Example sentences of "[noun] did [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is word that 's coming out now of what one department did by a new member of staff . |
| 2 | Yesterday 's newspaper columns on the election were devoted to Mr Dinkins ' promises to defend Jewish interests in the same way that Mayor Ed Koch did for the past 12 years . |
| 3 | Still , if Brahms knew his Rheinberger , what this CD makes clear is how well Rheinberger knew his Brahms , who stands over theses String Quartets , as Beethoven did over the young Brahms himself , only much more obviously : there are echoes of Brahms in the textures , the themes , the passage-work , the construction . |
| 4 | If they did so — as Antoine Pinay did in a famous " scene " in November 1959 — they were rebuffed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Equally important are economies of scope : big firms can use the materials and processes employed to make one product in the manufacture of related goods , as Japan 's consumer-electronics companies did in the 1970s , using the same factories that had previously churned out cheap transistor radios to manufacture televisions and videos . |
| 7 | Will last month 's breakdown of the GATT talks do for the 1990s what Smoot-Hawley did for the 1930s ? |
| 8 | Britain benefited from such a programme when they finished third at the Los Angeles Olympics and England did at the 1986 World Cup . |
| 9 | That 's what Jim Springer and Steve Wickham did to a derelict old building in Lower Swells . |
| 10 | ‘ I am very proud of what he and the rest of the team did in the second half when we were down to ten men , ’ said Smith . |
| 11 | Just as this same lively and turbulent natural process did for the ancient Egyptians . |
| 12 | One of their number has just written a book questioning this kind of control and spilling the beans of angst rather as American and British feminist writers did in the Seventies . |
| 13 | Palestine assumed the same level of international importance and sensitivity as the Balkans did in the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | WHAT WILDER 's Boulevard did for the fading grandeur of old Hollywood , Mackendrick did for the furious pulsating rhythms of New York 's sleazy showbiz scene . |
| 15 | By way of final illustration , we can apply Nozick 's refutation to Descartes ' sceptical argument about dreaming , and hence perhaps do better than Descartes did on the last page of the Meditations . |
| 16 | It may be an exaggeration — though not by much — to observe that industrial democracy stands now where political democracy did before the Great Reform Bill of 1832 . |
| 17 | They want me to walk out in Watts , like black people did in the '60s , and say ‘ Cool it , baby , cool it . ' |
| 18 | This album gathers together a cutting edge slice of Detroit ‘ 92 and — if it gets the right profile — could have the same seismic effect as Virgin 's ‘ Techno ’ collection did in the late '80s . |
| 19 | However , if the courts display the commonsense approach that the House of Lords did in the one relevant reported case of any importance , the probability is that we shall get by without much trouble . |
| 20 | What the appearance of de Castelnau had done to raise morale at the various HQs , the mere name of Pétain did among the ordinary soldiers . |
| 21 | Perhaps people who depended as much on mammoths as the hunting bands of south Russia or central Europe did during the late Ice Age sought by such means to identify with their gigantic and awesome prey . |
| 22 | I think there is only one jumper , world record holder Javier Satomayor , who would be capable of doing what Steve did in a first outing . ’ |
| 23 | This arrangement means there is no need for Mrs Thatcher to consider declaring a State of Emergency , as Mr Heath 's government did during the 1973 miners ' strike . |
| 24 | This discreet arrangement means , among other things , that there was no need for Mrs Thatcher to consider declaring a state of emergency , as Mr Heath 's government did during the 1973 miners ' strike . |
| 25 | 169 all out gave West Indies a win by an innings and 79 runs , the first time they had beaten England by an innings at home since 1934–5 ; by coincidence , it was the first time an England captain had chosen to field first in the Caribbean since Wyatt did in the same series . |
| 26 | Speaking in tongues , as the disciples did at the original Pentecost , is said to be commonplace . |
| 27 | His physical appearance implied a reservoir into which poured many fashionable currents of the late 1980s : of fitness , of black cool , of conspicuous consumption , of success through one 's own efforts , of sportsmen as street glamour figures who anticipated and forged tastes in the way that pop stars did in the Sixties . |
| 28 | Such taxes begin with the levies imposed by lay rulers to raise money for the crusades ( as the kings of England and France did for the Second and Third Crusades ) . |
| 29 | A nation which experienced years of defeat and disaster ( as France did in the mid-fourteenth century ) beat its breast in self-reproach and accepted war 's afflictions . |
| 30 | And for many in New York , it is a game show : in the Nineties the censorship debate is keeping contemporary art in the media spotlight , just as obscene auction prices did in the Eighties . |