Example sentences of "[noun] was do [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the larger provincial firm ( D ) the research was done with the probate partner . |
| 2 | Professor Hurstfield has argued that they were not , and that , provided no harm was done to the state , it would be anachronistic for the historian to object to them . |
| 3 | A lot of work was done to the bridge in the years 1648–50 and an inscription on it states that it was ‘ built ’ in 1650 . |
| 4 | Only when the inevitable standing ovation was over , and their work was done in the conference hall , could they relax . |
| 5 | The probability is that a large part , even most , of the work was done in the madhouse , and that Smart finished it after his release . |
| 6 | The White Paper promised that information would be gathered to help implement demand management , but no work was done until the autumn of 1945 . |
| 7 | Until an audit was done at the unit we did n't realise quite how much , but we do require donations for us to be here . |
| 8 | Most turnpiking was done on the north to south roads , although some cross-country in-filling occurred later ; they were less new roads than improvements on old ones , designed particularly to ease the movements of goods and the aristocracy to their country estates . |
| 9 | This statement by Lord Roskill , with whom all their Lordships agreed , was probably an obiter dictum since there was no doubt in that case that the act was done without the consent of the owner . |
| 10 | He was not looking at what the girl was doing with the match . |
| 11 | As testing was done on the basis of parental choice these infants would not be screened . |
| 12 | A check was done on the pH and a proprietary acid buffer was added to bring it down to 6.5 Softening resin was added in a box filter to bring down the hardness to 8°DGH . |
| 13 | There was no fairness on earth if someone who would appreciate it and work hard was kept out just because of a greedy , uncaring family who would prefer to forget the child of an unsuitable union rather than make a generous gesture and ensure that some right was done at the end of the day . |
| 14 | All the interviewing was done by the author and was an informal discussion rather than formal questioning . |
| 15 | ‘ And what his idea was , in a way I suppose , was just to see the position which I had to get the horse into before he had the job with the mare ; and he wondered how the job was done with the harness I 'd got on . |
| 16 | Morse interrupted Lewis 's thoughts : ‘ Shall I tell you exactly what our leader was doing in the betting-shop ? |
| 17 | I think if you saw what David did afterwards , he was obviously attracted to the one-man show that Tony Newley was doing at the time like , ‘ Stop The World ’ and things like that , and the lyrics appealed to him . |
| 18 | Gohar Kordy writes : ‘ What would have been the work of psychotherapy in the West for years was done by the family in these 40 days ’ . |
| 19 | For example , an investigation was done into the profitability of a certain product which was common to several divisions . |
| 20 | The picture was done before the birth of Willem . |
| 21 | In high risk patients , dilatation was initially done under fluoroscopic control , subsequently in most patients the procedure was done without the fluoroscopy . |
| 22 | If you knew what the lecturer controlling your studies was to do in the way of arranging these in a particular order , you could make a skeleton in linear form , one heading following another and falling into a hierarchy of importance . |
| 23 | After the HN Unit Specifications had been refined by the consultative networks , an initial edit was done by the NDO and scrutiny carried out by the Steering Group or a sub committee of it . |
| 24 | I do n't know this Lucy Scarrott female and I do n't know what Billy was doing on the roof . |
| 25 | No stock count was done at the end of the month-but all goods were sold at a price based on the cost price plus one third . |
| 26 | Mm , what he 's talking about is the old covenant was to do with the mountain was n't it ? |
| 27 | The sowing was done before the ploughing . |
| 28 | Mr. Malone referred to the work the government was doing with the Ministry of Defence to support the declining armaments industry . |
| 29 | The operation was done through the midline scar and the recurrent tumour was removed from the right upper rectus together with surrounding unaffected tissue . |
| 30 | What was done by the Whips was done in the name of the Prime Minister . |