Example sentences of "do but it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Greatly simplified calculations were done but it was realised that they left out many important factors and were therefore quite unreliable . |
| 2 | It has been done but it is a hell of a thing to repeat , it will be a very , very fine piece of mountaineering if they pull it off . ’ |
| 3 | I wrote and thanked him on behalf of the Council for what he 'd done but it 's now a question of finding somebody who can match it . |
| 4 | I do n't need to erm elaborate much more Okay , the give it , give it a mechanical structure , well that does n't necessarily apply to some of the things that we 've done but it does to other parts and if you 're gon na discuss somebody 's model , think about it in the real world . |
| 5 | No , it needs to be done but it 's something that |
| 6 | Well it 's a bit i well I , well I could do but it 's a bit tricky I mean to some |
| 7 | It 's something she would naturally do but it was not the job alone that spurred the gentleman to buy her flowers . |
| 8 | I know what I 've got ta do but it 's just doing it |
| 9 | I said at eight years old , it should do but it |
| 10 | so I 'll just have to try and remember to bring an electric drill up an see what I can do but it 's all working . |
| 11 | I could do but it 's er I did n't want to I 'm choosing when I wear it and when I do n't . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought it would take too long to do but it was easier than the problems of printing . ’ |
| 13 | It is all very simple to do but it is crucial that the ferret should not become frightened . |
| 14 | This took us some time to do but it was a lot of fun . |
| 15 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 16 | Having heard that , and secondly due to your patience er through your patience getting clarification that it the borough could if it wished allocate its sixty hectares under this structure plan policy outside the town centres and that things that then took place in town centres would be extra , it 's not something they have to do but it 's a freedom they would have in their local plan , having heard those two things , the concern I 've got that even at sixty hectares , Harrogate 's allocation was too small erm really recedes very quickly sir , and would completely disappear and here Mr Allenby and I are at one , |
| 17 | To tell you what to do but it 's also knowing how to do it , because sometimes especially if we knew in the truth , we do n't always know what to do and if we 're very young you see , we 're , it 's , it 's one |
| 18 | Editing a program you like is fine if you know what you 're doing but it 's too easy to spend hours fiddling with the EQ to get the distortion to sound just so , when getting the right room size is the element that makes the sound . |
| 19 | Erm I just wonder whether it might not have been better to move round a little bit to the left so we could have seen the lady 's hand and sa as well er er and as well as her face , you know , we 've got ta get we can see what she 's doing , know what she 's doing but it 'd been nice if you could have included her hands . |
| 20 | The joints have gone and this wanted doing but it would of been extortionate she said , you know , to get it done |
| 21 | Or else you sort of jotted them down at the back of your mind , you know , to think about them later , but you never remembered , or you did but it was too late , they 'd gone , your head was full of other things . ’ |
| 22 | I did resent her quite a lot for what she did but it gave way after a few months . |
| 23 | No cos they bent round and we had a tie , we did but it was only a little bannister you know , we tried it |
| 24 | She never did but it 's always worth watching a human , just in case . |
| 25 | In the Victorian era it did but it does n't today . |
| 26 | Whereas Marion 's sort of it it did n't tell a story like what erm Fiona 's did but it was just it 's the kind of painting I like . |
| 27 | Erm quite rightly the director said that predictions in terms of residential admissions and nursing home admissions would be easier to make this year than last year and I accept it was very difficult then year but I 'd just like to know how close the actual outcome is likely to be to the original prediction , really for information , not because I think you could have got it any closer than did but it would be just interesting to know what the s the gap was . |
| 28 | ‘ I always did but it is n't easy , is it ? |
| 29 | On Wednesday night he did but it was n't Bangor wearing their usual strip … they are also Apoel Nicosia 's colours and it was the Cypriots who squeezed through 3-2 on aggregate . |
| 30 | Yes I did , it started going , I do n't know what I did but it started going it started |