Example sentences of "did [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they did that for the school children |
| 2 | I did that for the nose |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Marie , ‘ Simon always said it was you did that to the kiosk . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yeah I did that on the car the other day . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Oh yes , did that at the beginning for for a long time . |
| 9 | If you did that in the Boat Race you would get left behind . |
| 10 | That was a , we did that in the conference room downstairs . |
| 11 | On a hot day the engine-out rate of climb did little for the blood pressure . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Perhaps he did some of the work on them , but I do n't believe he did everything sold under his name . ’ |
| 18 | Only as discussions settled down to specifics did some of the reasoning become clear . |
| 19 | he did some of the flying himself but he had other pilots . |
| 20 | We did this towards the end of the holiday . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We did this over the summer . |
| 23 | When I did this at the table , the player in the West seat went ‘ into the tank ’ , a bridge expression for a deep trance . |
| 24 | If I did this with the intention of deceiving people , would I be telling a lie ? |
| 25 | He did this on the advice of his father , who shared his misgivings about travelling on a passport in that name . |
| 26 | He , or the second horseman , did this for the whole of the field until it was marked out in equally spaced stetches . |
| 27 | Leeds invariably did this in the championship year . |
| 28 | The net result with HM was that staff spent a lot of time asking and cajoling him , but he did not respond or became disturbed , and staff eventually did much of the activity themselves . |
| 29 | Occasionally , he would take the place of one of the men , and he also did much of the ploughing of Handley Farm 's own lands . |
| 30 | With so many part-time holdings the wives did much of the feeding and tending of stock during the winter but it was an area where neither husbands nor wives had been active in training . |