Example sentences of "[noun sg] did [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because however much we might be reassured by Parliament that Charles 's constitutional position will be unaffected by his separation , most of us believe that the Prince will finally have to give up his right to the throne — just as his Great Uncle did in the Abdication of 1936 . |
| 2 | The pages of history will record and rehearse them far and wide , and every Englishman , whether in his island home or a wanderer on some foreign shore , will elate with admiration what George Foxlett Cutter did at the siege of Krishnapur ! " |
| 3 | During the Persian Empire Aramaic did not function as an international language in the same way in which Greek did in the period after Alexander . |
| 4 | Nothing his old man did in the rest of the trip came close to commanding such respect as falling asleep during that take-off . |
| 5 | Why does not he address the problem seriously and put real money into solving it — or will he continue to opt out and sell out , just as the Prime Minister did for the country in Maastricht yesterday ? |
| 6 | The other is at least partly the result of what history did to the Greeks between 1453 and 1821 , the centuries of Ottoman rule when ‘ government ’ meant something alien . |
| 7 | but your mother did at the end of the day |
| 8 | From the extracts to which I have ventured to refer it is clear that equity would have been unlikely to have considered that there was any duty upon the creditors and their solicitors to do more than they in fact did in the circumstances of that case . |