Example sentences of "[pers pn] did it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did it with some stuff before |
| 2 | I mean , I did it for four months and then I could n't do any more , I just think I mean , I know Amanda and Claire were a lot younger then and I think it 's difficult when they are they 're younger . |
| 3 | We did ask Dorothy to do it after I did it for four years , but she was n't keen and I had to go on . |
| 4 | I decided that what I did it for small reasons |
| 5 | I did it for six months and reckon that at only 24 I did it pretty well . |
| 6 | ‘ I did it for eight years . |
| 7 | Like , I did it for three nights and I was wrecked ! ’ |
| 8 | Now I did it in one method and Mr Grigson did it in er in a second method , and the ability to do that changes the number of households that it would project to the er the dwellings , and cancels out , this makes judgements erm on the actual population projections based , which are estimates that have come out , I do n't necessarily believe the best measured estimates have come out for York , and have adjusted some of the figures in accordance with that . |
| 9 | I did it in ten days , but in 1867 Loving took three months to do it . |
| 10 | And if you did it with real panache , and with a sense of luxury , it was called Gran Turismo . |
| 11 | but because he knew it was our troop , you know but erm , that 's the thing when you , nine times , about eight times out of ten you did it to another troop , but then again they did it back to you , but this time he was a right cocky son of a bitch , I mean we all liked him , but he was right cocky bastard , so he |
| 12 | Out of the corner of her mouth — and she did it with great flair — Sorrel said : |
| 13 | Like the prophets of the Old Testament , she was compelled to reprove sinners , especially those in high places , such as the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and , like the prophets , she did it with immense tactlessness . |
| 14 | She did it by careful eating and taking more exercise and , whatever anyone else tries to tell you , that is the only way to be sure of losing weight . |
| 15 | W we tried internment before , it caused a massive escalation of violence cos you never , you get families are angry , it escalates the numbers who are committed to terrorism , last time it was just the Republicans , if we did it on both sides it would just escalate terrorism . |
| 16 | We did it with Dangerous Lady , too , which was an amazing success for us last year [ it sold some 130,000 copies ] . |
| 17 | It 's perhaps perhaps easier to see it as the as the N As and the O Hs though okay or if we did it with sulphuric acid we 'd have hydrogen sulphate plus sodium hydroxide what 's that going to give us ? |
| 18 | Well I can remember then the last year when I was in the ninth year we did it in that half term , it was n't the first |
| 19 | The distance was eleven miles and we did it in two hours . |
| 20 | We did it in two plaits with huge white bandage bows . |
| 21 | We did it in twenty minutes flat . |
| 22 | And they did it for 20-year-old centre-half Darren Salton , who is still in a coma and on a life support machine after Thursday 's road crash in which Paul Telfer was also injured . |
| 23 | They did it with such tenderness that I gained new strength from their friendship , suddenly seeing the value in continuing , if only to deepen that shared bond . |
| 24 | He did it through sheer will-power , Peter had told her admiringly . |
| 25 | He had come to it relatively late in his short life , having dulled the joys of promiscuity , music and organization early on , and like everything else he took an interest in , he did it with terrifying brilliance . |
| 26 | He managed to turn Llewelyn 's imposing new title , compounded of the old sacred name for a reassurance to the Welsh , and the added flourish for English ears that had scarcely heard of Aberffraw , into a satirical comment , but he did it with great delicacy . |
| 27 | Charlotte was counting the seconds until he should extricate himself , and he did it in less time than she had expected , and without even the pretence of sitting down with her . |