Example sentences of "did to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a very short time several of those who were disappointed at his election swung over to gratitude for his coming and enthusiasm for what he did to the faculty . |
| 2 | This last element , perhaps more than any other , is crucial for understanding why Marx and Engels attached so much more importance to the work of Morgan than they did to the work of the other evolutionist anthropologists whom they read . |
| 3 | The worst thing the old politburocracy did to the Czechs and Slovaks was to require them to ‘ live lies ’ because the truth did n't fit the pseudo-history which was supposed to legitimize Brezhnev 's satraps . |
| 4 | Caspar was howling now , long howls like they said wolves did to the moon . |
| 5 | Only one rider , a slightly built girl called ‘ Evelyn ’ , was considered to be sufficiently capable to ride this powerful and frightening horse , which she did to the admiration and applause of everyone watching . |
| 6 | The woman had left the bags and O saw she was walking back to the child , he heard her heels , but O did not stay to see what she did to the child ( and so he did not see her pick the child up in her arms and hold him tight ) ; he turned quickly , and left the station as fast as he could . |
| 7 | President Wilson had no particular policy except a vague notion that National Self-Determination was a good thing — a notion that owed more to America s position in the world and the nature of its own historical development than it did to the realities of European life . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm going to do to you what my kid brother did to the rat . ’ |
| 9 | It is important to recall exactly what these ordinary American lads did to the Vietnamese women , children , babies and old men they found in My Lai . |
| 10 | It was like a German bloodbath — what the Germans did to the Jews . ’ |
| 11 | He had grown up in the splendid sixties , had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth , enjoyed whatever he did to the hilt and was enough of a gentleman never to look back . |
| 12 | Mrs Frizzell circulated painstakingly through all the usual conversational openings , the weather , the forthcoming Edwardian Days Carnival Week , the coming winter and what winter did to the car trade , wondering how to get round to Hank 's Triumph . |
| 13 | After what he did to THE FACE , I do n't see why you should have a picture of him in the magazine . |
| 14 | The car , a 1986 Chaika that owed its style as much to the 1958 Cadillac Eldorado as it did to the people 's revolution , sped along a country road . |
| 15 | Liquidity returned to the British market far more recently than it did to the American one . |
| 16 | The other is at least partly the result of what history did to the Greeks between 1453 and 1821 , the centuries of Ottoman rule when ‘ government ’ meant something alien . |
| 17 | ‘ Faulty Optic do for the stripey booth what Archaos did to the Big Top ’ City Limits |
| 18 | They suffered considerable prejudice and criticism , adding as they did to the already excessive pool of surplus urban labour , though in practice they concentrated in trades , such as tailoring , in which there was relatively little competition . |
| 19 | There they give just the same protection to their new owners as they did to the jellyfish that developed them . |
| 20 | He did not feel so hostile to them as he did to the ravens , and merely ignored them , overflying them if they came too close but not behaving more aggressively than that . |
| 21 | Has someone been telling her what I did to the bald whores ? |
| 22 | The smell of oil clung to her as strongly as it did to the rags in the van . |
| 23 | They did not surrender to them as Louis XV and Louis XVI did to the opponents of monarchical power . |
| 24 | ‘ You know what Disney did to the workers ? ’ |
| 25 | Labour adopts a dogmatic approach to the rents-to-mortgages scheme , as it did to the right to buy and will abandon it in the same way . |
| 26 | ‘ When he 's angry , he acts the fool — you saw what he did to the portrait — but he would n't kill anyone . |
| 27 | In cosmopolitan Cairo with its three principal working languages and at least a dozen other widely used ones people turned as readily to the overseas press as they did to the native one . |
| 28 | Can we take it Mr that you would therefore apply the same comments to sector six on this criterion , as you did to the freestanding criterion ? |
| 29 | In the days when increased duty meant an increased tax take , this attitude might just be forgiven , never mind the long-term damage it did to the industry . |
| 30 | I mean if you did to the edge of the bath |