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

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1 So it 's funny to see it written in stone , as it were , something that I did off the top of my head . ’
2 Well my mother was one of the pillars of the Palfrey church and er she er oh I went , my father never used to go , but she used to go and of course I , I used to be an altar server down there when I got a bit older I did for a week or two to the erm do you know anything about an Anglo-Catholic Church I mean where they swing the incense and there is this little boy with the boat ?
3 Nothing put me off , I 'm happy to say , but in the years before I got the chance to enjoy what I did for a living , I still had to pay the rent .
4 ‘ If you must have chapter and verse — you remember that piece I did for the Statesman ?
5 The more I did for the Trust , the more I learnt about pregnancy , birth , breastfeeding , motherhood and myself .
6 When I did Beyond The Fringe , I was five foot two and the rest of them were all six foot , and a lot of my comedy came out of me being small .
7 I had one friend from another house who felt the same way as I did about the school and the whole process we were being put through .
8 You see the area and I did on a bicycle you know .
9 ‘ I remember the cover story I did on The Clash in 1977 , the thing that became ‘ Capital Radio ’ .
10 That 's what I did with a cup of tea this morning did n't I ?
11 I ca n't remember what I did with the body next .
12 Now can you see what I did with the lid at them ?
13 Now write a description of " What I did at the carnival " .
14 She did the English , maths I did at the tech , which I got free as I was under eighteen .
15 ‘ Oh , I did at the beginning .
16 ‘ I was given such a very early start in the game and looking back now I think of it as an even more remarkable achievement than I did at the time , ’ says Dozzell .
17 I did at the time erm I no longer am authorised to carry .
18 My son , aged four , believes in God and Jesus , as I did as a child .
19 Taylor said enthusiastically : ‘ After the win against Turkey , it was the first time since I 've been England manager that I 've gone back into the dressing room and felt the emotions I did as a club manager .
20 No , I did as a matter of fact .
21 Well he does , he goes in on Saturdays very often , he goes in on Sundays very often , you know , goes up to have a look at a site or goes into the office to look over something in peace without the phone ringing all that 's sort of thing , he puts in a lot of time that 's not strictly accounted for , Gerry did , I did as a teacher , but then we were well paid .
22 ‘ I 've learnt to do that much better than I did as an amateur .
23 I did in a way , Joe , ’ she said .
24 Well , I did in a way .
25 The upshot of this long sessions was that Eliot asked me to send him all the relevant documents , which I did in a letter of 20 May .
26 Yes erm but I do n't think I 'll ever again buy expensive Christmas presents in the way that I did in the past .
27 whatever your , your in it , and look after it , yes , erm well I do n't think I 'll ever again buy expensive Christmas presents in the way that I did in the past .
28 Also Whittaker , the English master , must have suffered with my transposition of a simple sentence in basic english , but nevertheless seemed to enthuse over anything I did in the manner of an essay .
29 Then I took a year off , and she kept going on and on at me that it 's time to go back to college , so I did in the end .
30 Well I did in the end .
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