Example sentences of "to do [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I 've refused to do them for Notts County Council on occasions . |
2 | its not , you ca n't , the thing is you ca n't defend them without how you die , you ca n't train people how to avo to die , you can only train them how to avoid it , so it does n't really matter if you get fired or not , but they show you the drills and you have to do them to the best of your ability the blank rounds are only there to the conditions , now this is why they 've got these laser got laser sights all over the body , helmet and torso and the actual weapons got a laser on top and you get , if you get near one of these things you go dead and your out , and you can actually simulate |
3 | 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 . |
4 | They always had to do them on Boxing Day , so that the letters went into the first possible post after Christmas . |
5 | There were lots of things to do and more people to do them with . |
6 | I know about things you like to do and the people you like to do them with . |
7 | The cool thing would be , during the three-day end of year exams , when you 're allowed to do them at home , to be seen drinking the Students ’ Union or in a pub around here , being terribly laid back while everyone else was hunched over their desks in their rooms . ’ |
8 | Well , they used to do them at fourpence ha'penny a pair , and each one must be put in a big envelope , so as it could go out on this catalogue business . |
9 | Yeah I have but I do n't how to do them like this I 've not seen it been d drawn out like that . |
10 | Experiments of the most Draconian nature wold be necessary to untangle these possibilities , says Altman , ‘ and you would n't be able to do them in a natural setting like Amboseli ’ . |
11 | With these processes , our edge processes and the technique of conjugation , one can actually solve all four of our basic subproblems independently of the others and it is possible to do them in any order , although it is difficult to orient pieces that are not yet in their correct position . |
12 | Now anyone with a spreadsheet should be able to do them in a few hours . |
13 | If an individual or the members of a firm may sue for a libel imputing to them insolvency , because of the damage which such a libel is calculated to do them in relation to their business , could it possibly be maintained that a trading corporation could not sue for a like libel ? … |
14 | Your officers has members from all over the country will try to apply a broad view but there are changes that will be necessary but they will attempt to do them in the most sympathetic and most broadly based way . |
15 | Although some of the things that you were taught you maybe never got a chance to do them in the bakery . |
16 | Cos he wanted to do them in here . |
17 | You 've got sixteen days to do them in in theory . |
18 | Okay well soon I will be asking you to do them in your head but |
19 | I do n't like doing intarsia knitting but I do like ‘ picture front ’ jumpers and decided that it was possible to do them by using the slip stitch Fair Isle method . |
20 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
21 | He said that if the design of the Foreign Office were changed , the India Office would also have to be changed and urged Palmerston and Wood to do nothing during the recess that would prejudice the adoption of the designs on display . |
22 | It was not unusual for young ladies to do nothing at all ; unless they occupied themselves with Berlin woolwork or the making of shell boxes , there was practically nothing genteel to do . |
23 | They begin to assume that their ageing parents are never satisfied , and may eventually conclude that it might be better to do nothing at all for them . |
24 | Conclude : ‘ It is better to waste your old age than to do nothing at all with it . ’ |
25 | Nenna might have added to her list of things that men do better than women their ability to do nothing at all in an unhurried manner . |
26 | They do n't seem to do nothing to him . |
27 | I understood that this was my mother 's wedding , and although I was necessary to it I was expected to do nothing but be there and appear contented . |
28 | To cast Michael as a juvenile lead and leave him to do nothing but singing , as the part was on stage , would have been crazy . |
29 | To do nothing on behalf of the socially deprived is to him basically irreligious . |
30 | God in heaven , he seemed to do nothing on this job but envy Boxer and his easy role . |