Example sentences of "they [vb past] do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incarcerated in Terry 's room , they made do with sandwiches for dinner , and endless cups of tea . |
| 2 | Constanza shelved it by promising to take him to Rome after the war for some slap-up ceremony ; meanwhile they made do before a registrar . |
| 3 | If anything , they would have been better off contributing less prize money ( which they tried to do in 1991 but were not allowed to reduce what they had already promised ) and used it instead to go into the appearance money pool , which will still have to be funded . |
| 4 | She forced it up and down , just as they seemed to do in the movies . |
| 5 | But it could also mean that erm they were getti that it they had been successful in getting taxation from what they 'd done since the beginning of cos they felt they could go even further . |
| 6 | But there was a house on this repossession and it was sort of like just a sort of young couple and they 'd bought this house and it was like a two bedroom house and they 'd done up beautiful . |
| 7 | Once they 'd done with our , figures and our faces then we 'd got to look for our innards and so we had had to have inner cleanliness . |
| 8 | Or they might put her on a prison ship to Australia , as they 'd done with two girls from St Jude 's a couple of months ago , because — on those farms where the transported convicts worked all chained together — there was a shortage of women . |
| 9 | And Phil Oakey must have eaten his own fringe when he heard what they 'd done to his malevolently provincial classic ‘ Do n't You Want Me ’ . |
| 10 | But he did n't want to go to the bloody thing , not after what they 'd done to the poor old man . |
| 11 | Which was crazy , she reflected as she sat there , after all the things they 'd done to each other with their bodies , and the things yet to be done . |
| 12 | Mr Stokle says he felt like killing the culprits when he first saw what they 'd done to Mrs Leyshon . |
| 13 | They had people to do that for them half the time , there was no need for it , but it was as if I had to earn my keep , I had to repay what they 'd done for me , with the people that worked there laughing at me behind my back , wondering where I 'd come from , thinking maybe I was no better than them . |
| 14 | By the time the General Election arrived eighteen months later , there was a good candidate ( Malcolm Thornton , now MP ) , a renewed constituency organisation and time for the people of Crosby to realise that they 'd done in that panicky moment when they were looking for a familiar face as their Member of Parliament . |
| 15 | But the real the real glorious irony I think that cheers up erm psephologists like me , political analysists , is that in those May elections the Conservatives did dramatically well compared to what they 'd done in the general election . |
| 16 | And he could attack the filled-in holes they 'd done in Upper Street earlier this morning . |
| 17 | And then er , they brought it back and then they started doing to quarter to six , but it still was n't good enough cos you ca n't , you ca n't have all these people in suits and briefcases stood outside a pub for quarter of an hour waiting for it open , you know |
| 18 | It awaits to be seen whether German social workers will find a way forward beyond the horizon drawn by this Act as they managed to do with the previous Act . |
| 19 | So they decided to build the warehouse themselves — which they managed to do for C$10,000 . |
| 20 | On the one hand some teachers saw the process as a hindrance — as something they had to do for the LEA and which would have little consequence for themselves . |
| 21 | I had a record company screaming for final mixes , not even sure that they wanted this album because ‘ Space Oddity ’ did n't do too well and as far as they were concerned this was going to be the last they had to do with David Bowie , and I was n't delivering the goods . |
| 22 | Arthur found the reasons for this unfathomable , but took it that they had to do with a comparison to his own looks . |
| 23 | And they sorted , they forward it I suppose or did whatever they had to do with it . |
| 24 | It is the only one where someone touched Jesus believing that this was all they had to do to be healed . |
| 25 | It was not so bad for a privileged minority , though even they had to do without modem medicine , and childbirth was highly risky for women . |
| 26 | If they had to do without him he would n't be greatly missed , and he doubted whether they would put themselves out to keep him . |
| 27 | That bag of vagabonds had to grasp what they had to do in order to get there , which included discipline . |
| 28 | Britain 's social engineers had prided themselves on the ability to plan as they had done during the war . |
| 29 | In the 1740s the French in India would have been happy enough to ignore the war in Europe and remain neutral , as they had done during earlier European wars , mainly because previous emperors could maintain the peace . |
| 30 | In a wartime bulletin of 1942 , staff were advised to urge customers to bring their own receptacles for food shopping , as they had done during the Great War . |