Palace ! |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 9 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 10 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 11 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 12 | So , have you done it for the deadline ? |
| 13 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 14 | She done it for the burial club money . |
| 15 | He ought to have done it through the college got it cheaper . |
| 16 | But then we should have got we we sh We should have done it on the way there , but we forget . |
| 17 | if you done it on the night mum , we would n't have this |
| 18 | Well I , I had done it at the interval . |
| 19 | I could n't have done it without the help my husband gave |
| 20 | It is said that 50 per cent of people in Basildon read the Sun , and the appalling ‘ Terry ’ Dicks also claims ‘ I could n't have done it without the Sun ’ . |
| 21 | Oh , Christ , the cat 's done it outside the tray again … |
| 22 | Could have done it from the front . |
| 23 | I 've never never done it in the winter . |
| 24 | For page one three four and T U P E , yes , well we have done quite an extensive document , there 's been a lot done about T U P E in the public sector we 've done it in the government sector and given guidelines , and T U P E , while it is like you rightly say , a step forward , it 's not the total answer we need something better , but it does level out the playing field that the cowboys can find it difficult in and we as a union are advocating to our members where there is a transfer taking place , whether there 's a change to your employment challenge it and we will support that challenge with the necessary legal interpretation if so . |
| 25 | The PSA has always done it in the past . |
| 26 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 27 | but if they are wankers nothing you do , and including , I mean I 've done it in the past , slowed right down and nine times out of ten it jus it just incenses them to drive even closer . |
| 28 | People have done it in the past and have regretted it . |
| 29 | On neither occasion could he say why he had done what he did , nor had he done it in the company of other pupils he wanted to impress . |
| 30 | Three of you are unlocked and you come down and there are prison officers standing everywhere — to me that was stupid , because if the women wanted to riot they would have done it in the dining hall there and then . |