Example sentences of "did some [noun] " 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 | Even if some process of this kind was at work , one still has to explain the differences between women 's responses — why did some women describe themselves as housewives and others not ? |
| 7 | No doubt she did some things that were … well , regrettable , I do n't know , but she worked very hard while she was with my family and she was the best nanny we ever had . |
| 8 | Mr Helmut Wolski had felt a different man since the golden eagle 's escape , and now did some things differently . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Tony did some sketches last year and he was going to work them up into a picture — why have n't you , Tony ? ’ |
| 12 | David , of Brooks Hall Road , Ipswich , did some modelling work until two years ago when cancer was diagnosed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Canadian Geoff Thompson , also 18 , did some modelling in America before moving to Whitehead . |
| 15 | Left alone , Vincent did some drawings of his sister , Wil . |
| 16 | And erm did some drawings with them and that . |
| 17 | Why did some birds of the same taxonomic family move in flocks while others were solitary ? |
| 18 | Nor could it be said that the British welfare system identified , or even defined , let alone assisted , the genuinely needy groups as effectively as did some systems prevailing elsewhere . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I did some shows with Ritchie Blackmore and Ritchie himself was really nice to me , but some of his team were real jerks , and we really did n't give them any reason to be that way . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I even did some psychodrama when a travel magazine sent me on a ‘ holistic holiday ’ to the island of Skyros . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Did some 'ousekeeping . |
| 28 | We did some demos and we asked Tony to come along and play keyboards . |
| 29 | We did some intervals |
| 30 | Then he did some shouting and strode out of there — though he paused , and thoughtfully dimmed the lights , as he left the room . |