Example sentences of "to do [pers pn] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They always had to do them on Boxing Day , so that the letters went into the first possible post after Christmas . |
| 3 | It 's hard to imagine Mr Fogg , for example , ever having been a train-spotter : if there was any train-spotting to be done , Mr Fogg would have despatched his loyal French manservant Passepartout to do it on his behalf . |
| 4 | It 's not that he wants to stop them going to the toilet , we 've got to persuade these people to do it on a stagger basis … |
| 5 | If she was going to qualify for Wembley , she was going to have to do it on her own and Midnight just had to be good enough . |
| 6 | You decide to leap over the convent wall and hightail it to England to a new life , and you have the wit to do it on early closing day . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I was getting a bit anxious , because today was realistically my last chance to do it on turf , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ We 're just trying to do it on our own terms . |
| 9 | But I have not seen much evidence that it is really possible to do it on this scale . |
| 10 | To get out was a considerable achievement : to go on to etch his own personality on the world was so rare as to be wonderful : but to do it on his own terms , in his own way and to do exactly as he wanted was astounding . |
| 11 | I 've I 've got a knitting machine and I worked out how to do it on my knitting machine and made a cot blanket for my newest grandchild and it does really look very effective . |
| 12 | By holding one end of this batten against the wall , floor ceiling , and using the tape to measure the gap , you will be able to do it on your own without needing someone to hold the other end of the tape , and will get more accurate measurements , as you will not need to allow for the width of the tape measure case . |
| 13 | No , well I 'm I 'm saying to you the same sort of things , in general skills and abilities there are certain things that we required to put in the er numeracy the literacy er , to some degree attendance and punctuality , although we do n't have to do it on a subject specific basis erm we , everybody wants to know about he young , ho whether their youngsters are trying i.e. effort ha , whether they behave in lessons . |
| 14 | So if you want to So it 's if you when especially as you 're going to do it on your calculator anyway , |
| 15 | Now that 's much easier to do it on paper than if I say well the only way to find is let's get sixty pennies out , you count sixty I 'll count another sixty then we 'll see how many we 've got . |
| 16 | Try to do it on the cheap , however , and you could get lumbered with a lot of high priced product you simply do n't know how to shift . |
| 17 | ‘ I know you 'd prefer to do it on your own , but it 's obvious you ca n't . |
| 18 | I 've always wanted to go beyond that curve and I have n't liked to do it on my own . ’ |
| 19 | There would be a few drinks , some canapes and a few staff who were free and willing to do it on overtime . |
| 20 | Yeah , that 's what I mean , you have to do it on one two three . |
| 21 | They 've been putting pressure on this chap Morris to renew Sykes 's fellowship , and the clincher is he was going to do it on Monday . ’ |
| 22 | That is what we intend to do and we intend to do it on the basis of the criteria erm that we have set out . |
| 23 | Er you fe you , you call a time , we used we used to do it on We Wednesdays and Saturdays . |
| 24 | But they also say in the alternative that that since the plaintiffs themselves were at this time by mid to late October of nineteen eighty five , not ready or able to complete it would have been improper erm for the defendant to advise the plaintiffs to serve a special notice to complete and my Lord the question that therefore arises er whether , even if that were correct , er and it 's not admitted that it is , that exonerates the defendants from given the advice er and whether they should still have advised the plaintiff erm of the opportunity which was open to him , that the plaintiff could if necessary take that course himself or be advised to go er elsewhere and be advised independently is er this is , this the point of the matter which he regarded as improper and was not willing to do it on the plaintiff 's behalf . |
| 25 | He 's not beaten and will be back to do it on Saturday , that will be his day . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ I am doing it my way and if I am to be able to beat Alain Prost I want to do it on the track by out-driving him , not by any other means . |
| 27 | It 's erm really about the only way to do it on problems . |
| 28 | But he 's got to do it on Access because there 's no money in the bank to write a cheque out and pay for the suit . |
| 29 | And erm she ca n't see enough to be able to do it on her own . |
| 30 | like that , no one knew , I was driving the car and I recorded everything that was in the car all night no one knew until the end of the night , I got the tape home , I go this is gon na be interesting I had to do it on one of my tapes though |