Example sentences of "[adv] do it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We felt we could only do it through local pressure , using the media and direct action ’ , a member of the group recalled . |
| 2 | I made it a condition that I 'd only do it with an American choreographer , and my assistant is American , too . ’ |
| 3 | But he can only , he can only do it on your information . |
| 4 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
| 5 | The original American legislation was only for women , and they made in fact some very erm convoluted and not very satisfactory arguments about why they should only do it for women . |
| 6 | So far as talking is concerned , they can only do it to each other . |
| 7 | It seems if we agree to these new constituents coming through , we 'll only do it by having additional buildings which are utterly wasteful and quite honestly Mr Deputy Speaker , I think you 'll your constituents a very distressed indeed about the waste , the fraud and the mismanagement of the E C , of course Sir . |
| 8 | ‘ If the weather 's dry and if you do n't mind how you treat your car — or maybe you could only do it in a jeep , I 've never tried it . |
| 9 | If I have to lose it , I 'll only do it in the ring . |
| 10 | Better do it with your on Saturday . |
| 11 | He , he did it once or twice , had to give up when he got to the mouth of the River Orwell because he mistimed the currents but he did , he did eventually do it from Stoke Bathing Place to Felixstowe . |
| 12 | If you were the last woman left alive on this bloody earth , I think I 'd rather do it for myself . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd rather do it with sheep . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ He 'd just rather do it with men . |
| 15 | No he 'll be at school , just me and you , scrubbing away at the floor you 'd rather do it with Christopher would n't you ? |
| 16 | He 'd rather do it at night ! |
| 17 | He did offer to come to Oxford , but I said I 'd rather do it in London . |
| 18 | ‘ I did n't exactly do it for nothing , ’ Nelson said . |
| 19 | ‘ If you want to throw up , at least you can just do it over the side . ’ |
| 20 | So what , when you 're paying that much for the hi-fi you do n't expect sound quality you 'll get from a tape to tape , it 's thought , the sound quality is so crap you might as well just do it on a shit thing |
| 21 | Er it 's a fifty percent uptake but it co and he says , Do n't you can ch you can just do it for six months of the Year . |
| 22 | I know that , but I 'll just do it for you . |
| 23 | Well perhaps I 'll just do it for Malcolm 's patch . |
| 24 | Otherwise I will just do it in a different colour , a different |
| 25 | But as you are , perhaps you might just do it in silence . ’ |
| 26 | Well I 'll just do it in my flat I suppose |
| 27 | Should just do it in time . |
| 28 | You can just do it like a normal take away . |
| 29 | Do you just do it like a school dictation in French , writing down the words , with conventional punctuation . |
| 30 | That , that 's a sensible kind of conclusion to draw and perhaps this would meet Kirsty 's point as well , because the what you might be tempted to say is look erm , in our cultures we have , we have absorbed from our cultures ways of seeing the world , bits about history and things restructure our thoughts and even when we try and do something new , I 'd say let's have a revolution everybody , put up your barricades , you know , actually we had some great fun in the sixties with that erm the , when this happens there 's a tendency to nevertheless do it in the traditional way , in other words although obviously the sixty eight revolution was about a completely different issue than the seventeen ninety eight revolution , it was very much later in history . |