Example sentences of "do it [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | We do things like this because we have always done it that way . |
2 | In the social dialectology carried out in Belfast , however , quantification was necessary : if it had been possible to do the work without quantifying , we would have done it that way ! |
3 | But it would have been simpler to have done it that way I think . |
4 | But then I found that they had n't done it that way . |
5 | But the essence of your answer to the questions that have been asked over the last twenty minutes or so , is we have n't done it that way . |
6 | When we did all work together , all the different pieces worked together , and you could just have a card each and you could have just done it that way . |
7 | Should n't of done it that way . |
8 | Because we 've always done it that way . |
9 | Donna saw it in the rear-view mirror , convinced and elated that she 'd done it crippling damage . |
10 | ‘ But if those criminals were determined to kill the boy , and it seems with hindsight that they were , they could have done it any time , before or after receiving the diamonds , in the cellar , on the road or on some lonely Yorkshire moorland . |
11 | The price for the first seems high and for the second low for a house with six acres and a lodge , but it used to be the headquarters of British Coal 's opencast mining subsidiary , which can not have done it any good . |
12 | Yes , I done it last night |
13 | Oh , then I ought to have done it last night . |
14 | Should of done it last night when it was empty then . |
15 | I 've been mean I 've been , I would of done it last weekend , but , I do n't , I had a load of washing and it depends |
16 | You done it last year did n't you ? |
17 | The other thing is I mean , erm , the , the Trone did it a couple of years ago , they have n't done it this year they |
18 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |
19 | William Waldegrave has now been appointed his lieutenant in the grinding battle within Whitehall , against warriors who will doubtless counterattack with the saddest words of public administration : ‘ We 've always done it this way . ’ |
20 | So in progressing through there , and I 'm sorry we have n't done it this way , we end up in terms of the County Council figure of nine seven hundred for Greater York , possible er provision from , collectively from the districts of about fourteen hundred , fifteen hundred short . |
21 | Sort of , how do you feel about du du du du du du du y'know sort of yes definitely to no not all or y'know kind of does n't bother me to very angry or something like that but given that you 've done it this way , I think it works reasonably well . |
22 | Well I have done it this way even for trivial things , because I understood that the committee had to approve the changes and if as I said it seem to me erm , wasteful to get er , Monica to make the changes when they might not be accepted . |
23 | Well , I have been and gone and done it this time . |
24 | You 've really done it this time . |
25 | ‘ I 've really done it this time , have n't I ? ’ |
26 | " You 've done it this time … |
27 | Your lad 's really done it this time . |
28 | Yes Dublin Sports and Social Committee has really done it this time ! |
29 | However , because of the way it relates in this work , they are only fifty percent present in my sibling , so any sacrifice of gene me er , it 's not my actual inquest for your finding of the problems , the reason is , this is something we did last term in , in penaltriusm theory , so the others have got an advantage over you , they 've already done it this time . |
30 | Oh right oh what do these people do it all week ? |