Example sentences of "to do it [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm allowed to do it once the nails have begun to grow round and underneath their toes . |
| 2 | If you have yet to record a scene which will end the tape in a suitable way — maybe a farewell wide shot of the whole park , or of people beginning to pack up and go home — now is the time to do it before the battery goes completely and the camcorder switches itself off . |
| 3 | There is no right or wrong way to do it and the timing is never easy or ideal . |
| 4 | The country did n't have the will to do it and the politicians did n't have the will to do it . |
| 5 | They chose Guy Fawkes ' night to do it and the gesture went unnoticed — he found a lesson even in this . |
| 6 | One of you 's got grievance and you want something done , there is something that you want done and the other person , is the person you want to do it or the person who 's got a part to play . |
| 7 | One apparent stumbling block to mounting more research is that we lack qualified people to do it or the resources to employ or deploy them , but as so often , a wider and less conventional look at the problem reveals one possible solution . |
| 8 | ‘ Personally , I do n't believe my uncle will be able to bring himself to do it when the moment actually comes . |
| 9 | Well it says if you have to do it when the television 's on , we never have the television off |
| 10 | Peter Zahn 23 , urged his wife to do it because the boy had spread stories about him , Teesside Crown Court was told . |
| 11 | Now that 's not what President Eisenhower wanted , I 've just read out this quotation , it 's the last thing I want to do he says but he 's driven to do it because the state governor refused to accept the arguments that , that Eisenhower put to him . |
| 12 | The people who had the imagination or ability to do it where the ones that could speak the languages , the ones that did n't |