Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] did the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She liked the morning best , for it was then that she and the three other women who formed a team for one section of the building did the rooms , emptying waste-paper baskets , running a duster over desks , and vacuum.cleaning floors . |
| 2 | what sort of a civilization did the Cro-Magnons enjoy ? |
| 3 | Not for a second did the notion cross Beatrice 's mind that Lovat was having carnal thoughts which he knew could never be fulfilled . |
| 4 | Not like the old days when me and two women from the village did the lot . |
| 5 | And as he passed along the line , the men near him cried , ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ afresh , and their comrades in the distance did the same . |
| 6 | Nowhere in the world did the railway station represent so powerfully the combination of an intrusive technical power together with the search for national identity as in Latin America . |
| 7 | He just did n't look the right sort of boy — in the bathroom mirror he saw his wishy-washy face , freckled and slightly spotty , his wishy-washy blue eyes staring mournfully back ; in no way did the image relate to the brown , sparkling athletes who drank beer after a game of soccer in the commercials . |
| 8 | ‘ A great crowd assembled , ’ runs the report in The Sexual Life of Our Time , ’ from the midst of which the unfortunate couple were removed in a closed carriage , and taken to the hospital , and not until chloroform had been administered to the girl did the spasm pass off and free the man . ’ |
| 9 | On no occasion did the number of protesters reach more than a few hundred . |
| 10 | At no stage did the Alliance make any serious impact or strike any distinctive note . |
| 11 | Although the 1914–18 war quickened the speed of the decline in fertility and resulted , during a loss of around 600,000 unborn children who would otherwise have been brought into the world , at no time did the rate touch the low level at which it stood in 1939 . |
| 12 | Certainly , at no time did the lift pass anything like 6,000 tons a day . |
| 13 | At no time did the King mention the progress of the war , and it was hardly the place or time to open the subject . |
| 14 | At no time did the abbey relinquish to these groups any of its tight control over economic life . |
| 15 | Common action on issues at a local level seemed threatened , but at no time did the war seriously compromise the determination of labour leaders to defend living conditions ; in many instances the struggle was intensified , although not to the point of sabotaging the war effort . |
| 16 | At no time did the French Federation issue a statement deploring the behaviour of their national coach . |
| 17 | Naturally , with the increasing prosperity of Scotland in the course of the eighteenth century , the value of minor private patronage diminished , but it could be replaced on occasion by alternatives , and at no time did the agents of administration control all available employment . |
| 18 | At no time did the defendants tell the plaintiff of Mr. Perot 's proposed purchase of Vertigo and it is this fact which has given rise to the present litigation . |
| 19 | Checking his purchases against her list as he approached the checkout , he was pleased to find that at no point did the two coincide . |