Example sentences of "did [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you did that without a calculator did n't you ? |
| 2 | I spat into my fingers and used them , then found his foreskin was loose enough to be rolled back and forth over the head , and did that for a while . |
| 3 | well he did that for a while |
| 4 | I did that for a year until the scheme finished . |
| 5 | they did that for the school children |
| 6 | I did that for the nose |
| 7 | They had taken all she had , and nobody did that to a woman of Liverpool and got away with it . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Marie , ‘ Simon always said it was you did that to the kiosk . |
| 9 | Clatting the neeps and in Aberdeen they called them yowing And y We had your clatt as the yow they called it the hoe , the yow They cleared the Did that to the drill . |
| 10 | I did that on the basis that it is very difficult to scrutinise the Bill 's Scottish aspects , complicated and far-reaching as they are , as they impact on a very distinct and separate local government tradition and system within the framework of United Kingdom legislation . |
| 11 | Yeah I did that on the car the other day . |
| 12 | Erm and if did that with a car battery , erm it 'll probably explode . |
| 13 | It was thing with two prongs and you tap it in like that and it lifted the neeps , then you did that with the yeuk |
| 14 | Oh yes , did that at the beginning for for a long time . |
| 15 | She always did that after a row . |
| 16 | If you did that in the Boat Race you would get left behind . |
| 17 | That was a , we did that in the conference room downstairs . |
| 18 | On a hot day the engine-out rate of climb did little for the blood pressure . |
| 19 | It did little for the image of a man who has been part of the backbone of the team for so long , and was playing in his eighty-seventh Test . |
| 20 | Although Nicholas 's victories over the Persians in 1828 and the Ottoman Empire in 1829 had made him temporarily safe from international complications in this area , they did little for the extension of Russian control over the peoples who lived to the north of Georgia . |
| 21 | This remarkable volte face did little for the president 's public reputation , was the cause of much scathing comment in the media and , not surprisingly , a poll revealed that 86 per cent of Americans , ‘ had no confidence in the ability of the President to manage the economy ’ . |
| 22 | In 1963 , as now , the BBC did little in the way of in-house prop building due to the time and resources required for these highly specialised operations . |
| 23 | Mrs Hellyer only came once a week and though Dad did some of the housework , shuffling round in the mornings and yawning , almost everything had a skin of dust over it and smelt mouldy , like furniture stored in an attic . |
| 24 | Perhaps he did some of the work on them , but I do n't believe he did everything sold under his name . ’ |
| 25 | Only as discussions settled down to specifics did some of the reasoning become clear . |
| 26 | he did some of the flying himself but he had other pilots . |
| 27 | We did this towards the end of the holiday . |
| 28 | Once I did this under the eye of a policeman who nabbed me for parking on a yellow line when I emerged from the bank a few minutes later . |
| 29 | We did this over the summer . |
| 30 | When I did this at the table , the player in the West seat went ‘ into the tank ’ , a bridge expression for a deep trance . |