Example sentences of "to do [pron] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice it should be easier to do it the standard way |
| 2 | Now we could n't do it anyway next year , we 'll have to do it the following year as we 've heard earlier . |
| 3 | She was used enough to being left behind while Gloria went off , but it seemed more dangerous to do it the other way around , for her to leave Gloria behind . |
| 4 | I would hate to do it the other way . |
| 5 | ‘ Alec , ’ I said , a little desperately , ‘ I 've got to do it the only way I know how to . |
| 6 | Now I want you to do it the hard way , I mean you would n't normally do it this way but when you 've got letters in you 've got no choice . |
| 7 | We 're having to do it the hard way . ’ |
| 8 | Alan Ball admitted his men had it all to do after his men crashed to South Africa , the Australian wicket went for a duck as a defending champion slumped said we are going to have to do it the hard way now , we just did n't play very , we did n't get it together against New Zealand in the first match and today we were never in the picture , our brothers never really had a chance of any attempt of a hundred and seventy , but full credit to South Africa they are a rate , a better to side |
| 9 | So she had to do it the slow way . |
| 10 | Or your last option is to do what the good folk at the training agency have done , which is they claim that the today marker is not erm , sturdy enough , so they superglue the er , the two markers together , to make it thicker . |
| 11 | " A Great Russian " put out a flysheet in St Petersburg in July 1861 which argued that " The educated classes must take the conduct of affairs out of the hands of the incapable government and into their own " ; otherwise , " patriots will be compelled to call upon the people to do what the educated classes refuse to do " . |
| 12 | They have full jurisdiction to say : ‘ We are satisfied that there is a nuisance here , but we are not going to order you to do what the local authority say you are to do because we think it can be done in another and cheaper way or in a more effective way ’ . |
| 13 | That is to do what the Royal Family has always done supremely well , to meet foreign dignitaries as Britain 's ambassadors . |
| 14 | The teams waited in company ranks , to do what the British infantry has always excelled at : firing aimed shots faster and more accurately than the enemy , in any conditions . |