How To Use Do it In A Sentence

  • I'm just a little bit caught in the middle. Life is a maze and love is a riddle, I don't know where to go, can't do it alone.
  • They surely know they are going to be targets for abuse, so why do they do it?
  • Of course, Whitty himself ain’t exactly a peach; he loves him some torture, and buries knives in bellies with minimal provocation; when it comes to witch-hunting, he’s of the “burn her alive now, ask questions … well, don’t really bother asking questions, it’s just so damn fun to burn people, let’s do it some more!” school. Cry of the Banshee « Skid Roche
  • Look, if you want a descending obligato, do it in the privacy of your own home away from us normal people.
  • If we could by any possibility manage to do it, we would for sure.
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  • Greek weekly "Proto Thema", an unregretted and shameless Akin stated that he killed Solomou and would do it again if needed. OpEdNews - Diary: Murdering Peace in Derynia
  • You can do it from a pay-as-you-go mobile phone. Times, Sunday Times
  • Use illustrations where appropriate but don't overdo it.
  • Anyway, today we made a pistachio dacquoise (remember that a dacquoise is a meringue--whipped egg whites--with sugar and nut flour(s) folded into it), an apricot-passion-fruit gelee, some apricot glaze, two sablee dough shells (we didn't get to do those, as the only sablee dough left was too soft to work with, so we'll do it tomorrow), and each of us made an inverted puff pastry recipe and put four turns in the dough. Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts
  • Just be sure to wear a sunhat and a long-sleeved high-collared shirt while you do it.
  • The second set also starts of in a rollicky jamming way with a Stranger and a Cumberland to write home about, but then the band slows down and you get a sleepy Gloria and a communally weird Do It In The Road where "everyone" sings. Bt.etree.org
  • Not every pig can read short message, but you can do it.
  • If you want somebody to vouch for Mr. McEachern's non-burglariousness, I can do it. The Intrusion of Jimmy
  • Building cardboard cut-outs into flesh-and-blood characters is a worthy endeavour, but Joe as the ageing Lothario and KC as the young stud doesn't do it.
  • I've managed to outfish the other guys on the lake when I bust out the fly rod, so I'm sure the pros can do it. Fishing with "Flyconelli"
  • Controlling the tempo is a strategy, going back to the 4-corners in college ball, and the ability to do it well indicates defensive skill. Matthew Yglesias » Go Slow
  • In the process of designing courses and curriculums I re-examined how colleges do it.
  • Besides they would cut the heck out of every book like what was done to Harry Potter, and lets face it, to do pern you need to do it all and well. Pern Movie!
  • Obviously, one way to do it is to actually make them owners, for example, with an employee stock ownership plan.
  • They love the series and some whitehats tell em they gotta do it in three movies and some bullshit tv series..which most likely wouldnt be hbo or the like they cancelled deadwood in three seasons because it was too expensive to produce. network tv adaptation would be a catastrophe and blasphamy..they deny it probably out of respect. Ron Howard to direct DARK TOWER movie trilogy
  • Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
  • It even implies that it's impossible to second-guess myself, yet I do it anyway!
  • If the people of our charge must ` teach and admonish and exhort each other daily, 'no doubt teachers may do it to one another, without any super-eminency of power or degree. The Reformed Pastor
  • We weren't allowed to do it before because of the deficit, now they have relaxed the rules so we can still go for it.
  • The reason we don't do it more is that coupling and uncoupling trains adds to the journey time.
  • Everybody shouts it, mule-driver, "coachee," or cattle-driver; and even I, a passenger, fancied I could do it to disagreeable perfection after a time. The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
  • If you have elderly relatives do it for them too. The Sun
  • And so you just ding the enemies to death, and they're dumb enough to let you do it.
  • Why did the defence barrister do it that way? Times, Sunday Times
  • But when you take cuttings from valuable landscape plants such as cedar, fir, juniper, pine, spruce, and redwood, do it carefully to preserve the plant's health and shapeliness.
  • The food is gutsy and unpretentious, and recipes such as squid stuffed with raisins and pine kernels, or polenta and Seville orange cake, certainly do it for me.
  • Sometimes people don't just pick up the phone & ring Crimestoppers out of some sense of duty, but they will do it for filthy luker. 200 Weeks
  • Any rolling part can do it, but the major flutter-maker in your tape recorder is likely to be the capstan.
  • But you make me laugh, puttin 'on airs an' pretendin 'to do it for spoort -- "Wimmen ha'n't got no sense o' spoort, "says you, all solemn as owls. Corporal Sam and Other Stories
  • And you can do it backside too so that you end up ollieing over into a regular switch feeble.
  • Their ambition to succeed seems to be matched only by their hard-headed realism about selling and how to do it.
  • I thought the first one looked like a distorted and VERY pale purple pieman from strawberry shortcake ...complete with the bakers hat! humm wonder if they would do it in purple for me LOL.... Ghosts with the Most, Continued
  • The Persian Empire didn't do it.
  • Why pay your own doctor and insurance bills with after-tax income when your employer can do it with pre-tax dollars?
  • I didn't clean, so we hired a maid who said she would do it only if our house were exorcized. A Country of Husbands
  • They had, it seemed, picked the wrong person to do it.
  • What I fail to understand is, if sitting in front of the telly getting bladdered and shoving kettle chips down our gullets is so good for the economy, why don't we all do it all the time? Thai buffalo racing gives royal wedding sycophancy a run for its money | Martin Kelner
  • If they can do it in a way that they feel is morally and ethically right, that's fine.
  • If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.(If it is not broken, do not fix it.). 
  • Do it diagonally in both directions, to make diamond shapes.
  • If something needs to be done, I do it, I told him in a tone of voice that would engrave the words in his brain. Olivia
  • The county council has taken all our views on board and promised it will do its best to accommodate the wishes of the village within reason.
  • I'm not arguing the university mustn't change and expand, but I think there's better ways to do it.
  • Even more, I am very pleased do it here in France for the team and all our supporters.
  • Not, mind you, that Ken and Paul can reasonably be expected to do it all over the seventy minutes.
  • It's better to underdo the quantity than overdo it. Times, Sunday Times
  • I don't care what you say, I'm going to do it anyway.
  • They would say that being an archpriest of a major basilica is an important job, you need a senior churchman to do it.
  • 'INIKEN how make em? me twank skin put him on!' which literally means -- 'Ah! I now see how you do it, you put the skin on!!' Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the M
  • If a fuse is in the supply circuit, it will do its job and blow out, opening the circuit and stopping the current flow.
  • My fingers trembled so when I went to unclip it I couldn't do it. WEB OF DREAMS
  • I have tried to keep my reputation - to fight for my reputation - while it's been besmirched, and I have tried to do it in a way that brings honor to the House.
  • You can hire an estate agent, interior stager or complete sales teams to sell your house - or you can do it yourself.
  • You'd rather people die than give them health care, you'd rather people starve than give them food, and you'd rather cheat on your wife while stealing tax payers money to go to a foreign country to do it than remain faithful and stay at home doing your job. Obama: 'Act now' on health care
  • Would you be kind enough to do it for me?
  • Walking into a rectangular box just doesn't do it for me. Times, Sunday Times
  • The nuclear deterrent will stay, but there is still pressure to do it on the cheap. Times, Sunday Times
  • If they can make speech audible for the news, surely they can do it for drama. Times, Sunday Times
  • And that he who, entering into a church, doth not asperge himself with holy water, sinneth not, (461) if so be he do it _circa contemptum_. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
  • Now breathe in -- hold it -- breathe out. Do it again.
  • Ok, lets say you are a mage. Sometimes you need to Frost Nova and Blink away quickly. You can't do them both at the same time, so you set up a sequence to do it!
  • But, of course, if a true six-pack abdomen is what you're looking for, diet alone won't do it.
  • You just rubbed a lamp and expected a genie to do it. Times, Sunday Times
  • She always makes such a meal of it I could do it in half the time!
  • The reason to do it now is preventive to try and avoid a toothless old age for her.
  • Follow them the first time to see how they do, (you can tell them and do it very inobtrusively,). Donna Fish: The Ever Expanding Umbilical Cord, or Tweens and Independence
  • Because if He wouldn't do that, we'd just remain stuck in our illusions, unclear on the idea that God can do it all.
  • The influencer is clearly willing to work harder to ensure information flows through the Internet in sensible ways, but everyone else will need something more personal to happen as a result of tagging to warrant the amount of effort to do it. Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Looking At Social Media Ecologies
  • I felt that Marjorie might overdo it: also that Conky, who loved the sound of his voice, might be tempted to soothe the old man with intempestive gusts of song. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 12, 1916
  • We do it as a last resort. The Sun
  • It took all in all 4 days to do it, 2 days hanging wallpaper and 2 days for the preparations.
  • The global excuse 'my brain made me do it' would reduce life to a condition of status epilepticus. Times, Sunday Times
  • To multiply several prime numbers into a larger product is easy; any elementary school kid can do it.
  • The downside of producing one of the highlight collections of last season is the pressure to do it again. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cheapest way to sell your house of course is to do it yourself. Times, Sunday Times
  • She was unable to grasp how to do it.
  • For example, if the powers that be want to disenfranchise you or make you unemployable, that's one sure way to do it.
  • Just as I hate marching in the streets but do it because it must be done, I’m SOOO not a fund-raiser hobnobber…but God do I want Lieberman out on his ass! Firedoglake » STOP THE WAR – Pressure Congress
  • There are too many people preaching about how you should do it. The Sun
  • Only well educated, well compensated, and well respected teachers can possibly do it.
  • He knows the work will avail him little, but he has emphatic reasons for wanting to do it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Due to its limited budget and manpower, the record company did not want to do it either.
  • Then go back and do it again, but with your arms streamlined overhead (extended body position).
  • I do it because I like it.
  • The barrier to decreasing the size of the granule is the ability to do it with all the controls in place at the server," he says. WallStreetAndTech - All Stories
  • They set aside time for specific tasks and do it. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, robots cannot do it all and to postulate successive layers of repair bots is not viable. Why the Moon? Here's Why. - NASA Watch
  • I also banned her IP, because if she's going to be childish, she can do it someplace else.
  • See that you do it, then," the captain threatened him. THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT"
  • The course can be tailored to an individual's precise needs and looks at health, fitness, exercise and how to do it safely, and diet.
  • That his emotions never escape from their beginnings is shown by the way in which, after projecting into him a hallucination of romantic identity with Julia, the regime makes sure that his early feelings return: 'Do it to Julia! The Hell of Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • Don't overanalyze, anguish or ask… Just do it!
  • Whether you deworm yourself, or have your veterinarian do it for you, always keep a record of the horse, the deworming agent used, and the date.
  • As an added bonus, we can have the sesquicentennial again and do it properly this time.
  • As all of the civil servants have been transferred to other departments there was no one to make the tea, so I had to do it.
  • Who would want to cut a hole in the ice and dive beneath it, when you can go to the tropics and do it without a drysuit?
  • And is the full panoply of a criminal court such as the Old Bailey the right place to do it? Times, Sunday Times
  • Three quarters of the band want to do it, the other one 's undecided. Times, Sunday Times
  • We Tortured and We'd Do It Again for his latest hysterical rant in support of kidglove treatment for headlopping babyhunters. The Jawa Report
  • They do it cheerfully, and, strange to say, are as careful not to be "hived" as The colored cadet at West Point : autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U. S. A., first graduate of color from the U. S. Military Academy,
  • Now in my 50's I don't want to overcommit--I do it sometimes, but it feels like...um...smoking last night's cigarette that you rolled, and it was great, and you didn't smoke it all...but come the morning, it's about as unappetizing as complulsive over commitment! Overcommitted
  • Mr Barker suggested if they were going to "knife the Rubbish from Rio" then Mr Sono would be the perfect person to do it as he had "lank" experience of getting rid of Bafana coaches just before World Cups. IOL: News
  • But if the only way to do it is via a cranky and crabbed dismissal of science, count me out.
  • I have tried to commit suicide many times, but I couldn't do it.
  • Once he had finished them off, he summoned the waitress, looped his forefinger in the air and said, ‘Do it again.’
  • He was planning to smite his enemies and didn't want to do it on the Sabbath.
  • As 1080p decode is by far the most silicon-intensive thing any device will have to do, short of gaming or transcoding movies, any device that can do it can replace your computer for most purposes IF it can drive a bigger screen. Netbooks and HD Video: Hot or Not? AMD and NVIDIA Hope for Hot
  • And you don't need a cylinder of volatile compressed gas in your car to do it. Times, Sunday Times
  • You still have to ask: why does he do it, with the founding family and politicians breathing down his neck? Times, Sunday Times
  • Halfway through the day I took it down to redo it, and couldn't make it go the right way at all because there was a massive kink in it.
  • `I know I always wanted to beat your GPA, but I'd rather do it by myself, without your help. I.O.U. - SOMEONE HAS TO PAY
  • I don't resent people asking questions if they do it respectfully, which most people do.
  • Always wanted to learn to play the piano, maybe get a synthesizer, program in the chords, do it one-handed. CORMORANT
  • Roy encouraged her to do it: to fill her life with a new interest. STAGE FRIGHT
  • ROBERTS: Right, but you don't want to underdo it either. CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2006
  • So, we don't want to overdo it, but I certainly don't want to underdo it either. CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2003
  • But just to witness the shocked disbelief on their anal retentive little faces when I do it will be worth every syllable.
  • Dog sledding is one of those once-in-a-lifetime experiences insofar as if you have done it once you know better than to ever do it again. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
  • He did this sitting down, and he stood up to do it; and all the while the dog sat in the snow, its wolf-brush of a tail curled around warmly over its forefeet, its sharp wolf-ears pricked forward intently as it watched the man. To Build a Fire
  • I do it to get shriekingly frightened because that makes me very excited and produces all sorts of fun chemicals.
  • OK, maybe one person in a million has the innate talent, resources and organizational skills to do it.
  • The characters are unengaging, the actors never called upon to produce anything beyond pure ham (although they do it charmingly enough).
  • Because if I'm going to fly in the face of possible detractors I'd prefer to do it with pretty hair.
  • What broke the ice, he found, were small workshops where sharecroppers and domestics talked about practical issues that bothered them, brainstormed about what to do, and took steps to do it.
  • So, I'm going to ask the question anyway, and if it doesn't get answered, I'll just do it my way.
  • If the critics have ways of bringing about this changed pattern of cropping, why don't they simply do it, and stop wasting their time attacking a system that by their reckoning is a failure?
  • I'd advise that, if we don't have the capacity to do it, we should forget about it instead of disgracing ourselves.
  • It was really a risk and my physio and doctor did not want me to do it. Times, Sunday Times
  • The upholders of the Stratford-Shakespeare superstition call _us_ the hardest names they can think of, and they keep doing it all the time; very well, if they like to descend to that level, let them do it, but I will not so undignify myself as to follow them. Is Shakespeare Dead? from my autobiography
  • A: If you want to quit, you'd better do it payday.
  • If this legislation is as important as they say it is, then why not take the time to do it right?? Polls: Majority oppose heath care bill
  • Of course to do it really well there should be some foreshadowing, but if done really well the foreshadowing is there but not noticed on the first play through. Big Trouble For Dangerous High School Girls
  • Putting it in motion takes time and attention; do it right, and you get all kinds of clash and clangor and pretty sparks ‘His voice trails off, and his gaze is suddenly hard and keen.’
  • We do it now on a small scale to bring the rocks into Earth orbit from the asteroid belt.
  • If you would have a thing well done, you must do it yourself. 
  • According to the latter, if you want to do it the Brazilian way, guys should be sporting nothing but a sunga, a tiny piece of square Lycra, and ladies need to invest in a tanga, a minuscule bikini.
  • While at the BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas next week, I’ll be signing copies of my autobiography I’ll Do It Myself in which I intimately share living with cerebral palsy to show others that cp is not a death sentence, but rather a life sentence: Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2007 » November
  • If you let me paraphrase his own words - Caine is the most famous of Actors, but even though he is highly skilled, he couldn't do it without a fair amount of luck. Matthew Woodring Stover - Heroes Die (Book Review)
  • You tell me in the same breath that it is useless to investigate the matter, and that you desire me to do it.
  • On the other side of the coin, there are two types of strippers. the type who do it caz their smart and the type who do it caz they don't have the skills to get a job that requires more responsibility. call me some time, I'll take you out. Bitterblog
  • It took a lot of persistence and perseverance and a lot of great people around me telling me that I could do it and I could get there.
  • Let's go do it because we're a species of explorers and inventors and innovators.
  • Actually, it would be much more sensible to do it later.
  • But a better way to get the ‘feel’ of Europe is to do it yourself on a bareboat charter.
  • I'm not saying an exorcism couldn't be done, but I certainly couldn't do it before the Cathedral opens for matins at seven-thirty. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • If you don't agree with everything written by Paul, or in the creeds (and downgrade them to second-source interpretations) then your own second-source interpretation can only be looked at as another alternative source written in AD 2009 exhorting followers of Christ to do it a different way - the Book of McGrath, if you will (which leads one to question how are you so sure you have it right?) Self-Critical Faith
  • Was it an accident or did David do it on purpose?
  • If you are unsure about how to cut open a scallop or sea urchin, fillet a brill or clean an octopus, just ask your local fishmonger to do it for you.
  • A new government in Baghdad will have to do its utmost to meet popular expectations.
  • Then, gradually, the moiling stopped and, white-faced, he said: 'Can't do it. THE DICE MAN
  • If you know what breeding practices to do, if you know what diet to follow, if you know what drug to concoct, if you can get hold of the stuff to do it with, anybody can become an immortal.
  • I trael back and forth with my washtub base with no problems, and a guitar is all right too, but if you have that van full of amps and speakers I think you are going to have to talk pretty fast and probably have to come across with some loot, and if they think you are coming across for professional reasons, they aren't likely to let you do it on a tourist visa. Bands traveling to mexico......
  • I swear I nearly wrenched the door open to go in and do it myself. The Sun
  • Ribonucleic acid (RNA) – the biomolecule which can do it all The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989
  • I personally would not do it, simply because my laptop is my baby.
  • A counter argument for this would be ‘Well, if they can do it to someone else, surely we can do it to them.’
  • They do it by seein" that primitive forms are in what they call the older layers. Space
  • What you can do is find some other system that's naturally slowing it down, and try to gum that pathway up instead, freeing the enzyme of interest to do its thing.
  • Do it yourself; don't lean on others for support.
  • Don't ask him to do it-he doesn't have a clue!
  • The task of teacher trainers - the school of education - was to make the work of the teacher so carefully scripted that anyone could do it.
  • Brooke could hear Walker's disappointed sigh, but she just couldn't do it.
  • If you go into the cave without waiting for the guide, you do it at your own risk.
  • If the Conservative policy is to strengthen the Union it would seem the only way to go - they can hardly start saying that Labour misrule was a good thing and the Conservatives will do it more and better. One Large Donor Please.....
  • I hate to see things done by halves-- If it be right, do it boldly, --if it be wrong, leave it undone. 
  • Nobody else wants to do it. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's unlikely they could do it night after night in a production that travels and stuns the world, as Brook's actors did.
  • Besides, in these short-attention-span, 24/7 news cycle times, the professionals who really do control the information do it much better than all the other "yous" ever will. Candy Spelling: Six Months Later: Another Look at Time Magazine Naming "You" as Person of the Year
  • Nearly a quarter of men clean out their cars once a month whereas nearly three in four women do it less frequently.
  • I've bungied (bungeed?) before, but not off the harbour bridge and that's reason enough to do it again.
  • She said if she had the chance to do it over, she would have hired a press secretary.
  • You all know that I love photo-bombing photos, so I am certainly happy to do it under any circumstances.
  • I just can't do it this weekend as I am lecturing a class on Tuesday and I'm not prepared yet.
  • Even if I could do it, it's impossible to spell out a detailed policy prescription in a blog.
  • If you would have a thing well done, do it yourself. 
  • She dares him to do it, and just then the clock strikes twelve.
  • Windfor, with orders to feize the delinquents, and bring them off, if they judged they could do it with fafety. A complete history of Connecticut, civil and ecclesiastical, from the emigration of its first planters from England, in MDCXXX, to MDCCXIII
  • I wanted to remove the misspelled word from the dictionary, but couldn't figure out how to do it.
  • He said: 'I know from experience that the one way to stop people asking about reunions is to do it. The Sun
  • I'm just a little bit caught in the middle. Life is a maze and love is a riddle, I don't know where to go, can't do it alone.
  • I do it purely and simply for the money.
  • If you would have a thing well done, do it yourself. 
  • They might refuse to let us do it, but it's hardly likely.
  • Another thing that just unnerves me is when the head of our department watches me do something, then asks me to do it like three times REALLY SLOW.
  • It's arthroscopic, meaning they just do it with some small probes, put it behind the knee, remove some of that cartilage. CNN Transcript Jun 19, 2008
  • [profane] lebron in a dunk contest with kryptonate and superman, and tha king is here to show who ye rule this land. but nooooooooooooooooooooo, he dropps out lame, all those damn fans are dissapointed. hey lamebron do it for the fans come out as silver surfer, spiderman, jay-z i dont care just do it! Yahoo! Sports - Top News
  • He who has done ill once will do it again. 
  • If you don't do this for your sake, at least do it for mine, please?
  • Her father was supposed to do it, but he is too drunk, so Tess and Abraham load the wagon and begin the journey to market.
  • I've just got to prepare the dessert and that should do it.
  • I mean, every country can do movies which fill the screen, but Americans do it more often.
  • There is time to make a cup of tea while they do it. Times, Sunday Times
  • We were able to nationalize them during two different vehicle amnesties at very low cost, although it took about a year to do it for one of our cars. Info on how to legalize a vehicle in Mexico
  • It's the elegant balance of its hips, fine autumnal foliage and deep purple stems that do it for me. Times, Sunday Times
  • In turn that seems to have come from the verb shoo, meaning to drive a person or an animal in a given direction by making noises or gestures, which in turn comes from the noise people often make when they do it. Archive 2006-03-01

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