Example sentences of "they [vb past] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constanza shelved it by promising to take him to Rome after the war for some slap-up ceremony ; meanwhile they made do before a registrar . |
| 2 | Incarcerated in Terry 's room , they made do with sandwiches for dinner , and endless cups of tea . |
| 3 | Yeah do n't know how many films they made do you ? |
| 4 | ‘ Circumstances , ’ Flora brushed that aside : ‘ what they could do , they did do — novels — Jane Austen , the Brontës , Virginia Woolf … . ’ |
| 5 | It was primarily an amateur place , but they did do three professional productions a year , mostly of plays on the school curriculum like The Royal Hunt of the Sun . |
| 6 | we was engaged , oh I have talked to other people but we was engaged in making locks but most of the locks , well they did do a , er wardrobe locks , small cabinet locks , lever locks but one of the biggest kind of locks we di er made was the locks for car cars and vans which , in them days , was was fantastic because most of the car bodies was of wood , the , the , the , the framework was wood , so erm the locks er were three or four , four by five er seven by eight and selvedges on them fourteen inches long , er bolts er the , the bolt mechanism would be anything from five eighths to an inch in di er er square with a radius on the end erm th there was er there was the sidecar locks which were smaller erm that was the sort of locks they made . |
| 7 | And and you could get a feel for the fact that they did do it . |
| 8 | Er , I ca n't say that I , I , I , I know they did do that yes , but I ca n't say that it er it interfered with us much and I ca n't er , ev ever think of anybody , you know wh sort of talking about it like in any respect . |
| 9 | Well , they did do it , but they used to recharge residents for unadopted sewers . |
| 10 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 11 | ‘ Still , ’ said Toby , ‘ I 'd like to know what they did do . |
| 12 | The orderlies did n't do a lot of work but they did do a lot of talking , and their general cheerfulness had a lifting effect on the corridor as a whole . |
| 13 | I was grateful to him for his tribute to the members of the two boundary committees , they did do an excellent job , they did it as he implied , slightly less un generously to the government er in a considerably shorter time than they and we would have liked but they did it very well and they did it very fairly . |
| 14 | Which they did do , but yesterday when Brian went to move the dust extractor that the radio was at the side of , there was wires hanging again like bloody clothes line again . |
| 15 | So erm anyway they they they did do it in the end . |
| 16 | They did do it , like you say it was more or less just covering for itself now and then use |
| 17 | They did do them in white , but they do n't seem to have them here , I only saw one pair , they were n't my size the other day . |
| 18 | She said so I said , so they did do that ? |
| 19 | I 'm sure they did do it well . |
| 20 | Yeah , they did do I 'm not sure . |