Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pahdra Singh has told me that although Proby 's cousin did manage to register the stand as a car , he did so describing it as a 1964 Skoda with 300,000 miles on the clock . |
| 2 | To know he had considered her ‘ special ’ was satisfying , but she did not regard it as a signal to fall headlong into his arms . |
| 3 | Yet I recently visited a hi-tech company which was fully conversant with activity-based costing yet did not do it on a regular annual basis . |
| 4 | When he said to Cassin " Nous sommes la France " , he did not mean it in a rhetorical sense . |
| 5 | In Ball , above , the court mentioned the " aimed at " doctrine but did not treat it as a separate element . |
| 6 | The Queen Alien was built in two versions , a full-size mechanical one also using two stuntmen inside , and a quarter-sized puppet , operated mechanically , since Cameron , who had accepted stop-motion for the Terminator 's final stage , did not like it for an organic creature . |
| 7 | They knew the realist option but did not take it as a way out of a social impasse , because , I would argue , the phenomenalist tendency of thought is too strong . |
| 8 | When Ramakrishna saw Kasi the Holy City , he did not see it as a physical city but as the dreams and hopes of holy pilgrims that had fallen on the city , stratum on stratum so that it became a city of holy ideas , a spiritual city . |
| 9 | In the US during the 1970s , the cultural climate in economic thinking was soft on inflation , and the Fed did not tackle it as a result , even though it had the power to do so . |
| 10 | Anyway , I did finally send it under a pen name — Ben MacLean — mostly to please you , ’ he said defensively . |
| 11 | I did n't put it on , I did n't cook it on a high enough light silly me not quite like the one you had last week |
| 12 | I found this mistake hurtful : 'more specifically , I did n't regard it as a source of amusement . |
| 13 | But the phone was cut off , the DHSS did n't regard it as a necessity . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't mean it as a compliment . ’ |
| 15 | so I went and saw him and he goes I did n't mean it as a slut as , as in a promiscuous woman |
| 16 | ‘ When I said I love Moira , I did n't mean it in a romantic fashion . |
| 17 | they did n't express it as a half of twice they just cancelled it through |
| 18 | His speed was such he did n't approach it at a speed where he could erm er l lay off and er let something happen . |
| 19 | I did I did n't doubt it for a minute , I thought I know this |
| 20 | Cos the boy did n't sell it with a modulator ! |
| 21 | ‘ Your house will be worth a lot more now , ’ people remarked brightly , which observation — if it brought forth a reply at all — was countered by a snapped : ‘ I did n't buy it as an investment ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Because it was n't toothpaste , and he did n't buy it in a shop ! |
| 23 | Fox did n't believe it for a minute . |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't believe it for a single moment , darling , ’ she repeated earnestly . |
| 25 | Though she did n't believe it for a moment . |
| 26 | I did n't see it as a choice between that and continuing an illegal existence . |