Example sentences of "do it [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that he did not favour an increase in taxation but ‘ when it has to be done it has to be done ’ . |
| 2 | it 's very hard , if you ca n't do it go to the Snow White picture and colour the picture |
| 3 | workmen do n't guarantee that he is doing it according to the thing because |
| 4 | Getting an Open University degree is the toughest way of doing it known to man |
| 5 | Where did the idea come from and how did it relate to their developing interests , understandings and skills ? |
| 6 | What did it matter to them ? |
| 7 | What did it matter to her if he had one special woman or a harem ? |
| 8 | And if she did slip away , why did it matter to him ? |
| 9 | What did it matter to her if Silas made an idiot of himself over this woman ? |
| 10 | Did it matter to you at that time who it was ? |
| 11 | What did it matter to her , after all , that he no doubt planned to entertain his ladyfriends here ? |
| 12 | What did it mean to ‘ get down ’ ? |
| 13 | I asked , ‘ How much did it mean to you to know that people at home were working for your release ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ So if not nostalgia , what did it mean to you ? ’ |
| 15 | How differently did it appear to him from the Berelands ' assessment ! |
| 16 | What of the Conservative Party , how did it react to the challenge of fascism ? |
| 17 | What difference did it make to your work that you 'd come from outside the television industry ? |
| 18 | If so , did it lead to such unfairness that the statement ought not to have been admitted ? |
| 19 | In few cases in the later eighteenth century did it extend to improving the housing of the urban poor , crammed in their squalid suburbs in Chichester and Lewes or in the back yards , behind the better houses , in Battle . |
| 20 | Consequently , nationalisation expressed their political wish , but just as that did n't extend to an alternative philosophy at the economic or political level , neither did it extend to a radical philosophy of personal life . |
| 21 | Did it compare to the , the film ? |
| 22 | Correct me if I 'm wrong , but I can not remember major riots and civil disorder against the old rates system , nor did it contribute to the downfall of a Prime Minister . |
| 23 | When she spoke to Guitarist back in 1988 , Jennifer described how landing the job as guitar player on one of the largest tours ever was a dream come true ; how did it feel to be asked back this time ? |
| 24 | I had just two questions : how did it feel to be made immortal ? |
| 25 | Returning to my burglary , for instance , I 've described the process , but what did it do to me ? |
| 26 | What did it do to us ? |
| 27 | Not until the early sixties did it seem to be generally acknowledged that Britain was no longer a great power as previously understood . |
| 28 | Only then did it occur to me that , of course , my witticism would not be easily appreciated by someone who was not aware that it was gypsies who had passed by . |
| 29 | Not for the first time did it occur to Meryl that there was an obscure kind of convenience in having a schizophrenic on the premises . |
| 30 | Only when he had returned to his own office did it occur to him to flick through his passport 's pages . |