Example sentences of "do it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an employee has produced a computer program outside the normal course of his duties , but has used his employer 's equipment or done it during the hours of his employment , the ownership of copyright is more difficult to predict , although it is more likely that the employer will be treated as owner . |
| 2 | But , then when you 've done it to the best of your ability and you ca n't really see the rewards , then you have to analyse why . |
| 3 | The railways had done it to the canals and now it was to happen in turn to the railways . |
| 4 | If only he could have done it with the Palace ! |
| 5 | And I 've done it with the same manager — Harry Bassett . ’ |
| 6 | My reason for not having done it myself and my father 's reasons for not having done it with the National Gallery is that , in the case of Yale , I 'm looking forward to the day when there 'll be other people interested in English art who will give paintings or money to the Center for British Art just because it is the Center for British Art , where they would n't do it if it was the Paul Mellon Center for British Art . |
| 7 | Almost all the murders that the police solve in real life are either dealt with in a matter of hours ( the husband done it with the kitchen knife ) or as a result of long , long , tedious inquiries , mostly house-to-house , the taking of fingerprints and the elimination of perhaps thousands of marginal suspects . |
| 8 | It is also the budget that has taken notice of what the opposition have actually said we listened to you we have not persevered with our original thinking , we 've talked to the officers , we 've listened to what you 've said , we may not have done it with the greatest grace possible but . |
| 9 | He 's not gon na change now , he 's always done it with the lofts first man . |
| 10 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 11 | She done it for the burial club money . |
| 12 | Just a day after Kevin , 33 , visited his JobCentre , she joked : ‘ People will make sarcastic comments like ‘ She 's done it for the £7 child benefit ’ . |
| 13 | In this respect , the French government is right to have made the Minister of Culture also Minister of Education ( although whether they have done it for the right reasons , and with the right man is another matter ) . |
| 14 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 15 | So , have you done it for the deadline ? |
| 16 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 17 | ‘ And after all he 's done it for the most altruistic of reasons-unlike Bill 's quarry . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 19 | But we have n't done it for the past eighteen months . |
| 20 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 21 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 22 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 23 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 24 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 25 | John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches . |
| 26 | He ought to have done it through the college got it cheaper . |
| 27 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |
| 28 | But then we should have got we we sh We should have done it on the way there , but we forget . |
| 29 | if you done it on the night mum , we would n't have this |
| 30 | Well I , I had done it at the interval . |