Example sentences of "[vb past] do [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That of course is exactly what Akhenaten tried to do at the beginning another example the return of the repressed its original religious intolerance . |
| 2 | Some are reduced from earlier polyphonic forms , others were expanded into them ( just as Selle promised to do in the preface to his Mono-Phonetiea , published at Hamburg in 1636 , his earliest really monodic publication ) . |
| 3 | I did n't make any enquiries about how the laundry got done until the day I ran out of clean tights . |
| 4 | Each one of their jobs I 'd done except the carriage cleaning of course , but of course that was a straightforward job , cleaning carriages . |
| 5 | But it could also mean that erm they were getti that it they had been successful in getting taxation from what they 'd done since the beginning of cos they felt they could go even further . |
| 6 | We all imagined he had some secret new money-spinning idea and soon we 'd all be amazed at what he 'd done to the place , and coming here to marvel at the crowds he 'd managed to attract … but I do n't think he was ever looking for a site for some viable business venture ; I think he was just looking for somewhere suited to his burned-out , fed-up , pissed-off mood . |
| 7 | You know I mean it 's so annoying and I wish now I 'd done at the time , wrote their names down . |
| 8 | Penny says a close friend recently asked her to sum up what she thought she 'd done for the Princess of Wales . |
| 9 | I was stuck there like a flying buttress between the floor and the pillar , and Jamie was still gibbering away to the girl about the sound a Triumph makes and the high-speed runs she 'd done up the side of Loch Lomond at night . |
| 10 | Er we showed him one or two examples of similar sorts of presentations that we 'd had from other railway and outside organizations , er explained what we 'd done in the past , said that we were looking to get something more up-market and more erm professional , which was why we were looking to er er seek er quotes from er g graphics designers , linked in with printers . |
| 11 | I the work I 'd done in the past the training I 've had the experience I 've had with Hector and his work that was all leading up to that . |
| 12 | All 180 kids gathered right at his feet and he did a completely different show from any show that he 'd done in the sell-out places for five or six thousand . |
| 13 | So I gave you a topic sport or a hobby or an interest that you had and you produced a thought pattern for that just as we 'd done in the practice one with the subject of water , but then we moved on a stage further to get what are called a structured thought pattern . |
| 14 | Just glancing through my logbook of 1939-40 , I find it astonishing how little we seemed to do before the advent of the German breakthrough in the Low Countries , I see what are described as security patrols , where we flew , and in daylight . |
| 15 | And he said it was n't his fault , he , he told to do by the script writers , but I mean it 's to make out that he had no right to , it 's ridiculous . |
| 16 | My electrical capabilities go no further than being able to wire a plug — and even that we are n't ( officially ) allowed to do in the lab : the safety regulations demand that a qualified electrician should carry out this skilled task . |
| 17 | It 's no excuse that the salesman did not know what the customer planned to do with the recorder , even if it is labelled with a warning about not taping copyright records or films . |
| 18 | What has all this grand talk about moral universals got to do with the micro-scale empirical sociology which I originally held up as the characteristic of my kind of social anthropology ? |
| 19 | ‘ But what 's all this humping and dipping got to do with the colour of the light ? ’ |
| 20 | What have stocks and stones got to do with the matter ? |
| 21 | I suppose I had persuaded myself that sending men to prison was n't something I cared to do for the rest of my life . |
| 22 | Either House may set up a committee of inquiry into any matter it wishes , as the House of Commons chose to do on the occasion of the Aberfan disaster of 1966 . |
| 23 | One night he trotted across the hearth and proceeded to do on the video recorder what trained dogs do outside — usually on trees ! |
| 24 | Since ownership passed to the legatee without performance having taken place , it was much harder to see that he actually did do with the legacy what the testator had intended . |
| 25 | I did do in the front , er , yes . |
| 26 | David Southworth who owned the hall and who was the nephew of Tace 's widow , had done up the lodge as a home for his wife 's mother but since her death it had stood empty . |
| 27 | She had a second helping , as she had done of the casserole . |
| 28 | But the memory of what he had done to the corpse was so painful Marek obliterated it from his mind . |
| 29 | In place of Aristotle 's association of time with motion and his appeal to the uniform daily revolution of the heavens as its basis , St Augustine turned , not as Plotinus had done to the concept of the ‘ world-soul ’ , but to the human mind for the ultimate source and standard of time . |
| 30 | ‘ That first night of Luxembourg , when she turned that marvellous duet into a slapstick comedy routine and I complained to the Direktor about it — you knew I complained about what she had done to the duet , did n't you , Ingrid ? ’ |