Example sentences of "to do [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I 've refused to do them for Notts County Council on occasions . |
2 | its not , you ca n't , the thing is you ca n't defend them without how you die , you ca n't train people how to avo to die , you can only train them how to avoid it , so it does n't really matter if you get fired or not , but they show you the drills and you have to do them to the best of your ability the blank rounds are only there to the conditions , now this is why they 've got these laser got laser sights all over the body , helmet and torso and the actual weapons got a laser on top and you get , if you get near one of these things you go dead and your out , and you can actually simulate |
3 | It has to be said that the world would be a much better place if we just got on and did things instead of waiting for other people to do them on our behalf . |
4 | They always had to do them on Boxing Day , so that the letters went into the first possible post after Christmas . |
5 | There were lots of things to do and more people to do them with . |
6 | I know about things you like to do and the people you like to do them with . |
7 | The cool thing would be , during the three-day end of year exams , when you 're allowed to do them at home , to be seen drinking the Students ’ Union or in a pub around here , being terribly laid back while everyone else was hunched over their desks in their rooms . ’ |
8 | Well , they used to do them at fourpence ha'penny a pair , and each one must be put in a big envelope , so as it could go out on this catalogue business . |
9 | Yeah I have but I do n't how to do them like this I 've not seen it been d drawn out like that . |
10 | Experiments of the most Draconian nature wold be necessary to untangle these possibilities , says Altman , ‘ and you would n't be able to do them in a natural setting like Amboseli ’ . |
11 | With these processes , our edge processes and the technique of conjugation , one can actually solve all four of our basic subproblems independently of the others and it is possible to do them in any order , although it is difficult to orient pieces that are not yet in their correct position . |
12 | Now anyone with a spreadsheet should be able to do them in a few hours . |
13 | If an individual or the members of a firm may sue for a libel imputing to them insolvency , because of the damage which such a libel is calculated to do them in relation to their business , could it possibly be maintained that a trading corporation could not sue for a like libel ? … |
14 | Your officers has members from all over the country will try to apply a broad view but there are changes that will be necessary but they will attempt to do them in the most sympathetic and most broadly based way . |
15 | Although some of the things that you were taught you maybe never got a chance to do them in the bakery . |
16 | Cos he wanted to do them in here . |
17 | You 've got sixteen days to do them in in theory . |
18 | Okay well soon I will be asking you to do them in your head but |
19 | I do n't like doing intarsia knitting but I do like ‘ picture front ’ jumpers and decided that it was possible to do them by using the slip stitch Fair Isle method . |
20 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
21 | yeah erm so you 're not going to do yours until next week , er now what department ? |
22 | ‘ I rather hope I may get those concerned to invite me to do you in the Authors and their Work series — though I have n't done anything about it — I might then like to quote a bit or two out of a letter ( e.g. about Ivy ) , but I devoutly hope you will be able to censor the thing for yourself ’ — for there was still hope , or I was allowed to think so . |
23 | But for that old lady , I had been ordered to do her for the fire . |
24 | But obviously if you 're going to do that you 'll have to do it during next week some time On the other hand I could give you a list of five topics and you could choose one . |
25 | They 've had to do it during the weekend , a distance of eighty five miles , and it goes across five counties . |
26 | you might be able to do it off that , you wo n't be able to listen to it at the same time |
27 | Erm I mean one way to do it of course is to say that none of our water 's fit for drinking , and you all get bottled water then would n't you . |
28 | She tended to do it of late years by proxy , as it were : she was good — or had been before the advent of the Reverend Hereward Marr — at manning the tea-urn at the church social . |
29 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
30 | This care is not necessarily unsafe or ineffective , but we should always ask whether there is a more effective method , and in some cases , whether we need to do it at all . |