Example sentences of "[noun] were do [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these can be confirmed and if the tappings were done with the authority of a Home Office warrant , it suggests that the guidelines were being interpreted with a remarkable degree of latitude . |
| 2 | Now I I construe that , the way that 's constructed to mean that er when we 're say that the tide had turned against new settlements , as some districts were doing at the time this came out . |
| 3 | All experiments were done with the crystal at room temperature . |
| 4 | These things were done without the knowledge of parents , needless to say . |
| 5 | She just accepted the way things were done in the Army . |
| 6 | Thorndyke took pictures of what the cats were doing at the time they escaped . |
| 7 | All data entry and processing were done in the study headquarters in Navrongo with IBM PS/2 computers and dBase III+ software . |
| 8 | But for decades such scenes were done in the studio : if you think of the scene between the brothers Charley ( Rod Steiger ) and Terry ( Marlon Brando ) in On the Waterfront ( 1953 ) , as they talk in the back of a limo , the background of night-time streets has to be there and be moving ; but it 's only partly visible ( and the cars of the 1930s and '40s had small rear windows ) and becomes dramatically significant only after Terry has left the car . |
| 9 | It was what the Americans would call a ‘ company town ’ , and is worth seeing as an example of what enlightened employers were doing at the time . |
| 10 | Infusions into the transverse colon were performed with the colonscope about 10 cm proximal to the splenic flexure , while those into the sigmoid colon were done with the colonoscope about 10 cm proximal to the rectosigmoid junction . |
| 11 | Facts were to do with the material conditions of life described as precisely as possible and counted as accurately as possible . |