Example sentences of "did [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it 's funny to see it written in stone , as it were , something that I did off the top of my head . ’ |
| 2 | This must have been a most amazing sight , coming as it did as the climax of a much longer event staged beforehand outside Wanstead House itself . |
| 3 | ‘ Or desperate , ’ suggested Bob , who knew rather more than Comfort did about the straits to which many Parisians had been reduced by the war . |
| 4 | And my employers Fitch ( Groupe Bull , Southern Electricity ) lost more sleep over whether the colours in our new letterhead would allow it to make any sense coming off a client 's monochrome fax machine than they ever did about the evocation of caring values . |
| 5 | The aim of the conference will be to do for this junction of Europe and Asia what the Helsinki conference in 1975 did for the rest of Europe . |
| 6 | Why does not he address the problem seriously and put real money into solving it — or will he continue to opt out and sell out , just as the Prime Minister did for the country in Maastricht yesterday ? |
| 7 | This is not therefore the work of an out-and-out Comtean positivist , but of a man who had some sensitivity to the nuances of primitive worldviews , as he did for the problems of children and of his patients . |
| 8 | A new Herriot ( in this case Every Living Thing , published by Michael Joseph ) does not need to be torn to pieces on the book page of the Times , but there was Robert Crampton trying to make a reputation for himself : ‘ James Herriot did for the Yorkshire Dales in the seventies what Peter Mayle did for the hills of Provence in the eighties . |
| 9 | Conservatives have decided to do for the freedom fighters what the American left of the '30s did for the Communists in Spain . |
| 10 | The catechist will read out in the same way as we did for the Celebration of Enrolment , erm whichever catechist is doing will say I present to you and call out a name , and you stand up in your seat with your parents . |
| 11 | ‘ Elizabeth ’ I got out and , suddenly emboldened , ‘ Like our great queen ’ I added , hoping I had guessed the correct period , thought it did for the present as a well . |
| 12 | It drew to an end in April 1964 with Mr Mandela 's four-hour speech from the dock , in which he defended the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe and said he had done what he did for the ideal of a free and democratic society , ‘ an ideal for which I am prepared to die ’ . |
| 13 | That meant that Jews , Romans , Egyptians , Phoenicians , Babylonians and even the Indians ( Asoka 's edicts ) entered Greek literature with contributions of their own : what Xanthus did for the Lydians in the fifth century B.C. became a routine performance . |
| 14 | Future skiing development in the Cairngorms and elsewhere in Scotland now looks even more uncertain than it did after the Secretary of State 's unhappy intervention in the Lurchers Gully dispute last autumn . |
| 15 | It was a disagreeable story and coming as it did after the impact of the portrait it provoked in Dalgliesh a mixture of depression and foreboding which he tried to shake off as irrational . |
| 16 | The group least represented in proportion to its population , Sinhalese Buddhists , accounted for an even smaller proportion of sergeants than they did of the force as a whole . |
| 17 | One thing that went seriously wrong is that we did n't hear more of Neil Kinnock speaking as he did amid the wreckage of his political hopes and personal career . |
| 18 | This has come about because southern politics were so dominated by the Democratic party in the century after the Civil War that many of its Senators and Representatives faced sterner re-election contests in the Primary elections within their own party ( i.e. for the right to stand for the Democrats again ) than they did against the Republicans in the election itself . |
| 19 | I feel you should have maybe said , ‘ Yes , Eric , okay , that 's really relevant , ’ and then edited the comment out just as you did with the rest of my letter . |
| 20 | Are you going to tell me what you did with the jar at school ? |
| 21 | Coinciding as it did with the announcement of major price rises for key consumer products , and with growing concern about rising levels of unemployment , Walesa 's stated ambition to foment " permanent political war " within the Polish system threatened a severe destabilization of the Government 's political platform . |
| 22 | Amid it all was their constant awareness of Moran 's watching presence , sharpening everything they did with the danger of letting something fall and break and bring the weight of his disapproval into the small chain . |
| 23 | I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 24 | When they were asked to make a rhyming judgement , the shadowing interfered with performance , as it did with the judgements about rhyming word pairs . |
| 25 | Now can you see what I did with the lid at them ? |
| 26 | Drawing the assembly to a close , the Bishop said : ‘ It is good to meet people where they are as Christ did with the woman at the well , gradually leading her to understanding . |
| 27 | He turned from her , pulled his trousers over his still damp shorts , and did up the zip without a trace of self-consciousness . |
| 28 | As we slipped into the boat and did up the straps of the slalom C2 , I ran through a quick mental check list , collect beer cans , paddle , spraydeck on , ring ? |
| 29 | The senate , however , consisted of more members of the nobility than of the emerging burgher class , for their economic situation was not strong enough to enable them to develop as they did in the cities of northern Italy and elsewhere in Europe . |
| 30 | When the Cortes returned to liberated Madrid ( 5 January 1814 ) and the Desired One to Spain , the Persians , a group of conservative deputies , petitioned the king to denounce the constitution of 1812 ; this he did in the Manifesto of 4 May 1814 . |