Example sentences of "did some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did some firm have a contract to produce these heads , and in what quantities : a hundred , a gross , a thousand ? |
| 2 | A spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Police said : ‘ A woman who did some shopping for the couple dropped the items off at the house . |
| 3 | It looks very much as if the version in the manuscript came first and Purcell did some polishing before the piece was printed — in the treble clef , of course , with an eye to the market . |
| 4 | I did some pork chops er , the other day erm and , and they cooked they cooked very well . |
| 5 | First of all , David did some recording in July — he recorded most of the ‘ Young Americans ’ album — and then there was a break in California and we were going to restart the tour in Los Angeles . |
| 6 | Toshiba , a Sparc RISC win which did some fabricating of Mips chips , is considering developing a 32-bit R3000 variant for use as a portable terminal CPU . |
| 7 | And I sort of started to get itchy feet to come back and do things in the early eighties and that 's when I went to Liverpool , I did a play with , I did Alfie with Alan who just directed the Commitments and er we went to a b and that really got me fired up to start again , and I sort of did some theatre stuff through the bits and pieces through the eighties until Love Hurts came . |
| 8 | David , of Brooks Hall Road , Ipswich , did some modelling work until two years ago when cancer was diagnosed . |
| 9 | They asked me to help dress the models who wandered around showing clothes to the ladies having afternoon tea in the restaurant , and after a bit I did some modelling myself . |
| 10 | Canadian Geoff Thompson , also 18 , did some modelling in America before moving to Whitehead . |
| 11 | Mada Joyce did some higglering in the neighbourhood , taking produce from the smallholdings down to the market in the coastal town of Annotto to sell and buying any goods the villagers might require while she was there . |
| 12 | We began at Bakewell , the central town of the Peaks , where we visited the 14th Century church to see its celebrated collection of mediaeval monuments , did some souvenir shopping and could n't resist a genuine Bakewell Pudding before going to nearby Chatsworth , the ‘ Palace of the Peak ’ . |
| 13 | We began at Bakewell , the central town of the Peaks , where we visited the 14th Century church to see its celebrated collection of mediaeval monuments , did some souvenir shopping and could n't resist a genuine Bakewell Pudding before going on to nearby Chatsworth , the ‘ Palace of the Peak ’ . |
| 14 | I did some Medau in London before the war but since then have been thwarted by a lack of classes in this area — but — I am always hopeful . |
| 15 | I even did some psychodrama when a travel magazine sent me on a ‘ holistic holiday ’ to the island of Skyros . |
| 16 | We did some circuit training and finished off with a quick game of indoor football in which I scored twice in my team 's three-one win . |
| 17 | She seemed most impressed , and said that I should meet her boyfriend who was looking for a bass player , and so I joined his jazz-rock band back in 1973 and we did some touring in Britain . |
| 18 | ‘ Did some 'ousekeeping . |
| 19 | Then he did some shouting and strode out of there — though he paused , and thoughtfully dimmed the lights , as he left the room . |
| 20 | Elizabeth never much believed in the ‘ place ’ , but she and John did some detective work in Wiltshire . |
| 21 | I did some composing in my early years , so I have gained some modest experience of how a piece should hang together , and how it should be carried from the first note to the last . |
| 22 | But at the back of the yet-to-be father 's mind was the belief that his professional life would continue while his wife did some mothering . |
| 23 | In fact , there , that that , that 's that printing of s , that shape of s , followed by a t , was still used by some printers right up until the twentieth century , because it 's actually , you know that when when prints , print was put together by hand , by picking up each letter erm , and as assembling it separately , there was actually always a stop letter , a stop erm , I ca n't remember what it 's called , although I did some printing years ago , erm , lump a die thing with s t already printed together , because because s t is used so much in combination , the erm , printer did n't always have to set up s followed by a t , but had a rack of s t's already prepared and they were often , virtually joined together in this way , and erm , I got , I got an edition of I think it 's the novels of Jane Austen printed in the nineteen twenties which still use that shape of s t but used as the small s for any other forms . |
| 24 | So I 've , I I did some rice and ha had it , but might just as well have thrown it away . |
| 25 | Well Dad he did some drinking . |
| 26 | That night I watched television and did some paperwork , amending the maps to include the newly named Black Destroyer Hill , writing a brief description of what I 'd done to the rabbits and logging both the effects of the bombs that I 'd used and the manufacture of the latest batch . |
| 27 | ‘ I carried on dealing in Sevens , servicing them , repairing them and did some racing until the economy picked up again in 1965 . ’ |
| 28 | Mario and his brother both did some racing while still in Italy : in miniature , underpowered versions of grand prix cars called Formula Junior . |
| 29 | ‘ We did some homework on their side but we know them so well it was hardly needed . ’ |
| 30 | He says er , yeah he said I did some onion , and then , I got some of them , you know |