Example sentences of "[pron] did [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did gardening . |
| 2 | I did psychotherapy for years … ‘ |
| 3 | When I did Nurse Ratchett in One Flew Over The Cuckoo 's Nest up in Manchester I read the novel and found a speech in the book that was really wonderful on the character and I asked the director if I could read it for him . |
| 4 | Yes I did sir , yes . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh yes I did lady . |
| 6 | She , she was off , off sick and er so for the last six months I did sister 's duties which was very useful because er it , it , it gave me that little bit of independence , working on my own whereas before you 'd always got either the staff nurse or the sister to fall back on . |
| 7 | ‘ I did AC Milan/Lazio on Channel 4 . |
| 8 | I did decorating last couple of weeks ago when I was off . |
| 9 | I went east , and I was lucky , for I had n't gone one hundred yards when I did trip over the painter . |
| 10 | Good job I did rice . |
| 11 | I did art right up until the end of school and have always had an interest in architecture . |
| 12 | At school I did English and Art , and looked at theatre design in art — it was all pointing the same way , really . |
| 13 | cos when I did English at school I just you know , you had to learn the poetry and that and |
| 14 | I did modelling as a stop-gap . |
| 15 | I could imagine if I did Chinese |
| 16 | erm , I wished I did mum I tell ya , get paid next week and it 's Easter |
| 17 | When we were flying over Holland I did steel myself to look out and I remember seeing where miles of land had been submerged under sea water to keep the Germans out , and houses , trees and roads were still under water . |
| 18 | Yes er that 's been the essence of what I 've wanted is er I 've , I 've had to have what I 've wanted by hook or by crook , and I do n't mean crook in a bad sense , I mean one way or another , you know what I mean and er I did job for the casters , same as they did jobs for me , you know and that 's how I 've gone through life , that is Michael . |
| 19 | We had reorganisations there , you know , every time they had a reorganisation a patch got bigger , and the workload got heavier , er , and in the last ten months of my period there , I did sort of thirty five thousand miles and a job as well , so I thought , blimey I 'm into mortality tables , if somebody else 's car had got my name written on it , so I decided to take a change . |
| 20 | I 'm no help either , I did sort of wonder what she 'd say but she 's . |
| 21 | I did hairdressing for five years and then I had a job as a manicurist at Claridges . |
| 22 | I did car park , eh ? |
| 23 | And erm then after erm I had done my training as nun , I did teacher training , and I taught for twenty years , before becoming a social worker . |
| 24 | ‘ I only hung around as long as I did thinking Maggie might come and see me , which she did , ’ Charlie replied . |
| 25 | I did n't like the way that shortly after I noticed it , I did business with a nervous man . |
| 26 | The syndicate that I did business with is being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office.I 'm convinced that myself and thousands like me have actually been swindled . |
| 27 | By the way , I I did that so I did area of square along the side . |
| 28 | Wayne never found his rhythm on his serve and he did not get into the match until he broke me at 5–3 , but I did good enough to win , ’ said the 24-year-old 1991 Wimbledon champion . |
| 29 | However , if I actually wanted to come along and learn some English — I did ‘ O ’ level English , I enjoyed it immensely , but then I did science in the sixth for and went on to a science career — can I come and study English at your school ? |
| 30 | I graduated in 1967 and then I did postgraduate work till 1969 and so I was in a student milieu until a year before the gay movement started . |