Example sentences of "did [be] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Geyer writes : ‘ The new thing in history that Castro did was to destroy the Communist Party and create his own Fidelista Party , which he called Communist in order to stand up against the United States and to gain backing and to borrow power from the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 2 | All he did was to invoke the dubious metaphysical principle of " sufficient reason " in order to ensure the existential uniqueness of his monads and secure a basis for a meaningful distinction between numerical and qualitative identity . |
| 3 | One of the first things he did was to activate a small probe , with which he scanned his surroundings . |
| 4 | Sjahrir later acquired the reputation of a resistance leader , but although he refused to collaborate with the Japanese all he really did was to monitor the declining fortunes of Japan on his illegal radio . |
| 5 | ‘ No , no , what they did was attach a slow fuse to the gunpowder and left it coiled under the bed . ’ |
| 6 | What I did was prepare a supplementary form to the one that we had at the management team meeting |
| 7 | In fact this sweeping assertion seems rather too broad : what they did was impose a single procedural regime . |
| 8 | The last thing I did was to fire the blazing stream of petrol at the buck still sitting stuffed and dead and oozing blood in the forefront of the Grounds . |
| 9 | One of the most important things the VBK did was to start a privately-run school of art for women in 1868 . |