Example sentences of "did [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In despair , I did nothing for another week . |
| 2 | The fact that the Commission sat on its hands and did nothing during these events must be taken as some indication of the prevailing mood in Brussels . |
| 3 | Did someone in this room believe he was God 's executioner to avenge a good man 's death ? |
| 4 | He was a different type of skater but he did plenty of modern lip stuff including backside smith stop to fakie , and much other to-fakie weirdness . |
| 5 | Did you at any stage draw your revolver ? |
| 6 | Did you at any stage take the revolver out of the holster ? |
| 7 | And did you in due course , go to the flat ? |
| 8 | ‘ Did you by any chance get to see New Canaan , Connecticut , between March 1 and April 14 last year ? |
| 9 | Lewis taking over from the greatest at the pavilion er Lawrence and er , first time we 've seen Lawrence this morning , and on the subject of frustration Victor which you were just airing then , did you by any chance see Tony Locke at er Old Trafford when Laker took his . |
| 10 | I did none of these things . |
| 11 | Is n't it about time somebody did something about this type of rip-off ? |
| 12 | I was there forty years , right , I 've seen every accident on that bend , I 've had my house as a first aid post a dozen times , until we did something in this committee to sort that corner out |
| 13 | Did one in such circumstances ? |
| 14 | ‘ He did everything for that dog and thought the world of him . |
| 15 | He did everything at breakneck speed and was insatiably sociable , always turning up when Jane was particularly busy , crashing into the room and asking jauntily : ‘ What 's everyone doing ? ’ |
| 16 | Certain institutions carried the same message : lineage welfare payments , for instance , and the solemnities of threatening vengeance and exacting a settlement , were adat ( customary ) , the way we have always done things , living reminders of a time when ‘ we did everything in this way ’ . |
| 17 | Now how did they in those days make the the track ? |
| 18 | He probably did it to countless women all the time . |
| 19 | but because he knew it was our troop , you know but erm , that 's the thing when you , nine times , about eight times out of ten you did it to another troop , but then again they did it back to you , but this time he was a right cocky son of a bitch , I mean we all liked him , but he was right cocky bastard , so he |
| 20 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 21 | W we tried internment before , it caused a massive escalation of violence cos you never , you get families are angry , it escalates the numbers who are committed to terrorism , last time it was just the Republicans , if we did it on both sides it would just escalate terrorism . |
| 22 | I did it for six months and reckon that at only 24 I did it pretty well . |
| 23 | ‘ I did it for eight years . |
| 24 | We did ask Dorothy to do it after I did it for four years , but she was n't keen and I had to go on . |
| 25 | I mean , I did it for four months and then I could n't do any more , I just think I mean , I know Amanda and Claire were a lot younger then and I think it 's difficult when they are they 're younger . |
| 26 | I decided that what I did it for small reasons |
| 27 | And they did it for 20-year-old centre-half Darren Salton , who is still in a coma and on a life support machine after Thursday 's road crash in which Paul Telfer was also injured . |
| 28 | Like , I did it for three nights and I was wrecked ! ’ |
| 29 | I think that to be a loner and a writer is hell enough , but many would instantly tell me how horrendous it is to work in a factory — 1 did it for three months and loathed it — or to go to their office and stop from biting their nails when their boss has to score petty points off them . |
| 30 | Mr. Gordon had persuaded Sir George Phillips , who was a rather crabby old man , to let them use the Park for their meetings , but , all the same , Judy had the feeling that Mr. Gordon did it for Brown Owl and not at all for the Brownies . |