Example sentences of "[pron] did [adj] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I did that work you asked me to do . |
| 2 | Yeah well I I said to Geoff I thought about it , but I did that come to me quite quickly but Geoff could n't think of it could you Geoff ? |
| 3 | Well I mean I did those pilot appraisals |
| 4 | I did some light work and felt fine . |
| 5 | When the heavy snow storms came I did some langlauf with Christian and Dominique Sarron and Adrien . |
| 6 | I know I did some damage . |
| 7 | ‘ There were only about 15 varieties available then , but I did some research and came across an American monograph written before the Second World War that listed 250 . |
| 8 | Years later , long after Tam was " deed " , I did some research at the Black Watch archives in Perth and was assured that no such thing could ever have happened . |
| 9 | A lot of these were books written by moralistic females ; books which erm reflected various kinds of Victorian ideas , and much later on when I did some research in Oxford on Victorian literature I found a way of putting these two sorts of things together . |
| 10 | ‘ Darling , ’ Arabella had said , ‘ You know that PR firm I did some work for ? I was talking with their boss the other day , and he said they were looking for new blood … ’ |
| 11 | I did this walk once on a bright June day with Pat and Bill the dog . |
| 12 | I did this top bottom up so that my dad would n't call me a tart as I walked out the house and I forgot to undo it again ! |
| 13 | I did this experiment in four frenzied weeks in 1984 with a fanatically hard-working , Warsaw-based autoradiographer , Margaret Kossut , and repeated them in more detail the following year with a neuroanatomist from Budapest , Andras Csillag , who helped identify the anatomical structures in which Margaret and I had found the changes . |
| 14 | At college , I did this project on images of Black women in the media , because it bothered me . |
| 15 | It has dropped much of its collective thinking , which did such damage in the post-war years ; but it still lacks fundamental confidence in the entrepreneur . |
| 16 | It was the Labour party 's supply-side policies , including its industrial relations policies — all of which we had to reverse — which did such damage in the 1970s . |
| 17 | He 's the man who did that murder in London . ’ |
| 18 | Coburn was a solicitor who did some work for the defendant , Colledge , in 1889 . |
| 19 | Anyone who did this last time would have been guaranteed a win . |
| 20 | I just hope the people who did this rot in hell . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I think it 's about time you did some work . |
| 22 | But erm she did this roast lamb |
| 23 | She had responsibility for training and managing her own Administrative Assistant , and she did this work with sensitivity , skill , patience and determination . |
| 24 | Now if we take it just one step further , there was a lady well there still is a lady called and she did some research , what she was trying to look at was the the sort of body language if you like the actions that people er use and associate that to their personality and she looked particularly at people who were open positive communicators truthful I suppose but people who were open communicators and looked at the sort of things they did and also at people who perhaps were n't quite so honest and open and truthful . |
| 25 | Thought perhaps she did some work whatever . |
| 26 | Er we did that exercise again er to advise members on which had priority , so we did assessments with a southern bypass clearly already there , with a northern relief road in place , assessed that against the situation with no western relief road . |
| 27 | I mean cos and we did that stall on peat but we did n't really take part in the peat day of action did we ? |
| 28 | ‘ We did that race for our own satisfaction , but there is publicity to be gained . |
| 29 | I thought we did that last time . |
| 30 | Remember when we did that space ship scene ? |