Example sentences of "it do [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can get it done for five pence there . |
| 2 | That old smarty pants Dr Samuel Johnson was fond of saying that a woman preaching was like a dog standing on hind legs — it was not done well but it was surprising to find it done at all . |
| 3 | Why is it done at all ? |
| 4 | As a matter of fact , most of the London publishers send their printing to Edinburgh to get it done at half cost by sweated labour . |
| 5 | Would n't have it done at this stage anyway . |
| 6 | Do you know with this model , those paints with got to get it done by this Friday . |
| 7 | Or mayhap ‘ t would be more pleasurable to watch it done by another . |
| 8 | The first is to have it done by local government . |
| 9 | They welcome a new investigation , but they want it done by independent officers . |
| 10 | Nor was it done by some highly-paid red-braced executive . |
| 11 | And I 'm saying to Mrs Jones , yeah I 'll do whatever , y'know , I used to have some good contacts with Estate Agents and that and they would just ring me up and say will you come and do so and so and we want it done within six or seven days , y'know , a house that they were selling , that they 'd want completely doing from top to bottom inside and out . |
| 12 | The job takes forty eight man hours , and I want it done in two hours . |
| 13 | Well two gangs are gon na get it done in four hours . |
| 14 | we want it done in both directions , there 's no way you can do it on the main line |
| 15 | If you wanted it done in three hours ? |
| 16 | They might have it done in white black and wood . |
| 17 | If you want it done in half the time , you 've got to have twice as many people . |
| 18 | it done in this weather , too , has n't |
| 19 | Her mother had played war when she had had it done like that . |
| 20 | Now what is particularly interesting is if you take that and you try and date when these various things were done , and if I ask questions why was it done like this . |
| 21 | If you give it more insects than it needs , what does it do with these extra insects ? |
| 22 | Nor is it to do with rarified ascetical exercises , a ‘ feet off the ground ’ spirituality . |
| 23 | The Giral government , consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans , was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation . |
| 24 | There were genuine reasons for doubting its accuracy — the issues of joint cost allocation were ( and remain ) problematical — hut the senior management response to it ( they insisted it be withdrawn even from internal circulation ) betrayed a greater devotion to the cause of suppressing criticism than it did to that of searching for the truth . |
| 25 | The oil price rises of October 1973 came as a serious blow to Bonn , as it did to other Western European nations . |
| 26 | With Rufus it did to some extent come back again and all he could do was grind it down and soldier on . |
| 27 | It did to some extent aggregate demands and turn them into viable policy issues , and it also acted as a downward channel of communication , explaining and rationalizing government policies in the hope of their greater acceptance by the citizens . |
| 28 | Their task is to so translate the text that it speaks with the original intention and force as it did to those originally addressed . |
| 29 | But , as a concept determining the political and educational programme , it remained rather vague , standing as it did for all manner of virtues before a spectrum of interests . |
| 30 | This it did for all but 150 years , becoming one of the best known and best loved of all our rural branch lines . ’ |