Example sentences of "do it " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the James , we are told who did it ; in the Ackroyd , the matted fellow who is the chief suspect is never very securely identified as the author of the crimes — it is almost as if the inspector could have done it : so that Ackroyd 's is an authorially uncertain work in which the authorship of its crimes is uncertain too . |
| 2 | They say that it wes the different claes that done it — the way the butler dressed — an it hed looked at the claes an taen a bad wey o the claes . |
| 3 | Do n't worry about going out there to give the greatest performance of any particular speech and then come away depressed because you know you 've done it badly . |
| 4 | Yesterday I could n't have done it . |
| 5 | As though now I know it will get done it is already in the past . |
| 6 | Not satisfaction at quality of whatever I had done , but simply at having done it at all . |
| 7 | Joy that my own hands had done it . |
| 8 | ‘ Does n't matter — I could have done it , ’ said David , pointedly . |
| 9 | Merrivale could have done it on his own when he was in there with her , and the gentleman who came in from outside did n't need a partner either . |
| 10 | ‘ She would have done it in a preordained way , of course , ’ mused Henry . |
| 11 | ‘ You mentioned it during one of our first meetings so I 've always had a hankering to see how they 've done it . |
| 12 | ‘ I know what a slow comfortable screw is , Francis , ’ said Jay in her best Mae West , ‘ but I ai n't never done it against a wall . ’ |
| 13 | Aw , shit , momma ! she protested , you 've done it now . |
| 14 | You 've done it now , she thought , numbing herself against Lucy 's inevitable knowing look and dismissive laugh . |
| 15 | Oh , Jay , I 'd have thought she 'd have done it by now , if she was going to . |
| 16 | And Rital , whose east European eyes had seen been and done it all for more of a century than she chose to admit , merely shrugged and locked the door . |
| 17 | True , she 'd done it . |
| 18 | He had done it with consummate aplomb . |
| 19 | The child 's cognisant acts have the character of perceptions : if an act is done it can not be undone ( ‘ reversed ’ in the jargon ) and so there is no going back and taking another perspective on the question or practical problem . |
| 20 | You think if I had n't bought it and done it up at enormous personal cost this cottage would still be standing ? ’ |
| 21 | Well , I have been and gone and done it this time . |
| 22 | ‘ Help , this is one way … irreversible … layaways … finger tips … wrong way , ’ I shuffled and chalked , ‘ bloody hell that foothold 's too far away , way , way … done it . ’ |
| 23 | He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) . |
| 24 | My only comment is that the Quarterly has done it again . |
| 25 | Staff who have worked in the homes become institutionalised ; they say this is the way we 've always done it . |
| 26 | Does he have to do it twice or explain how he 's done it ? |
| 27 | ‘ I would rather it had n't been him , but he 's done it plenty of times to me , ’ was the answer . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've done it ! ’ |
| 29 | They 'd done it in Gaelic to cover up the vulgarity . |
| 30 | If you 've done it , what lessons could you pass to those who have not ? |