Example sentences of "did [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most of the men , it was the only day of the year when they were able to visit a town , spending their days as they did working on the isolated farms of the moors and dales . |
| 2 | We did that without any financial help from the government of the day . ’ |
| 3 | Now you did that without a calculator did n't you ? |
| 4 | Marxism grotesquely underestimated the power of nationalism , as it did that of religion . |
| 5 | One will be concerned with their legitimacy and whether their writ carries more weight with higher authorities , the local community and providers than did that of their predecessors . |
| 6 | Not only did my own shape improve dramatically but so did that of my ladies . |
| 7 | Schleiermacher 's own account of Jesus relied heavily on such psychological study ; so , for that matter , did that of Liberal Theology ; and so too did those which saw Jesus only as a particularly heroic and noble representative of the human race , as did the immensely popular Life of Jesus by the Frenchman Ernst Renan ( 1823–92 ) . |
| 8 | Their armament consisted , as did that of almost all battleships for the next two decades , of four big guns ( 12-inch in this case ) mounted in two pairs and a secondary broadside battery of half-a-dozen 6-inch . |
| 9 | So did that of Emanuel Shinwell , the son of a Jewish tailor of Polish origin , who had been born in London 's East End , but whose family later settled in Glasgow . |
| 10 | She was an attractive and popular figure with her large blue eyes and shock of thick hair , bobbed in the fashion she had set , as she also did that of using her surname alone . |
| 11 | An old potter regretted that machinery did not transform his trade as early as it did that of cotton . |
| 12 | I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt . |
| 13 | It was Gerald Kaufman , shadow foreign secretary , who did that for him , in a speech of vast sweeping grasp . |
| 14 | ‘ He did that for me ? ’ |
| 15 | I did that for 18 months , leaving Safferys at seven and not getting home until midnight . |
| 16 | I was never cut out to follow family tradition and stick to law — my brother did that for me , bless him . |
| 17 | They did that for their sins , she said , a kind of penance . |
| 18 | I did that for a year until the scheme finished . |
| 19 | Topaz did n't have to worry about making choices , for Angela did that for her . |
| 20 | ‘ You did that for me ? ’ |
| 21 | You did that for me . |
| 22 | Yes , at sunrise on Christmas Eve four years ago and , it was important for us to do exactly what we wanted because erm it was a second wedding for both of us and it was also erm we wanted to have something that represented sort of the aspirations of love and so , sunrise erm , and on the top of a hill did that for us . |
| 23 | Miss said somebody did that for me who did n't want to do their ordinary work . |
| 24 | I spat into my fingers and used them , then found his foreskin was loose enough to be rolled back and forth over the head , and did that for a while . |
| 25 | I think erm casualty was the worst in that you had very very long hours to do erm sometimes you were on call from five o'clock in the evening until nine o'clock the following morning , and you did that for a whole week so by the end of the time you really did feel inhuman , you were very very tired . |
| 26 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 27 | ‘ What do you think he did that for ? ’ |
| 28 | I ca n't think when you last did that for me . ’ |
| 29 | And then you see the the council I did that for nineteen years . |
| 30 | So it 's in year ten , Sandra does it er does it you did that for safety in the home ? |