Example sentences of "[pron] did [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did that for the nose |
| 2 | I did that on the basis that it is very difficult to scrutinise the Bill 's Scottish aspects , complicated and far-reaching as they are , as they impact on a very distinct and separate local government tradition and system within the framework of United Kingdom legislation . |
| 3 | Yeah I did that on the car the other day . |
| 4 | I mean there 's so much more , well I did these on the mortise er , up the top last week you know |
| 5 | At first , I did most of the talking , and I remember asking her name , which she said was Hannah Hauxwell . |
| 6 | He was very quiet ; I did most of the talking . |
| 7 | I did most of the preparation , Mum looked after what was cooking . |
| 8 | ‘ I had the help of a bricklayer and a carpenter from time to time , but no , in the main I did most of the work myself . |
| 9 | Andrew Allan and I did most of the production , and I wrote many of the scripts , including a melodramatic parody entitled ‘ No Mother To Guide Her ’ . |
| 10 | That bar in the illustration , had to be lifted up and over at the end of each row to deposit the stitches on to the needles — a great opportunity to drop stitches , which I did most of the time ! |
| 11 | Once I did this under the eye of a policeman who nabbed me for parking on a yellow line when I emerged from the bank a few minutes later . |
| 12 | If I did this with the intention of deceiving people , would I be telling a lie ? |
| 13 | When I did this at the table , the player in the West seat went ‘ into the tank ’ , a bridge expression for a deep trance . |
| 14 | Havis himself did most of the cockpit shots , and these are skilfully intercut into air-to-air shots of Concorde , including a beautiful head-on one ( used several times ) of the Great White Dart skimming the cloud-tops leaving a vortex of white in its high-speed wake . |
| 15 | While the most prominent member of the VSC , Tariq Ali , was soon to become a member of a smaller , and less durable , International Marxist Group , it was the IS which did much of the groundwork , and which over the next five years was to reap most of the recruits . |
| 16 | The servants , who did much of the living which is commemorated here , and his parents , who did so little of it , are placed well within reach of an impartial sympathy in a work which nowhere feels vindictive , and which declines to settle for any final understanding of what went on . |
| 17 | John Mackinnon , who did much of the pioneer fieldwork on orangs and gives an entertaining account of his studies in In Search of the Red Ape , theorizes that the early orangs ranged the ground in large bands like gorillas , protected by their giant males . |
| 18 | Of the vast number of Ayrshire people who have emigrated to Canada , the man who was most successful financially was Robert Dunsmuir ( 1825–89 ) who went from Hurlford to Vancouver Island and amassed a fortune from coal mining and other businesses ( See Chapter 31 ) but the man who did most towards the advancement of the new country was John Galt ( See Chapter 9 ) . |
| 19 | This time it was the kadi who did most of the talking . |
| 20 | Trish Bissett , Dick Langton and Prim McHamish , who did most of the organising , acquired many new or nearly new books from publishers and bookshops , and review copies from the Times Educational Supplement . |
| 21 | And it was travellers , not tourists , who did most of the travelling . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Marie , ‘ Simon always said it was you did that to the kiosk . |
| 23 | It was thing with two prongs and you tap it in like that and it lifted the neeps , then you did that with the yeuk |
| 24 | If you did that in the Boat Race you would get left behind . |
| 25 | She did most of the talking , of herself and her career in the Bureau . |
| 26 | That was a , we did that in the conference room downstairs . |
| 27 | I mean we , we did most of the talking I think really |
| 28 | We did this over the summer . |
| 29 | We did this towards the end of the holiday . |
| 30 | they did that for the school children |