Example sentences of "and did a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nervously I left the safety of a good peg and did a few free moves towards the next one , 20 feet away on the blank left wall . |
| 2 | You left the cinema your hand in your pocket clutching a non-existent ‘ rod ’ , you went rat a tat tat Chicago piano machine gun style and did a James Cagney hoodlum staggering along the pavement with your hands to your chest until you collapsed into a doorway mown down by gangsters ' bullets crying for Pat O'Brien or Joan Blondell to take the message to ma . |
| 3 | I seem to remember they put it in mono and did a limited edition in stereo which , for those days , was a fairly advanced piece of thinking . |
| 4 | She actually did a lot of good things — she pulled a lot of things together and did a lot of things for David . |
| 5 | The sheet metal workers , who cut sheet metal to the design of the drawings of the part of a car , earned 2s 6d ( 12p ) per hour , and did a lot of overtime at one and a quarter time , which means that many of them would have been earning £6 or £7 per week , and be well over the arbitrary divide of £4 suggested as a line for the divide between the working class and the middle class . |
| 6 | Peter took it all quietly , of course , and it would n't surprise me if , when all the fuss had died down , he went back to his hotel and did a bit of painting . |
| 7 | Petrie 's recollection of Charles Manning is less rosy than Grace 's : ‘ He had long white hair , was billed as the Svengali of Music , and pranced around , stooping and conducting with hair and fingers dangling as he gesticulated comically and did a little dance on the podium ’ . |
| 8 | When this song failed to make the impact she clearly expected it to make , she turned to Henry as if she was addressing some Yugoslav peasant and did a lot of the kind of lip and tongue work she had used on Elke , their one and only au pair . |
| 9 | Mr. Gordon came back to Salisbury upon retirement , was Councillor for St. Martin 's Ward , then Mayor of the City and did a grand job in cataloguing the City 's Archives . |
| 10 | Paula and Louise had been nominated to sell the raffle tickets and did a round of the hall , flirting outrageously and telling all the boys the tickets were ‘ sixpence each or two shillings a strip ’ . |
| 11 | He shook his head then and did a series of short barks in his throat . |
| 12 | We talked back and forth and eventually went back to the old Sun studio and did a few tracks down there . |
| 13 | And then we took a remote truck down to Carl 's house and did a few things in his den . |
| 14 | Hank came in and did a lot of recordings , which I was glad of because it gave me some relief . |
| 15 | I blew lines repeatedly and did a terrible job , and I knew I would n't get the part . ’ |
| 16 | But then they went up and did a whole loada stuff for the miners . |
| 17 | Medic Mike Jackson said : ‘ When we arrived there was total chaos but officers had administered emergency first aid and did a good job stemming the blood and calming the girl . ’ |
| 18 | Hill was a key part of the 1991 Grand Slam team but admitted : ‘ Dewi won the shirt last season and did a terrific job as the lads won the Slam for a second successive year . |
| 19 | ‘ Her mother was a very wealthy woman , and her father was a kind of handyman who helped out in the convent , and did a bit of work up at Westlands . |
| 20 | Several years ago I met someone who is now a very famous television celebrity and did a piece on the radio with them . |
| 21 | She twirled them like a majorette , and did a few ninja moves . |
| 22 | Superb ‘ Ray has been superb in the last couple of games , and Steve came in and did a good job . |
| 23 | Even if I went onstage and did a direct rip-off of Jagger or Bowie it would never come off as a complete copy because Blondie is a girl . ’ |
| 24 | The county 's director of cricket , Geoff Cook , said : ‘ Dean was very popular up here and did a perfect job for us on and off the pitch . ’ |
| 25 | Billy hunched his shoulders and did a quick shuffle . |
| 26 | He managed to keep working , paid for his board and lodging , helped her to look after the handicapped boy and did a few jobs around the house . |
| 27 | The next morning we walked up the glacier and did a lengthy rock scramble , the Trifthorn ( 3,728 metres ) , partly to acclimatise , and partly because Martin had tried it a few years earlier and failed to reach the top . |
| 28 | She left her girls ' boarding school ( St Mary 's , Calne ) without any notion of saving the planet , and did a number of well-bred girls ' things in London and Paris — Harrods ' toy department , a cordon bleu course , door-to-door sales , modelling — before starting what she regards as her first proper job , in an advertising agency 's information department . |
| 29 | Minas Gerais , for example , wanted to gain some of the job-creating benefits of playing host to foreigners that had previously been concentrated around Sao Paolo , and did a deal with Fiat ; Parana acted similarly with Volvo . |
| 30 | As soon as you got out of sight , you altered direction and did a wide loop so you could sneak up behind us . ’ |