Example sentences of "had do it [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The railways had done it to the canals and now it was to happen in turn to the railways .
2 They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor .
3 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 .
4 Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad .
5 Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist .
6 But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’
7 But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’
8 Well I , I had done it at the interval .
9 He had done it in the street in front of everyone .
10 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 .
11 ‘ Our children had to do it in the Cultural Revolutiion ten years later .
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