Example sentences of "did [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 2 | From the time that my colleagues in the House of Commons did me the honour of electing me to be their leader I have felt that I was in the position of a trustee ; and even throughout the war the one thing that I have aimed at constantly has been to preserve . |
| 3 | " When you did me the honour of appointing me to the Mastership of Stockport School I was led to suppose that the Income , inclusive of Ten Pounds paid by your Worshipful Company , amounted to nearly Three Hundred Pounds per annum , and from an Enquiry , however , during my Residence here , I have had the Mortification to find that the whole Salary was not more than £25 10 10½d , so that it was impossible for me to remain in the Situation without a Prospect of Church Preferment in the Neighbourhood , which I have no reason to hope for . |
| 4 | he did me the honour of revealing his sources . |
| 5 | Nearly fifty years later Magdalen did me the signal honour of electing me an Honorary Fellow . |
| 6 | Mr Gould , who in describing this new species did me the honour of calling it after my name , states , that besides the smaller size and different colour of the plumage , the beak is of considerably less proportional dimensions than in the common Rhea ; that the tarsi are covered with differently-shaped scales , and that they are feathered six inches beneath the knee . |
| 7 | I do n't think I ever have done Heathrow , oh wait a minute , did I the first year ? |
| 8 | They might establish themselves in some suitable centre of social life for a while , as that Latin-American family did which the Paris Guide of 1867 records as arriving with eighteen wagons of baggage . |
| 9 | In other words did you the flat ? |
| 10 | Marx 's social theory , although it did not advance in any detail beyond the analysis of capitalism as a mode of production to a study of the state and politics , did none the less sketch a conception of political development which was assimilated into the doctrines and practices of a large part of the European labour movement . |
| 11 | It is often said that the ‘ old men ’ did everything the hard way and in the past such templates tended to be cut from the solid . |
| 12 | She took all her medicines , and did everything the doctors said . |
| 13 | There were no squabbles … as long as they did everything the same as anybody else and paid their fees , which were exactly the same . |
| 14 | The women did everything the forestry men had done before them , including felling trees for telegraph poles and pitprops . |
| 15 | They , they made a big difference did they the buses you would use ? |
| 16 | In certain cases the warlords would use this but how often , we 've already talked , how often did your landlord , they , they used er sort of agencies to collect , only but how often did they sort of er did they the militia on them ? |
| 17 | We did her the favour of pretending that she was not talking about her own lack of brains . |
| 18 | Farnham reached their second cup final of the season — and they did it the hard way when they met Cranleigh in the semi-finals of the Class Elite Cup at the Memorial Ground on Saturday . |
| 19 | Next , they brought out the wally who placed his head on the block but , being a wally , he did it the wrong way , facing upwards instead of downwards . |
| 20 | All of us did it the whole time . |
| 21 | When she did it the second time . |
| 22 | Well that 's , that 's well that 's all I can recollect in relation to why we did it the way we did . |
| 23 | Right , which is what we got when we did it the other way . |
| 24 | but you 'll see players who , I mean , I mean , did it the other day when I was playing and she did this , oh yes , she I said you 've moved it , I thoroughly accepted it was n't through , you should n't do that . |
| 25 | Once one way , cleaned it up and then did it the o opposite way . |
| 26 | Well you did it the other day but then you did n't have a teddy in your hand did you ? |
| 27 | Reliability is much to , much more to do with replicability , it 's , it 's another if another researcher went in and did it the same way , would they get the same results ? |
| 28 | just as I did it the bloody filter light came on |
| 29 | Erm before I sent , I only did it the other day , I regret to say any rate . |
| 30 | And he did it the right way , he did it the hard way , always in the first two , always having a cut at and jump , jump , jump , you know . |