Example sentences of "[vb past] to do the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So this particular day at Old Newton , just before he started , he stopped to do the usual : get a good light on his owd pipe . |
| 2 | ‘ I always tried to do the best or what I thought was best . |
| 3 | I was er Chairman of Public Health and various chim , I was Chairman of the Road Safety , which I was very interested in I was very road safety conscious and we each were given a job which we tried to do the best we could with and then we well , whatever we were asked to do we began to make a good town , you know ? |
| 4 | He insisted that the least he could do would be to pay for the coffee , and he always tried to do the least that he could . |
| 5 | A rock jutted out which others had grabbed as they swung down , but as I tried to do the same there was no edge below for my feet and I whimpered pathetically dangling on the end of the rope . |
| 6 | Hardly aware of what she was doing , she tried to do the same , thankful that her shoes had soft soles . |
| 7 | I tried to do the same , and in between sailing my own boat and the occasional cutter duty managed to concentrate enough on my proper job to pass a promotion examination in 1956 . |
| 8 | Having succeeded in making your formulae work for Lotus 1-2-3 and for As-Easy-As I tried to do the same in Excel . |
| 9 | ‘ Then you came into my life and tried to do the same thing ! |
| 10 | She tried to do the accent , but she could not even get the ‘ daddy ’ right . |
| 11 | I just tried to do the best I could . |
| 12 | X/Open will reported to do the XPG integration work on all COSE specifications . |
| 13 | But , of course , Tony did n't like the song , so he asked whether I 'd do it , and that 's how I came to do the record . ’ |
| 14 | There was the man demobbed from his regiment who came to do the garden just as he had before he was called to war . |
| 15 | I was allowed to give the impression that there was a helluva lot more going on behind her facade , but again that was taken out when we came to do the episode again for the version seen on Television . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Ironically by the time we came to do the first episode again , my hair had grown a little longer , so it was n't quite as eye-catching , but even so I think it 's a very unrecognised feather in Doctor Who 's cap that we created the look which launched Vidal Sassoon on his road to fame and fortune . ’ |
| 17 | Village help of the Yaxlee variety came to do the flowers and clean the floor . |
| 18 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 19 | That fire man has he came to do the gas fire yet then ? |
| 20 | So came to do the other side , went to the same routine the nipple snapped off . |
| 21 | laughter so that by the time we came to do the five practical ev exercises you know everybody was in a very relaxed and jolly mood but I think that 's was it 's about but from the results that we were getting from the practical exercises clearly what he said had taken root you know roll key words , roll them around in your mind er try running through letters of the alphabet to match up with your key word chains and you know if if if the word is ball try roll see if you can get it to rhyme and ultimately the creme de la creme is if you can actually get the title of a song or |
| 22 | We took Ben to the vet and he was given a course of antibiotics , which seemed to do the trick . |
| 23 | It certainly seemed to do the trick . |
| 24 | On top of this , add 1,000 consultants , hired to do the work which the bank is — let us pretend — too understaffed or overworked to do for it itself . |
| 25 | He itched to do the latter , but common sense prevailed ; he had seen how uncomfortable were the lives of other guys who had done that , either to marry too young or go it alone . |
| 26 | Indeed , as Fairbairns points out , both in this article and in her novel Benefits , when a houseworker fails to carry out her domestic duties ‘ properly ’ someone else ( usually another woman ) is brought in by the state and paid to do the identical job . |
| 27 | I forgot to do the parsnips when I did the potatoes , but I think they 'll be |
| 28 | Because we forgot to do , we forgot to do the spelling test last Friday , so we had to do it on Monday so we did n't get any spelling this week , so right now we did n't have a spelling test , this is brilliant , guess what we do now ? |
| 29 | He got out and helped her from her seat , and turned to do the same for Dana . |
| 30 | Estate agents contracted to do the work are barred from inspecting properties in detail . |