Example sentences of "it did [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On the contrary , my lovely , it did a great deal for me . |
| 2 | When it got within spitting distance of Mafouz , who was now standing , arms loosely apart , mouth open , as if hypnotized by the thing 's movements , it did a sharp turn to the left , bounced along horizontally for a few yards , and then snarled up and down to land on the unfortunate boy 's head . |
| 3 | Mr Davies challenged the usual assumption that the line was a failure , pointing out that it did a good job for the district , particularly in transporting goods in the days before motor transport . |
| 4 | Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses illustrated that while our now largely secular society regards blasphemy as rather less heinous than it did a hundred years ago some parts of our society are offended to such an extent that the call for retribution goes beyond censorship . |
| 5 | Following the election result , it seems almost inevitable that Labour will adopt a commitment to some form of proportional representation ( writes Backchat 's ‘ things that seem almost inevitable following the election result ’ correspondent ) , although , ironically , it seems considerably less inevitable now than it did a few weeks ago . |
| 6 | And in its $1.7 billion purchase of Stauffer , another American chemicals firm , in 1987 it did a passable impersonation of Hanson , paying for most of the bid with $1.15 billion of asset sales . |
| 7 | It did a Big Ben chime , and I heard a chorus of kids ' shouts from inside . |
| 8 | It did a fine job of clearing the muck and aerating the water . |
| 9 | In fact , however , it did no such thing . |
| 10 | Provided that it did no positive harm , they reckoned , it could spread unchecked under its own impetus . |
| 11 | This reversed the action of the pitch , elevator and tail rotor channels so that the model handled in exactly the same manner inverted as it did the normal way up . |
| 12 | It did the Labour party a great deal of damage , from which it is still recovering . |
| 13 | Through the late Seventies , black America was noted for cultural solidarity of impressive dimensions a shared drive for rights and representation which powered art and music no less than it did the Civil Rights movement . |
| 14 | It turned out to be erm used more fully as a family centre , where families would come and spend half a day , than it did the casual pop-in arts centre , which the old arts laboratories or the more conventional arts centre perhaps were directed towards . |
| 15 | Encore Computer Corp must be wondering whether it did the right thing in selling the Annex server product line to Xylogics Inc . |
| 16 | Witton to Electric House quarter of an hour , Electric House to Rushmere Heath , quarter of an hour and it did the reverse direction . |
| 17 | It does n't bother me the way it did the first time . |
| 18 | And even if a miracle somehow happened and he agreed to try again , it would simply end up exactly the same way it did the first time . |
| 19 | ‘ It would bore the rest of the company even more than it did the first time . ’ |
| 20 | And so it did the other night , when I heard two undergrads , giving a list of pleasures which were ( a ) Nazi , ( b ) leading to homosexuality . |
| 21 | yes well it did the other week |
| 22 | First , it failed because it did not benefit the poor as much as it did the middle classes . |
| 23 | Output only declined during part of the period , but when it did the geographical pattern was the same as for employment . |
| 24 | Arguably , this public proclamation of secretarian communist beliefs during the election campaign , alerting as it did the bourgeois authorities to the subversive political activities of this " Red Messiah " , and resulting in Nizan 's transfer to Auch , precipitated his decision to become a fully integrated member of the PCF . |
| 25 | taking it cos it did the same thing . |
| 26 | Though Lewis is said to have found the task of writing these letters morally exhausting — entailing as it did the ceaseless identification of himself with the malign and diabolical point of view — their great strength is that , rather like a dramatic monologue by Browning , they reveal the speaker without succumbing to his terrible outlook . |
| 27 | Following as it did the enormous publicity that surrounded the child abuse allegations in Cleveland , Nottingham , and Rochdale , Orkney Islands Council were strangely unprepared for the wide interest their own case attracted . |
| 28 | The adoption of a co-operative strategy in 1934 rapidly brought the PCF back into the mainstream of French party politics , capturing as it did the popular imagination of the French nation . |
| 29 | It was against this background of ‘ stagflation ’ that monetarism increasingly became more influential , providing as it did an alternative explanation of the economic problems of the time as well as a potential remedy . |
| 30 | It did an outstanding job there , but the state of roads in the western part where there are areas of high unemployment such as Derry , Tyrone and Fermanagh — as exemplified by the Derry to Strabane road — are still in need of urgent development . |