Example sentences of "do [pron] [prep] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Erm and er but I think it 's it 's better to take the time , and provide something that is erm what is needed , rather than to just go ahead and erm do something without referring to the people it concerns .
2 I 've done everything from working on a building site for a week and promising to bring me cards in and giving a false name , to er potato picking erm doing hay , anything .
3 Erm we could even do it without bothering with twelfths on this .
4 We might do it amongst our family , we can do it er by you know helping within the family , you can do it by helping in the community , all sorts of different ways .
5 But I might do it by talking to them rather than by writing to them .
6 The pastoralist who can control his aggression with regard to his animals has in his childhood first had to learn how to do it with regard to his excremental activities and the parental authority-figures who insisted .
7 what about doing it without looking at the book ?
8 It only would have been like The Housemartins watered down if they 'd have kept doing it without believing in the band .
9 And this is a way of doing it without having to , you know , log-in to er a specific tradition , but to invoke , sort of a wider , more general principles .
10 Weakness kept him confined to his room most of the time and an overwhelming sense of guilt , remorse and failure prevented him from doing anything about writing to Liza .
11 Yeah cos I notice you do everything in pencil in your diary , do n't you ?
12 The injury to her knee she did herself by falling against a tree in the dark . ’
13 They had won , as they will always have to , against the odds , but they did it by capitalising on their best players , by utilising every ounce of available experience and by trying as hard as they knew how .
14 Magritte did it by playing with paradox : day and night both ; picture and landscape both .
15 You put that in his deed but the way that most of them do it through foxing through , through er hunting , you 're taking away from them .
16 They do it by going without themselves .
17 I do n't know I mean I think it depends how you d whether it is as formal as that or whether you almost do it by saying to er to half a dozen careers officers and half a dozen employment officers , Fill that , you know , Fill that in .
18 He does it by bringing into focus the various contributing factors .
19 Again , he does it by starting with both feet firmly on the ground .
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