Example sentences of "did the [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than she did the other army wives . |
| 2 | HANDYMAN Steve Flynn did the ultimate DIY job — as a do-it-yourself midwife . |
| 3 | Not until 1985 , however , did the long debate bear fruit , when an international competition was launched to design a suitable building . |
| 4 | With over 80 per cent of the seats in each house , many of them won by very large majorities indeed and a not insubstantial number having been uncontested by the Republican Party ( see Key 's ( 1949 ) classic volume on southern politics ) , did the Democratic Party need to pay large welfare benefits in order to win votes ? |
| 5 | Only towards the end of the 1920s did the central regime start to suppress Belorussian cultural institutions , and it was not until 1933 that general persecution of nationalism became prevalent in the area . |
| 6 | Once the party had shown itself , in the 1929–31 Parliament , unwilling to support Lloyd George 's programme of national reconciliation , it had no answer to the question : What did the Liberal party stand for ? |
| 7 | Other hospitals will not pick up , I do n't care what the Virginia Bottomleys says , or any of the others from the Kenneth Clarkes , he 's the one who did the major destruction job on the N H S. |
| 8 | So did the Canadian financier Conrad Black . |
| 9 | If the tax Madam speaker , is as obnoxious as the right honourable gentleman claims , then why did the Labour conference vote and I quote , For a general shift in taxation towards energy resource use ? |
| 10 | Well I did the odd movie bits in America , and er when I was a pop singer had a record in the charts in America but never done a play there . |
| 11 | The central London postmark did n't give any clues , nor did the good quality envelope . |
| 12 | Nor , indeed , did the young Deiran princes survive to claim their inheritance . |
| 13 | Did the young man Dominic Wetherby ever speak to you ? ’ |
| 14 | The House of Lords in Morris [ 1984 ] AC 320 said that s.3 contained only a partial definition , as indeed did the Criminal Law Revision Committee . |
| 15 | Only then did the amazing truth dawn . |
| 16 | As ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ was steadily devoured and after the initial hysteria had faded away , how did the new music stand in comparison to the angst-ridden image of the early band ? |
| 17 | While they were being asked to trim investment , the Government 's own policies were creating additional needs for investment in electricity distribution : airfields and other new defence installations for the Korean mobilisation , for example , required new electricity mains , as did the new housing estates which were a vital part of Labour 's drive for electoral popularity . |
| 18 | There might even be a piano in the working-class parlour hinting at ‘ affluence ’ , and the bicycle boom of the 1890s enlarged the mobility of many people — as did the new transport system of the tram . |
| 19 | The iced wall on Labyrinth Direct was unusually thick and had several ascents , as did the Hanging Garden routes . |
| 20 | It turned out to be erm used more fully as a family centre , where families would come and spend half a day , than it did the casual pop-in arts centre , which the old arts laboratories or the more conventional arts centre perhaps were directed towards . |
| 21 | The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal both sent representatives , as did the Scottish emergency services who tried to rescue the men of flight XV 193 . |
| 22 | The ELISA technique proved far less sensitive for identification of ulcerative colitis patients in inflammatory bowel disease but showed a higher specificity than did the indirect immunofluorescence assay . |
| 23 | Why did the previous job holder leave ? |
| 24 | So how did the full-blooded tabby pattern arise ? |
| 25 | The French open-air markets held great appeal for Laura , as did the Left Bank bouquinistes where she often found appealing old prints among the musty volumes . |
| 26 | Some may even have to countenance death , as did the German heptathlete Birgit Dressel , if they embark on a programme of drug-taking . |
| 27 | In what ways did the British Steel offer differ from other privatization issues ? |
| 28 | Which factor did the location-factor approach think was most important in the 1960s ? |
| 29 | RS-ORS and RP-ORS promoted more water absorption in secreting intestine than did the hypotonic glucose monomer solution , HYPO-ORS ( p<0.007 ) . |
| 30 | I did the whole washing machine |