Example sentences of "do it [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loretta felt herself blush and her fury rose : she was equally angry with the man , who had done it to discomfit her , and herself , for reacting . |
| 2 | Cos there 's been a lot done , they 've all done it left their bikes in the car . |
| 3 | And I mean I think women tend to be inv having to cope with things like school and er and health and you know they 're a at the grass roots if you like of you know at the receiving end of you know say cuts in in services like that and bus services and just quality of rural life and I mean the quality of life in Blaenau is depopulation and unemployment and you know and and in a sense there is lot of scope for women to break down the barriers of you know cos it is true that the the Councillors they 're supposed to represent the people or whatever tend to be quite well to do they 've done it thank you very much and then oh you know they 've got the time on their hands and they tend to be men and s school ex school teachers ex You know and they 're not having to cope with really situations that go will put them in touch with what it 's like not to have a bus service or not to have proper health care and this sort of thing you know . |
| 4 | ‘ The signatures on those cheques to her were hers and she had done it to finance her drinking habit . ’ |
| 5 | We could have done it better ourselves . |
| 6 | ‘ We will do it to stop them making the poorest in society pay for their mistakes and their broken promises . ’ |
| 7 | you might do it to reassure me . |
| 8 | Which does n't mean that they 're gon na do it does it ? |
| 9 | Finally she solved the problem by agreeing to let Ted do it provided none of us told Mum and as long as Ted gave Jean a full report at the end of each day on what precisely was going on between Dad and Eva . |
| 10 | Did he do it to thwart his father ? |
| 11 | And er , and , and yo you can do it to keep it . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ We will do it to express our derision for this Treasury bench of limpets , clinging on to office after breaking every promise that got them into it . |
| 13 | right now let's see what we need to do it says we need to melt the margarine |
| 14 | I mean , ee , they do n't explain to you how they 're going to do it do they ? |
| 15 | Yeah cos no fucking no one wants to do it do they ? |
| 16 | The lesson of the porcupine quills ( and for an actual example of how not to do it read my Zen There was Murder , if after all these years you can find a copy ) is that any part of your book that you do not directly present to the reader ought to be thought out in imaginative terms , just as thoroughly as you have used your imagination to make whatever you have written fully credible . |
| 17 | Probably kill them , on the head well would be my problem to do it see myself coming off |
| 18 | That 's one way to do it say it 's for ducks . |
| 19 | The people who like got you to do it get your name and address and everything ? |
| 20 | Oh he wanted to do it did he ? |
| 21 | Well erm I said if you want me to do it let me know and I 'll come and do it but just make well she 's cancelled before because once she had n't got the money and |
| 22 | Learning through doing , you actually have to do it to learn anything , take risks , experiment … |
| 23 | ‘ You have to do it to prove you can hold a conversation and take part in physical activity at the same time . |
| 24 | And in those days we required the money and er often , very often we had to do it to strengthen our wages a bit . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll be watching the seasons change out of my dressing-room window : I 'm doing it to test my patience , ’ says Gordon , disappointed only that her love of travel must be momentarily put on hold . |
| 26 | But perhaps he was doing it to save me ? |
| 27 | It would be a criticism if I was doing it to impoverish myself ’ . |
| 28 | Adam had only heard one other make these sounds and when he first heard Anne make them his memory escape failed and those two nights were startlingly evoked , so disturbingly in fact that he had the terrible delusion that Anne was doing it to mock him . |
| 29 | Do n't answer , she adjured herself ; it is n't mandatory ; he 's only doing it to annoy you — then found she was totally incapable of being as rude as she wanted to be . |
| 30 | He was doing it to punish her . |