Example sentences of "did it [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they all did it apart from Chris who said urgh she always works us too hard ! |
| 2 | And we did it and we did it jointly for for security , that we agreed the figure |
| 3 | He did it carefully at first , only a handful at a time , saving every shilling made . |
| 4 | I never did like drag shows and I did n't want to spend the evening in the pub but I did it just to be with gay people . |
| 5 | ‘ We did it just to book all the bands we knew , ’ recalls Barbara Pendleton at her office in the Festival 's West London HQ . |
| 6 | More than half did it just for the thrill of sex with someone new . |
| 7 | You did it just for the delight of fishing . ’ |
| 8 | He did it just in time . |
| 9 | We did it simply by foreseeing the situation and starting the rundown early enough by stopping recruitment . |
| 10 | And they did it away from home after trailing 12–3 at half-time |
| 11 | So you not it it 's do you say , you 're not actually against , you do n't mind er you you would n't mind them doing what they 're doing if they did it away from here . |
| 12 | And and Bob did it here in Bishop 's Stortford but I do n't know whether he 's still I think he still does it because he was very committed . |
| 13 | AFTER his recordbreaking show with the bat last week , Mike Ness did it again with the ball this week in the Cheshire Cricket Association . |
| 14 | Well on mine she did it once , it did n't work so she did it again for free and then it all started breaking off . |
| 15 | tape on the it went and did it again on me now and it 's well and truly gone I 'll have to buy another one . |
| 16 | In the mid-Eighties , when Bacons were selling for half a million dollars , he did it again by selling a Bacon Pope belonging to Dufferin for over $1 million . |
| 17 | And then he did it again in 1944 , that time from east to west , the first man to make it across the top of Canada in both directions . |
| 18 | And I did it again in this case , with Downes . |
| 19 | Rentokil aims to raise pre-tax profits and earnings per share by at least 20 per cent a year — and easily did it again in 1992 . |
| 20 | I also kept my contacts and my work going during the golf season , even if I did it mostly by telephone . |
| 21 | I did it partly for aesthetic reasons ; partly to economize on the number of genes necessary ( if genes did n't exert mirror-image effects on the two sides of the tree , we 'd need separate genes for the left and the right sides ) ; and partly because I was hoping to evolve animal-like shapes , and most animal bodies are pretty symmetrical . |
| 22 | He had lost face , he had lost honour , yet now he flirted with the thought of murder , which was beyond all honour , and he did it solely for a woman . |
| 23 | I , I would n't honestly say that it , he did it deliberately to be honest . |
| 24 | No brickbats for that , for neither of them did it out of a sense of malice , but merely because they thought it was the right thing to do , and no doubt also because they believed , quite wrongly , that to instil a sense of guilt into me would ultimately be for my good , If I did what they thought was wrong then I was made to feel that someone , usually them , had suffered . |
| 25 | THE eavesdropping ex-bank manager who sold a tape of Princess Di 's lovey-dovey phone chat admitted yesterday that he did it out of greed . |
| 26 | Perhaps she just did it out of the goodness of her heart — or perhaps ( and this thought provoked a fresh spurt of giggles in my throat ) half the little souvenirs that littered her room were tokens of gratitude — from Torquay , Margate and Llandrindod Wells — I pulled myself together with a great effort , and took my hands from my face . |
| 27 | I did it out of boredom , it was something to do , and for status . |
| 28 | I did it out of necessity . |
| 29 | I know he stabbed the portrait but he 'd got over all that and he never killed her … he did it out of sheer unhappiness and frustration … but that was months ago … you must believe me ! ’ |
| 30 | I thought that Wilko giving him the number 2 shirt this season was a positive sign , but I 'm starting to think that he did it out of loyalty rather than in expectation of a comeback . |