Example sentences of "[noun] did to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to recall exactly what these ordinary American lads did to the Vietnamese women , children , babies and old men they found in My Lai . |
| 2 | Mrs Frizzell circulated painstakingly through all the usual conversational openings , the weather , the forthcoming Edwardian Days Carnival Week , the coming winter and what winter did to the car trade , wondering how to get round to Hank 's Triumph . |
| 3 | ‘ Faulty Optic do for the stripey booth what Archaos did to the Big Top ’ City Limits |
| 4 | It was like a German bloodbath — what the Germans did to the Jews . ’ |
| 5 | The worst thing the old politburocracy did to the Czechs and Slovaks was to require them to ‘ live lies ’ because the truth did n't fit the pseudo-history which was supposed to legitimize Brezhnev 's satraps . |
| 6 | ‘ You know what Disney did to the workers ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Caspar was howling now , long howls like they said wolves did to the moon . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm going to do to you what my kid brother did to the rat . ’ |