Example sentences of "do it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never done it with that |
| 2 | He had done it with consummate aplomb . |
| 3 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 4 | so they 've done it with nine then eh ? |
| 5 | Yes , I 've done the mandate workshop , yes , and I 've done it with other groups too . |
| 6 | I 've done it with other women . |
| 7 | The truth was that the two women between them had raised the nine million dollars needed to make The Dawn of Dreams , and they had done it with such consummate feminine grace that the handsome , silver-haired head of the family did not quite understand that his title of producer was merely honorary . |
| 8 | Somehow a favourite dress or toy of Paige 's would be damaged , but she had done it with such guile that her parents could never be sure it was intentional . |
| 9 | Have you noticed I 've done it with Loving Care ? |
| 10 | They 've done it with real people ? |
| 11 | But I know that 's what it was you know because the wee lassie done it with this special electronic thing |
| 12 | I 'd have done it with minimalist technology ; say , beans swelling in water and lifting a diaphragm and bare wire to a contact for the time-fuse . |
| 13 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 14 | We have n't done it for two years . |
| 15 | And I 'm not working next year anyway cos I 've done it for two years on the run and I 'm not doing it next year . |
| 16 | ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world . |
| 17 | I 've done it for all kinds of things , I mean , I , I cook vegetables in them in it and I warm up |
| 18 | Of course it was not certain either that Zoser had done it or that , if he had done it , he had done it for sectarian reasons . |
| 19 | Each one of the TV companies would have done it for free and pooled the material . |
| 20 | He would n't have done it for most people . |
| 21 | So you see they were having a difference of opinion over that and he 's saying you should n't , you should 've left it all to me and she says I 've done it for last fifty year and , you know , all this . |
| 22 | He says I have done it for twenty eight years and it has n't had any effect . |
| 23 | I 've done it for seven years . |
| 24 | He had done it on one of the western stretches of the Central Line from North Acton to Ealing Broadway , a rather more hair-raising experience than this . |
| 25 | And there 's no use getting in the exam on Thursday and say ah well I 'm afraid I 've not done it on that arm so erm lost |
| 26 | I should never have done it on that day . ’ |
| 27 | and you need more so really you needed to have done it on this line . |
| 28 | but that was on tens , I 've done it on tens |
| 29 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 30 | Not satisfaction at quality of whatever I had done , but simply at having done it at all . |