Example sentences of "i did a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did a few odds and ends in the garden on Saturday , played a round of golf on Sunday morning . |
| 2 | ‘ I did a parachute jump , abseiled the White Cliffs of Dover and rode tandem to Paris . |
| 3 | ‘ I expected it to be hard because , when we tested here last February , I did a full race distance and it was hard work , very painful . ’ |
| 4 | People say that after my first two ‘ punk ’ albums , I did a ‘ reggae ’ album ( Beat Crazy , 1980 ) , and then a ‘ swing ’ album ( Joe Jackson 's Jumpin' Jive , 1981 ) . |
| 5 | When I took on the marine operations every ship had a fiftyfour man crew and it seemed to me that this was inefficient , so I did a trip on a ship and I came back quite convinced you could actually run a ship with twenty-one men . |
| 6 | Friday afternoons I did a course in aesthetics and I was allowed to paint the classroom — an old Nissen hut — black and red . |
| 7 | ‘ I did a television report about how the traffic police in Germany take pictures of cars being driven dangerously , in order to prosecute the drivers later . |
| 8 | I did a lot of homework when I started working on the script . |
| 9 | — And then I did a daft thing . |
| 10 | The first time I did a really good job . |
| 11 | It was obviously more than a weed or even a wild flower so I did a quick turn-round and decided that it was quite pretty with its two-tone yellow tubular flowers and ferny leaves . |
| 12 | I did a job for Penumbra and it 's over . |
| 13 | I did a survey on the most popular pop star and those two came out tops in the ‘ best-looking ’ stakes . |
| 14 | I first became fully aware of Mr Kinnock 's lack of ease with the written word when he and I did a half-hour TV Breakfast Time discussion , shortly before he became Labour leader . |
| 15 | I did a little research at the time of the East German business . |
| 16 | I mean I did a climb — A CLIMB ! |
| 17 | I did a neat somersault and found myself on the bottom of the river , drowning ; fishing jacket , waders and fishing bag weighed me down . |
| 18 | Might even go nursing — I did a bit once — and I could live in the hostel . ’ |
| 19 | At club level I did a lot of long and triple jumping , making 14.25 metres at the latter . |
| 20 | ‘ I did a tattoo for him . |
| 21 | The dossers and down-and-outs of Glasgow between 1985 and 1987 , then a different kind of hooligan , then onto a series of a little boy with a yacht and then in 1990–1 I did a huge series of faces and , in the last year , I 've been concentrating on thug images with bow necks and caps and dogs . |
| 22 | I did a series of men being led over cliffs . |
| 23 | I did a 50% water change and phoned the manufacturer who told me to keep an eye on things . |
| 24 | My whole aim was to get a bass like Jet Harris , a pink Fender , but we could n't afford it , so I did a couple of paper rounds and a milk round , my Dad chipped in and we got one on HP . |
| 25 | After that I did a lot of arranging of the parts around the dynamics , and we recorded the whole thing at Eel Pie ( Pete Townshend 's studio ) . |
| 26 | When I did a lot of my chord studying I used a Gibson 175 , and a cello guitar will obviously make your music go in a certain direction . |
| 27 | But I did a big tour with Elton John in 1980 . |
| 28 | In an attempt to retrieve it gracefully , I did a half turn ; the backs of my knees hit the arm of one of a pair of chairs and I toppled backwards over the chair and landed on my hat , wedged between the chairs with my legs in the air . |
| 29 | Last year I did a big , all-star benefit ; the sound check was fine . |
| 30 | I did a story and thought , no , that 's not right . |