Example sentences of "[coord] did a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she turned and walked towards the deep end , turned again and did a perfect back flip , hardly denting the surface and coming up into a smooth breaststroke only a few feet away from me . |
| 2 | The county 's director of cricket , Geoff Cook , said : ‘ Dean was very popular up here and did a perfect job for us on and off the pitch . ’ |
| 3 | Medic Mike Jackson said : ‘ When we arrived there was total chaos but officers had administered emergency first aid and did a good job stemming the blood and calming the girl . ’ |
| 4 | Superb ‘ Ray has been superb in the last couple of games , and Steve came in and did a good job . |
| 5 | Or for Kevin Sharp , who played left back at the end of last season , and did a good job of it , too . |
| 6 | ‘ Owen came into defence and did a good job . |
| 7 | The Braithwaites , Joseph and Daniel , were employed on a regular basis as masons and did a great deal of work , not only on the mine , but off it , such as at Cat Bank where a large amount of walling was required apart from the actual building . |
| 8 | The Hydro Board were playing tunes with their dams , and did a great deal to lessen the impact by holding back as much water as they could . |
| 9 | I blew lines repeatedly and did a terrible job , and I knew I would n't get the part . ’ |
| 10 | As soon as you got out of sight , you altered direction and did a wide loop so you could sneak up behind us . ’ |
| 11 | I seem to remember they put it in mono and did a limited edition in stereo which , for those days , was a fairly advanced piece of thinking . |
| 12 | Not in the sense that the County Council went out and did a measured assessment which said , Right this particular district can accommodate X thousand dwellings in areas which are n't greenbelt or which are greenbelt or individual factors . |
| 13 | I did an evening ride along some backblocks roads , all gravel , and the next day we all hired bikes and did a similar route . |
| 14 | Mr. Gordon came back to Salisbury upon retirement , was Councillor for St. Martin 's Ward , then Mayor of the City and did a grand job in cataloguing the City 's Archives . |
| 15 | Waters reversed the Shogun and did a backward handbrake turn , shooting off in a cloud of exhaust fumes and clods of grass and earth . |
| 16 | And how was it to be achieved — was there agreement about it within the leadership and the wider society , and did a political agency exist that could bring it into being ? |
| 17 | Hill was a key part of the 1991 Grand Slam team but admitted : ‘ Dewi won the shirt last season and did a terrific job as the lads won the Slam for a second successive year . |
| 18 | Assistant Alan King said : ‘ Waterloo Boy is in fine shape and did a lovely piece of work on Saturday morning . |
| 19 | Eric and myself went out and did a physical re-count last week of wha a whole bay of because numbers were n't adding up . |
| 20 | During that time I held honorary NHS senior registrar status and , to maintain my clinical skills , was on call once a week as a resident registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology and did a full day 's operating list once every two weeks . |
| 21 | Then her heart stopped aching and did a painful jerk . |
| 22 | The next morning we walked up the glacier and did a lengthy rock scramble , the Trifthorn ( 3,728 metres ) , partly to acclimatise , and partly because Martin had tried it a few years earlier and failed to reach the top . |
| 23 | But then they went up and did a whole loada stuff for the miners . |
| 24 | Petrie 's recollection of Charles Manning is less rosy than Grace 's : ‘ He had long white hair , was billed as the Svengali of Music , and pranced around , stooping and conducting with hair and fingers dangling as he gesticulated comically and did a little dance on the podium ’ . |
| 25 | He played banjo for a living and did a little woodwork on the side : fitting a bathroom here , a kitchen there , anywhere but at home . |
| 26 | The bacon and the cheese had all been transferred to the room-sized storage refrigerator behind the shop , and while her husband was out of the way Rennie Hamilton loaded all the groceries into the canvas bag and did a quick addition on the list and noted the amount on the end of the growing column in the credit book . |
| 27 | Billy hunched his shoulders and did a quick shuffle . |
| 28 | ‘ But how do you take out — ’ I looked at the Filofax page and did a quick count — ‘ eight market-makers at once ? ’ |
| 29 | He saw an opportunity and did a screeching U-turn . |
| 30 | It was not large but did a fairish trade . |