Example sentences of "to do it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've had to do it during the weekend , a distance of eighty five miles , and it goes across five counties . |
| 2 | ’ These people are willing to do it at the beginning of the night when they 're sober ’ she says . |
| 3 | it 's , I ca n't see any other way to do it at the moment , I mean probably when I |
| 4 | They get some man to do it at the moment . |
| 5 | I think I did , I thought about that but I ca n't afford to do it at the moment there look see you can get the , the L ones the double seat ones and the little ones look |
| 6 | better than not being able to afford to do it at the moment , |
| 7 | Not just for yourself , you 've got to do it for the rest . |
| 8 | They undertook to do it for the whole of the Caldmore area did they ? |
| 9 | Appeal organisers would like anyone thinking of holding a coffee morning or jumble sale in aid of a worthy cause to do it for the day care centre . |
| 10 | Appeal organisers would like anyone else thinking of holding a coffee morning or jumble sale in aid of a worthy cause to do it for the day care centre . |
| 11 | A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do |
| 12 | Appeal organisers would like anyone thinking of holding a coffee morning or jumble sale in aid of a worthy cause to do it for the centre . |
| 13 | Unfortunately it 's chosen to do it with the Disc . |
| 14 | That is what we intend to do and we intend to do it on the basis of the criteria erm that we have set out . |
| 15 | But they also say in the alternative that that since the plaintiffs themselves were at this time by mid to late October of nineteen eighty five , not ready or able to complete it would have been improper erm for the defendant to advise the plaintiffs to serve a special notice to complete and my Lord the question that therefore arises er whether , even if that were correct , er and it 's not admitted that it is , that exonerates the defendants from given the advice er and whether they should still have advised the plaintiff erm of the opportunity which was open to him , that the plaintiff could if necessary take that course himself or be advised to go er elsewhere and be advised independently is er this is , this the point of the matter which he regarded as improper and was not willing to do it on the plaintiff 's behalf . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ I am doing it my way and if I am to be able to beat Alain Prost I want to do it on the track by out-driving him , not by any other means . |
| 17 | Well I 'll have to do it over the weekend . |
| 18 | This is an appeal deriving from a politically specific stance which is liberal in outlook , implying the importance of improving living conditions for the poor , and from the ability of the aware and self-critical planner to do it through the state machinery . |
| 19 | But Mark would like to do it without the company ! |
| 20 | ‘ It is bad enough doing that to the uninitiated , but to do it to the Secretary of State is really beyond the pale — it 's quite pathetic . ’ |
| 21 | It 's sad , you know ’ — she turned about and looked at Peggy ‘ It is sad when a mother outshines a daughter , and aims to do it to the extent of trying to fascinate her son-in-law . |
| 22 | Well , children can be allowed to express their anxieties verbally and to learn perhaps from the adults ' modelling around them that to talk about these things in moderation is perfectly acceptable erm but not to do it to the extent or to allow children to perhaps watch the news coverage to the extent that they become over excited and are not able to contain their own feelings of anxiety about loss and damage and death and separation from parents and significant adults . |
| 23 | I 've only got to do it to the end of today so , I do n't think I 'm going to use twenty do you ? |
| 24 | Do I have to do it to the end ? |
| 25 | And might be able to do it before the weekend perhaps |
| 26 | He had chosen to do it before the statue of Eros at Piccadilly Circus . |
| 27 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 28 | well you 've got to do it in the winter so |
| 29 | He said he learnt to do it in the field during the Falklands War . |
| 30 | He is , after all , the Chairman of that committee but certainly I advised him against that and I thought it was totally wrong er to do it in the way he did and I , I think it was a shame for this Council that he , that he did go ahead , but there you are . |