Example sentences of "do it a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It might be a bit awkward when you start off but once you 've done it a bit it gets easier . |
2 | Yeah , well I think they could have done it a bit quicker do n't you ? |
3 | Well I think , I would have thought they could have done it a bit quicker , the bathroom , if they wanted to . |
4 | ‘ Well , I 've only done it a couple of times as you know . |
5 | Well , we 've done it a couple of times before . |
6 | Let me do it a minute . |
7 | You 've got a captive audience there why the hell do n't you do it a sheet why do n't you give them a programme for the next three months exactly what is happening . |
8 | And you think , Well hang on let's just do it a bit of common sense . |
9 | It gets hard work and er someone comes along and says well can we do it a bit quicker ? |
10 | I 'm prepared to pay but I 'll have to do it , just let me do it a bit a week . |
11 | Let's do it a bit faster , ready ? |
12 | say , oh well we 'll do it a week on Friday and that week on Friday never comes . |
13 | You 're saying I can do it a lot better than that . |
14 | It would n't do it a lot of good , no exactly . |
15 | I bet you could do it an emergency though . |
16 | but I , I do n't know er whether I could do it an hour or not . |
17 | But I do n't really want to compete in that world ; I want to do it a bit differently , something a bit more personal . |
18 | Batty used to do it a bit , but is more of a solid player and these days tends to calm things down . |
19 | They like to do it a bit but they really ca n't sustain it because ultimately there 's a , there 's a call for action , a demand for action . |
20 | The law then pretends it 's a waif or stray and that you 're doing it a favour , and all is forgiven . |
21 | Instead of doing it a bit at a time , we can just multiply it . |
22 | I think you 're doing it a bit roughly Tim . |
23 | I have a Goniopora coral and my Clownfish lives in it as if it were an anemone , which is not doing it a lot of good . |
24 | I 've got two thirds of back and I 've been doing it a month . |
25 | Emor was a lot of things , but to call it a game was doing it an injustice . |
26 | ‘ Did it a purpose … saw him , Paddy … ’ |
27 | 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 |
28 | did it a year ago |
29 | ‘ Somebody did it a while back , ’ Robinson said . |
30 | So I did it a lot . |