Example sentences of "do [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , as you say , I cover all the points but because you do n't do them in the right order perhaps you muck them up |
| 2 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 3 | Mum , look what I 've done Grumpy on done him , I 've done him in the right hat you see |
| 4 | Dampt disgrace that couple that done it in the Golden Divans . |
| 5 | ‘ We also know that if Vechey committed suicide he must have done it in the early hours , just before dawn . |
| 6 | Almost all of the higher earners and men with 10 or more partners have had oral sex with a woman , and it 's the men with a regular relationship and someone else on the side who are most likely to have done it in the past year . |
| 7 | Now it 's naughty with a capital N. So you do n't do it , or you do n't do it in the normal way , which is relying on somebody inside a company to tell you things . |
| 8 | If he can do it in the Baltic lands , he can do it elsewhere . |
| 9 | No , I wo n't do it then I 'll do it I 'll do it in the early evening when no one 's too drunk . |
| 10 | Why ca n't you do it in the front room then ? |
| 11 | If they can do it in the far North , surely I can do it in the South ? ’ |
| 12 | If they can do it in the far North , surely I can do it in the South ? |
| 13 | ‘ To get my 150th would be another landmark and it would be nice if I could do it in the Premier League . ’ |
| 14 | That , that 's a sensible kind of conclusion to draw and perhaps this would meet Kirsty 's point as well , because the what you might be tempted to say is look erm , in our cultures we have , we have absorbed from our cultures ways of seeing the world , bits about history and things restructure our thoughts and even when we try and do something new , I 'd say let's have a revolution everybody , put up your barricades , you know , actually we had some great fun in the sixties with that erm the , when this happens there 's a tendency to nevertheless do it in the traditional way , in other words although obviously the sixty eight revolution was about a completely different issue than the seventeen ninety eight revolution , it was very much later in history . |
| 15 | Everybody 's got ta do it in the long run . |
| 16 | I thought we 'd do it in the fresh air rather than in the car , cos it just means |
| 17 | And you could do that in the all the rest area , you could do it in the whole club to be honest . |
| 18 | and if you wan na do something slightly different then do it in a role play scenario with a manager or a senior adviser and er get their feedback accordingly but I 'd be te I would n't be tempted to do it in the real world . |
| 19 | To do it smoothly , to do it in the right time , you have to be physically very fit . |
| 20 | ‘ Our children had to do it in the Cultural Revolutiion ten years later . |
| 21 | Yes , yes , when Paddy tried to do ours in the flat need to use small screw drivers to make the , the . |
| 22 | But you see doing them in the isolated spot |
| 23 | ‘ The only difference between Lee and Roy Keane and David Hirst is that they are doing it in the Premier League . |
| 24 | if you 're gon na plan bare rooted trees and stuff you 've got ta be doing it in the dormant season , so you 're talking October , November possibly October . |
| 25 | Remember to slice the peppers into ribbons lengthways : if you do them in the usual way as rings they will be too curved to slide in easily . |
| 26 | So she did it in the early morning before the Men came , or in the warm evenings when the Zoo gates were shut . |
| 27 | I did it in the dull knowledge that there was no way I could get up that hill . |
| 28 | He did it in the classic manner , by pitching the ball well up and bowling very , very quickly , and the fact that he needed help from his colleagues for only two of those wickets shows just how accurate he was . |
| 29 | ‘ Tennents did it in the wrong way . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , they do it in the normal way usually . |