Example sentences of "do it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 And , what 's more , he 's done it without sacrificing the lightness and strength of the guitar , nor any of its internal volume .
2 He 'd done it by making her question herself , she realised .
3 He had done it by convening his kin and friends and other nobles in his support .
4 Actually , I 'm convinced the man to beat Lewis will do it through applying more mental pressure than physical strength .
5 We were on honeymoon , I could do it without loving or being loved , but not here … not in Hong Kong …
6 Erm we could even do it without bothering with twelfths on this .
7 Could you do it without counting them ?
8 And if you would do it without telling Mr Thacker .
9 Besides , I want to protect the remains of my privacy ; I do n't want to appear cold-hearted or stubborn ; but I know that when I try to make my life give me its answers to how I have come to my current concerns , I ca n't do it without feeling that I am on the edge of a dangerous fiction of self-description .
10 And they must do it without letting off any light , or the sky would be aglow with the death throes of neutrinos to this day .
11 It 's been difficult to write about , because how do you do it without sounding anti-women ?
12 Think of conductances , every time you think of conductance just write one over R. Erm so I think you can do , do it without working but if you need to it 's there , so I 'll leave that .
13 So it 's nought , point , six , two , so for our thirty seven minutes it 's , four point six , two , there we are look , but the thing is you can now do it without having to look at a scale
14 ‘ You wo n't do it without killing him , Jacques .
15 Erm how do you do it without redoing the thing ?
16 But I did n't do it with dieting — it 's just that as you get older , and I 'm 62 now , you do n't need as much food .
17 We might do it amongst our family , we can do it er by you know helping within the family , you can do it by helping in the community , all sorts of different ways .
18 If you can not do it by constructing the notion of pains which are not yours , you can not do it any other way .
19 You can do it by scrubbing the Navy .
20 It 's not really desperately important cos I can do it by using a list rather than a map but it 's just somehow easier to refer
21 And you can do it by taking one from t' other but more useful er , I would suggest , is to work out a planned performance or what I 've called a planned performance , er , this 'll be in your , in your notes as well , er which equals planned expenditure over planned er , income or allowance .
22 Now I know I could do it by getting a little deeper into things but can anyone think of a pure MS-DOS way of doing it ?
23 But I might do it by talking to them rather than by writing to them .
24 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 .
25 Its good reception encouraged Boyle to set pen to paper , publishing his results in June 1663 , at which time he observed , ‘ Nor is it only by dissection of various animals that the naturalist may promote the anatomist 's knowledge , but perhaps he may do it by devising ways to make the dead bodies of man and other animals keep longer than naturally they would do . ’
26 Could you do it by adding up on paper ?
27 The pastoralist who can control his aggression with regard to his animals has in his childhood first had to learn how to do it with regard to his excremental activities and the parental authority-figures who insisted .
28 People with valuable secrets ought not to allow subordinate employees … to obtain knowledge of this kind , and if they choose to do it without warning them they will find it very difficult to claim interlocutory relief successfully " .
29 It is one thing to step into the unknown , another to do it without exaggerating the claims for the product , and quite amazing to end our launch year with a turnover that exceeds our most optimistic forecasts by 250% .
30 But to do it without damaging the flora and fauna , horse power still reigns supreme .
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