Example sentences of "did [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We did it on the sloping lid of a locker , our jeans and knickers round our ankles .
2 She only did it as a temporary measures just
3 People will argue that she did it as a good deed , in helping her husband 's friend .
4 Well if you did it with a small brush ?
5 But I did it with a heavy heart , I can tell you .
6 Erm , the only time it was really good in my area was when Urban District Council did it with a little chap pushing a barrow and cutting the grass and it all looked absolutely beautiful .
7 He and Stephanie both always won Kim 's game , the objects on a tray , but whereas she remembered them for their quiddity , naming and denoting them in language in her mind , he did it with a geometrical map and total spatial recall .
8 But he did it with a warming smile and a ready assumption of her allegiance and willingness , more as if he had asked a small current courtesy of his wife than given an order to a servant .
9 Can there be anything more telling about the deviousness of these people than his account of how they actually put on television and interviewed a man who was said to have died while in a prison cell , and that , moreover , they did it with the sole motive of demonstrating that he was alive and in good health .
10 But somehow Sampras did reach it and Forget managed to make sure with his second volley and said later ‘ … but I 'm not quite sure how I did it with the wrong grip ’ .
11 Well , I mean , if we , if we did it with the free ferry , and there 's a possibility we might be able to get fairly cheap accommodation if we drove over there and stayed .
12 Whatever Massim 's cousin Sunil did for a living , he did it from an old-fashioned headmaster 's desk and a small personal computer .
13 Erm I was , I , I thought that , when you covered all the policies you then went through and summarized all the needs and I thought you were n't going to go back and , and er explore further so what you did is you covered all the policies and then you summarized everything and then explored all the needs and s and at one point I thought that you were n't actually going to do that but you did come back and do it , you just did it in a different way .
14 So she did it in the early morning before the Men came , or in the warm evenings when the Zoo gates were shut .
15 I did it in the dull knowledge that there was no way I could get up that hill .
16 He did it in the classic manner , by pitching the ball well up and bowling very , very quickly , and the fact that he needed help from his colleagues for only two of those wickets shows just how accurate he was .
17 ‘ Tennents did it in the wrong way .
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