Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This claim gave rise to much discussion in the local and national Press , and the Portuguese Government did eventually settle the claim in full in 1853 . |
| 2 | The player did eventually join the Peacocks , but under unusual and unforeseen circumstances . |
| 3 | Although they had already proved their skills with other publications , this book probably did most to signal the arrival of the Japanese as major quality printers in western markets . |
| 4 | A full survey even of German theology in that period would have had to mention very many more , and to bring out a far wider range of approaches and issues ; but we have attended particularly to those whose legacy did most to shape the background to more recent thought . |
| 5 | The imposition of an additional levy on alien exporters in 1303 had led to English merchants playing a major part in handling wool shipments later in the century , but it was Edward III 's war taxation for his French campaigns , much of which was derived from levies on wool exports , which did most to promote the development of cloth manufacture in England , by creating a tariff barrier which raised the costs of the raw material to the foreign manufacturers . |
| 6 | George Headley and Learie Constantine were the giants of the early Test years who did most to establish the team ; Garfield Sobers was for twenty years the supreme all-rounder of the game 's history ; Clive Lloyd devised the concept of a quartet of pace bowlers who would carry all relentlessly before them . |
| 7 | It was probably Thomas William Coke ( later the Earl of Leicester ) of Holkham Hall , Norfolk , on the other side of England , who did most to introduce the Devon elsewhere . |
| 8 | Nevertheless it was the British navy which pioneered the two inventions which did most to increase the efficiency of eighteenth-century men-of-war . |
| 9 | Close to the Inchnadamph Hotel , a monument commemorates the work of the two geologists who did most to unravel the secrets of these rock movements : Ben Peach and John Horne , colleagues of Archibald Geikie of the Geological Survey in Scotland in 1907 . |
| 10 | ‘ It did rather trash the town . |
| 11 | You did right chopping the Governor down and setting fire to the forum — but do n't tell them I said so . |
| 12 | But unless I talked out the issue with others , or wrote it up in my diary , it may be far from clear even to myself whether or not I did verbally formulate the alternatives . |
| 13 | But what I did only shifted the dust about . |
| 14 | But in those rare flashes when one can shed the present self and all it is in command of I realise that there were really only two occasions when I did personally feel the times on my pulse in such a way that I remember them , and not what I have since reconstructed of them . |
| 15 | When Alan Cairns and other leading ministers opposed the candidacy of William McCrea and James McClelland they did so to preserve the interests of the Free Church and not to aid the DUP by reducing the public presence of Free Presbyterianism in the lists of candidates . |
| 16 | When early Christians adopted the pagan altar they did so to represent the table of the Last Supper and placed upon it a white cloth symbolic of the Shroud . |
| 17 | Thomson invites Ormanroyd to move forward and he drives it on and as he did so presume the referee has whistled for a free kick for the challenge by Gemmell , yes he has . |
| 18 | He claimed he only did so to seal the sale of a barbecue which was damaged . |
| 19 | Little is known of his early life except for his recollection that at the age of nine or ten he ‘ did so offend the Lord that He did scare and terrify me with dreadful visions ’ , and that he was greatly afflicted at that time with thoughts of the Day of Judgement . |
| 20 | When South Africa suspended its proposed seal hunt in 1990 , it did so to await the results of additional scientific research into questions about ‘ harvesting ’ or ‘ culling ’ Cape fur seals ( see BBC WILDLIFE , October 1990 , p699 ) . |
| 21 | There was no time to get back into the right position , take a breath and gently squeeze the trigger ; it was up and bang , and with my whole body unbalanced and both hands on the gun I fell forward , rolling as I did so to keep the gun out the sand . |
| 22 | Finally , in the 1950s and 60s , new systems of rural credit were established in the district of Ludhiana which did appreciably alter the balance of power in Manupur . |
| 23 | I did not usurp power but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power , in other words this is the modesty part I acted for the public welfare , I acted for the common wellbeing of all our people whenever and in whatever manner was necessary unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition Roosevelt suggested that the president subject only to the people of the United States and he identified himself with Andrew Jackson and with Abraham Lincoln . |
| 24 | O'Connell 's header found Graham completely unmarked inside the penalty box but Goram did enough to touch the ball on to the bar . |
| 25 | Charity did guiltily drop the glasses . |
| 26 | Could I just clarify one other point , erm I did incorrectly advise the panel on the ten miles . |
| 27 | Trilateralism was certainly an effective antidote to isolationism , even if it did not extinguish the assertiveness shown by the Lord Chancellor 's Department in securing a faster growth in the rate of expenditure on the courts and legal aid than did the Home Office on the police and prisons . |
| 28 | This was a novel requirement and appeared inconsistent with the decision of the Lords in Newbury , where the defendants did not aim the stone , which killed the victim , at him . |
| 29 | The first rehearsals of an opéra would often be chaos if his talents , or activity , did not clarify the performance . |
| 30 | Her work entailed taking orders and payments for hampers , but when she was asked to supply hampers to one customer she kept the money and did not deliver the hampers . |