Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not something a Russian expected to do . |
| 2 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 3 | What the hell 's honesty got to do with it ? |
| 4 | Poor countries , rather than banning imports of hazardous waste — as the Organisation of African Unity tried to do in the 1989 Bamako convention — should accept it and legalise it . |
| 5 | The benefit which the taxpayers in this case received was the placing of their children in surplus places at the college , if as a matter of discretion the college agreed to do so . |
| 6 | Who were these people and what had my state of collapse got to do with them ? |
| 7 | And they ask what 's jazz got to do with it . |
| 8 | I wrote a long time ago to his Department and asked it to move against him and the Department failed to do so . |
| 9 | Ch. 784 it was held that a promise to transfer shares in a company on which no deposit or other sum had been paid was made for consideration when the transferee agreed to do all acts necessary to relieve the transferor of liability in respect of the shares . |
| 10 | Because this programme tried to do so much in limited time , it seemed to some observers to be somewhat thin or superficial . |
| 11 | At the Oscars , Marlon Brando 's powerhouse performance as a punch-drunk boxer hired to do strong-arm work for a corrupt union boss , blew away everything in sight . |
| 12 | It 's we actually got car locked did n't we ? |
| 13 | Furthermore the force needed to do so may be very small . |
| 14 | However , because the reptation is assumed to occur by migration of a segmental kink along the chain , the force needed to do this is applied one segment at a time and so it is more appropriate to use the frictional factor per segment ζ . |
| 15 | From where I 'm sitting ( in a Paris café as it happens , pal , limbering up for the days 500cl — I mean 500 word slog ) , a rest in that sense would take the form of a couple of shifts in a Bolivian tin mine — and Club Med do n't fly there . |
| 16 | he was a different child when he got back , the break did do him good and , and thoroughly enjoyed it |
| 17 | the man was going for the engagement ring did do er high street |
| 18 | Speed had done nothing else right the whole game with his overall game looking jaded . |
| 19 | Nebbins was Mr Cooper 's only horse who worked very hard , pulled the plough and the hay cart , and his , all the other jobs that a horse had to do on a farm . |
| 20 | He said he was happy that his side had done most of the attacking . |
| 21 | What , now , of Falkenhayn 's promise that the infantry would just walk into Verdun once the artillery had done its stuff ? |
| 22 | In 1916 he cited conscription and the suspension of trades union restrictions as things that coalition had done for the nation ; Gleanings and Memoranda headlined the speech " The Coalition Form of Government almost indispensable . " |
| 23 | Upon the facts the decision seems to have been correct so far as the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher goes , for all that the defendant had done was to plough up some forest land on which there had previously been no thistles but from which , for some unexplained reason , an immense crop of them sprang up in two successive years . |
| 24 | The plaintiff 's claim failed as the defendant had done everything possible to ensure that the statutory duty was complied with . |
| 25 | Their father called himself ‘ just a sailor ’ in the same deprecating way as King George V , King George VI , Lord Mountbatten and many other naval officers of royal or noble lineage had done . |
| 26 | The other bands whispered that Joseph would now head for Lapwai , abandoning them as Lawyer had done . |
| 27 | Defending the report , Japan 's Minister of International Trade and Industry , Kozo Watanabe , stated that his department had done no more than publish the " bare facts " , and that henceforth Japan would " say what it has to say and do what it has to do in international affairs " . |
| 28 | The priest had done it with orders for the pile of stones to be pulled down . |
| 29 | And for all he knew , pro-Syrian elements , the Lebanese Forces and other narco-terrorist groups were also still looking to revenge themselves for the damage that he and the Asmar cell had done to their drugs , arms and hostage-taking operations in Beirut . |
| 30 | She wanted to throw them wide and let in as much air as possible , as Cobalt had done on her earlier visit . |