Example sentences of "did [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did it on the sloping lid of a locker , our jeans and knickers round our ankles . |
| 2 | Can there be anything more telling about the deviousness of these people than his account of how they actually put on television and interviewed a man who was said to have died while in a prison cell , and that , moreover , they did it with the sole motive of demonstrating that he was alive and in good health . |
| 3 | But somehow Sampras did reach it and Forget managed to make sure with his second volley and said later ‘ … but I 'm not quite sure how I did it with the wrong grip ’ . |
| 4 | Well , I mean , if we , if we did it with the free ferry , and there 's a possibility we might be able to get fairly cheap accommodation if we drove over there and stayed . |
| 5 | So she did it in the early morning before the Men came , or in the warm evenings when the Zoo gates were shut . |
| 6 | I did it in the dull knowledge that there was no way I could get up that hill . |
| 7 | He did it in the classic manner , by pitching the ball well up and bowling very , very quickly , and the fact that he needed help from his colleagues for only two of those wickets shows just how accurate he was . |
| 8 | ‘ Tennents did it in the wrong way . |
| 9 | Did he from the rich and give to the poor ? |