Example sentences of "do [pers pn] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had done it with consummate aplomb . |
| 2 | Yes , I 've done the mandate workshop , yes , and I 've done it with other groups too . |
| 3 | I 've done it with other women . |
| 4 | Have you noticed I 've done it with Loving Care ? |
| 5 | They 've done it with real people ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I ca n't do mine with little one , I got like I 'll |
| 8 | ‘ You can do it with golden syrup tins , ’ Gaily said , ‘ easier than with coconuts . |
| 9 | encouraged or put under pressure erm , I would think that with a lot more talking we might actually be able to work out something between surrogate mothers and nurturing mothers , they can do it with open adoption , other countries were learning how to do it . |
| 10 | Instead of smelting the ore with charcoal in slow processes aided by waterwheels , they needed to do it with cheap coke produced by the rapidly expanding coal-mining industry . |
| 11 | But we 'll have to do it with cold water and the yard broom . ’ |
| 12 | They 're certainly not doing it with other men ( only 3.6 per cent claim to have had homosexual intercourse ) , so can we presume yet again that men just like to say they do it more often . |
| 13 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 14 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 15 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 16 | Clare told me he 'd taken rather a lot of convincing — once he 'd determined to do the slightly naff champagne-pyramid stunt in the first place — not to try doing it with proper champagne flutes but to use the perry glasses like everybody else did ; too tall , too unstable otherwise . |
| 17 | There are different ways of doing it with different people erm who do share it . |
| 18 | We did it with Dangerous Lady , too , which was an amazing success for us last year [ it sold some 130,000 copies ] . |
| 19 | And if you did it with real panache , and with a sense of luxury , it was called Gran Turismo . |
| 20 | It 's perhaps perhaps easier to see it as the as the N As and the O Hs though okay or if we did it with sulphuric acid we 'd have hydrogen sulphate plus sodium hydroxide what 's that going to give us ? |
| 21 | Out of the corner of her mouth — and she did it with great flair — Sorrel said : |
| 22 | He managed to turn Llewelyn 's imposing new title , compounded of the old sacred name for a reassurance to the Welsh , and the added flourish for English ears that had scarcely heard of Aberffraw , into a satirical comment , but he did it with great delicacy . |
| 23 | ‘ Court proceedings could be long and drawn out , and how do you prove when a player went in for a tackle he did it with intent to harm his opponent ? |
| 24 | He had come to it relatively late in his short life , having dulled the joys of promiscuity , music and organization early on , and like everything else he took an interest in , he did it with terrifying brilliance . |
| 25 | Like the prophets of the Old Testament , she was compelled to reprove sinners , especially those in high places , such as the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and , like the prophets , she did it with immense tactlessness . |
| 26 | At least they do it with considerable wit . |
| 27 | When you have seen it done twice , and furthermore your mother does it with complete confidence and expects you to eat the result , then you are sure . |
| 28 | Anyone who has served with him at the Department — and I am talking not just about his present ministerial team — knows that he not only brings a greater degree of expertise to his job than anyone I can remember but does it with great inventiveness in terms of improving benefits and with an exceptional degree of compassion and , above all , integrity . |
| 29 | Persuading others to accept the hard financial facts of life is not usually a very popular job , but he does it with great tact and skill , and under his guidance I do believe that our deficit is under control , and that it will be reduced . |