Example sentences of "[pers pn] do it be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The working classes rarely travelled far , and if they did it was on foot or , in the later years of the century , by tram , ‘ the gondola of the working classes ’ . |
| 2 | The training officer group were more likely to refer to joint or group decisions , none of them specifically mentioned the need for central approval , few mentioned relevancy to post as being essential ( or if they did it was within a wider framework of reference than relevance to post alone ) , and they were more likely to specify that the needs of the service and the needs of the individual were both taken into account . |
| 3 | They seldom dated their letters and when they did it was by the year of the king 's reign . |
| 4 | But the way he did it was with the same connections he defied , and to get into serious racing in his early days , he got a bank to give him credit and a sponsor to give him some backing : though he had n't , of his own , a sou in the world . |
| 5 | And one of the ways he does it is through the World Pooh sticks championships he devised and now holds every year . |
| 6 | Quite how it does it is beyond the scope of this review , but the results are certainly impressive . |
| 7 | There is controversy over whether this sort of fusion occurs under pressure inside the Earth , or inside the heavier Jupiter , but even if it does it is at levels that are useless for commercial fusion . |