Example sentences of "[pers pn] did all " in BNC.
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1 | I did all the usual stuff — I gave her some money and stuck her on a tube train to a night shelter , but while I was walking out of the tube station , I thought to myself , ‘ you complacent bitch ’ ’ you know . |
2 | Instead Westminster Bank made him a junior at its Darlington branch : ‘ I did all the jobs from making the tea to fetching the ledgers from the safe . ’ |
3 | I did all those movies because they were the only work I could get , ’ Nicholson said in a frank assessment of his next few years of acting roles on the fringes of Hollywood , appearing almost entirely in low-cost , quickly made horror films , and what were then called teenage exploitation pictures , mostly with Roger Corman . |
4 | The two young girls , I predicted , would not find such changes so difficult to accommodate , but I did all I could to see that Mrs Clements suffered the least adjustments , to the extent that I undertook for myself a number of duties which you may consider most broad-minded of a butler to do . |
5 | I did all I could to encourage Bernstein to chat with John , who seemed even then to be developing into one of Canada 's most versatile and brilliant conductors . |
6 | I did all I could for that plant , but while my White Poplar in the garden went from strength to strength , sprouting new branches and hundreds of suckers that came up like a forest over all the lawn , the fern bought on that memorable day when the second deluge had fallen just faded away before my eyes . |
7 | I did all my service round Garston . |
8 | I did all you asked . |
9 | I engineered it and produced it , I did all the bass and everything else on it except the drums . |
10 | I did all the cleaning , cooking and kept his books in order , which was no mean feat because he had a lot of clients call and all the money passed through my hands . ’ |
11 | I did all the housework . |
12 | I did all the cooking . |
13 | So after completing my National Service , I did all the things that everybody does when they 're trying to break into show business , urged on by my father 's insistence that I found employment of some sort — ‘ Get a job , any job , just get one ! |
14 | I was an electrician before I went into acting — I did all the wiring in my house . |
15 | Three years ago , when the establishment of a museum of modern art in Moscow was being considered , I did all that I could to welcome the idea . |
16 | The months rolled by and despite everything I did all my two pairs of fish ever produced were eggs which fungused . |
17 | So I did all the work . |
18 | But I did all the work of a Queen and I needed friends too . |
19 | We did pain relief and I did all my exercises , had films , talks , books that give me advice and everything , dead good they are . |
20 | " Great-grandfather , you must know already that I did all I could to stop Kim taking the gibbon , " he said , whispering aloud in the hope that his fervent words might be audible to his father and grandfather standing a few feet away . |
21 | Glad I did all that training in the gym . |
22 | I did all that I could . ’ |
23 | The , the present , the present day er in Edinburgh , the present day buildings that I helped to build up are now in Pilton and in fact er out in Saint I built , that was a er built a fact I did all the rough . |
24 | The trouble was , I did all the other things first . |
25 | I did all the bookkeeping . |
26 | I did all that , he hated that sort of thing . |
27 | So he gave me a baler and I did all of Ork around about Birsay and Sanday and round the area here and baled their hay to them . |
28 | Oh I did all my all my working days I us I used to keep it keep it in my pocket you know . |
29 | ‘ I did all the wrong things for the best of reasons , ’ she whispered sadly . |
30 | June , I did I did all dusting and polishing one day |