Example sentences of "did [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And did you in due course , go to the flat ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We did it with Dangerous Lady , too , which was an amazing success for us last year [ it sold some 130,000 copies ] . |
| 5 | And if you did it with real panache , and with a sense of luxury , it was called Gran Turismo . |
| 6 | It 's perhaps perhaps easier to see it as the as the N As and the O Hs though okay or if we did it with sulphuric acid we 'd have hydrogen sulphate plus sodium hydroxide what 's that going to give us ? |
| 7 | Out of the corner of her mouth — and she did it with great flair — Sorrel said : |
| 8 | He managed to turn Llewelyn 's imposing new title , compounded of the old sacred name for a reassurance to the Welsh , and the added flourish for English ears that had scarcely heard of Aberffraw , into a satirical comment , but he did it with great delicacy . |
| 9 | He had come to it relatively late in his short life , having dulled the joys of promiscuity , music and organization early on , and like everything else he took an interest in , he did it with terrifying brilliance . |
| 10 | Like the prophets of the Old Testament , she was compelled to reprove sinners , especially those in high places , such as the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and , like the prophets , she did it with immense tactlessness . |
| 11 | He did it through sheer will-power , Peter had told her admiringly . |
| 12 | And Britain 's greatest-ever sprinter , aiming to become the oldest man in history to win the coveted crown , did it by humbling drug cheat Ben Johnson last night in front of 61,000 spectators and a worldwide television audience . |
| 13 | She did it by careful eating and taking more exercise and , whatever anyone else tries to tell you , that is the only way to be sure of losing weight . |