Example sentences of "[pron] did to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has someone been telling her what I did to the bald whores ? |
| 2 | Can we take it Mr that you would therefore apply the same comments to sector six on this criterion , as you did to the freestanding criterion ? |
| 3 | I mean if you did to the edge of the bath |
| 4 | I would imagine that Shereen would apply the same kind of pattern as you did to the de-toxification centre meeting , Shereen , and I felt that there were a great many people there , a great many interested , including the voluntary interest . |
| 5 | Only one rider , a slightly built girl called ‘ Evelyn ’ , was considered to be sufficiently capable to ride this powerful and frightening horse , which she did to the admiration and applause of everyone watching . |
| 6 | The woman had left the bags and O saw she was walking back to the child , he heard her heels , but O did not stay to see what she did to the child ( and so he did not see her pick the child up in her arms and hold him tight ) ; he turned quickly , and left the station as fast as he could . |
| 7 | The plain fact of the matter , snobbish though it may sound , was that they were both unintelligent and ill-educated in comparison to myself , belonging as they did to a different social class from the one into which I had been co-opted at school . |
| 8 | This last element , perhaps more than any other , is crucial for understanding why Marx and Engels attached so much more importance to the work of Morgan than they did to the work of the other evolutionist anthropologists whom they read . |
| 9 | They suffered considerable prejudice and criticism , adding as they did to the already excessive pool of surplus urban labour , though in practice they concentrated in trades , such as tailoring , in which there was relatively little competition . |
| 10 | There they give just the same protection to their new owners as they did to the jellyfish that developed them . |
| 11 | In cosmopolitan Cairo with its three principal working languages and at least a dozen other widely used ones people turned as readily to the overseas press as they did to the native one . |
| 12 | By 1913 Pound is confiding in his fiancée as , we must believe , he did to no one else . |
| 13 | Within a very short time several of those who were disappointed at his election swung over to gratitude for his coming and enthusiasm for what he did to the faculty . |
| 14 | He had grown up in the splendid sixties , had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth , enjoyed whatever he did to the hilt and was enough of a gentleman never to look back . |
| 15 | After what he did to THE FACE , I do n't see why you should have a picture of him in the magazine . |
| 16 | He did not feel so hostile to them as he did to the ravens , and merely ignored them , overflying them if they came too close but not behaving more aggressively than that . |
| 17 | ‘ When he 's angry , he acts the fool — you saw what he did to the portrait — but he would n't kill anyone . |
| 18 | From this viewpoint , racism contributed in significant measure to Ali 's achievements as it did to every other black sportsman 's . |
| 19 | President Wilson had no particular policy except a vague notion that National Self-Determination was a good thing — a notion that owed more to America s position in the world and the nature of its own historical development than it did to the realities of European life . |
| 20 | The car , a 1986 Chaika that owed its style as much to the 1958 Cadillac Eldorado as it did to the people 's revolution , sped along a country road . |
| 21 | Liquidity returned to the British market far more recently than it did to the American one . |
| 22 | The smell of oil clung to her as strongly as it did to the rags in the van . |
| 23 | Labour adopts a dogmatic approach to the rents-to-mortgages scheme , as it did to the right to buy and will abandon it in the same way . |
| 24 | In the days when increased duty meant an increased tax take , this attitude might just be forgiven , never mind the long-term damage it did to the industry . |