Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summers says so , but he has n't seen the pictures , and there are always problems with stories that emphasise the power of Meyer Lansky ; he became a kind of bogeyman , credited with old crimes to boost a reputation which helped people do what the Mob wanted . |
| 2 | Statesmen were rarely the tools of business in this period ; sometimes they made businessmen do their work for them and they were alive to the possibility of political influence being spread through such economic channels as chartered companies . |
| 3 | He had light brown hair and a feral quality about him that made people do what he wanted . |
| 4 | I asked her what made people do things like that , and she told me that 99 per cent of men who 've been abused turn into abusers . |
| 5 | Luke Calder was nothing but a ruthless manipulator who made people do what he wanted when he wanted it , yet all she could think of was that she wanted to feel again the hot urgency of his mouth ! |
| 6 | Based on that I have to give it to Mel cos he could also bend the ball around the wall to score — I never saw Lorimer do that ( he did nt have to ! ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I saw Kylie do the Stock/Aitken/Waterman thing and Jason went down that same road , and I realised I was n't going to do anything musical while I was with Neighbours , because Kylie and Jason were just copping flak from everywhere . |
| 8 | well those hack saw blades do , do n't they ? |
| 9 | The second half saw Leeds do even more , but it just ended up frustrating . |
| 10 | ‘ Did Charley do all of it on his own ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ What did Ward do with it ? ’ |
| 12 | After the man was handcuffed did PC do anything else ? |
| 13 | So what did Richard do ? |
| 14 | There is , in fact , no monomorphemic means of enquiry for these adjectives in English ; the simplest corresponding question has some such form as what … do to … ? , as in : ( 8 ) what did Ellen do to the keys ? what will the mixture do to metal buttons ? what does muzak do to them ? |
| 15 | Consider , in this light , the contrasts in ( 17 ) and ( 18 ) , each presenting two sets of data ; the first set includes an adverbal adjective ; the second contains a predicate qualifying adjective , as indicated by the identity of the appropriate questions : ( 17 ) Ellen shook loose the keys what did Ellen do to the keys ? how did Ellen shake the keys ? the thief produced unharmed the goat what did the thief do to the goat ? how did the thief produce the goat ? ( 18 ) the raiders shot dead two vigilantes what did the raiders do to the vigilantes ? how did the raiders shoot the vigilantes *Andrew wants milky his coffee what does Andrew do to his coffee ? how does Andrew want his coffee ? |
| 16 | What did Jews do ? |
| 17 | What did Sue do ? |
| 18 | What did Ann do ? |
| 19 | Anyone who went … how did Rocky do ? |
| 20 | ‘ All right then , when did Nigel do the murder ? ’ |
| 21 | First , how far did Barth do what he is accused of ? and second , to what extent is there here a basis for valid criticism ? |
| 22 | ‘ Did Ethel do it ? ’ asked Maud . |
| 23 | Well what did folk do when they got to then ? |
| 24 | WHAT on earth did Scotland do with that ball in the first half ? |
| 25 | Notice also that there is an alternative and syntactically simpler way of expressing the second version , which is : ( 12 ) Haberup angered his golem We can see exactly the same type of ambiguity in : ( 13 ) Reg ran the engine dry The adverbal adjective version of ( 13 ) corresponding to the question what did Reg do to the engine ? tells us that Reg reduced the engine to a certain unsatisfactory state ( though he may at least have had the sense to stop at that point ) . |
| 26 | ‘ What did Daddy do in the war , Mummy ? ’ |
| 27 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
| 28 | How did Mrs do it ? |
| 29 | What did Liverpool do to them then ? |
| 30 | ‘ What did Schmidt do ? ’ |