Example sentences of "was do [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The healing was done through the spirit .
2 We said in the chapter that this was done through the medium of arriving at a written-down cost or value .
3 The operation was done through the midline scar and the recurrent tumour was removed from the right upper rectus together with surrounding unaffected tissue .
4 At a popular level this was done through the transmission of beliefs and practices through folk-lore .
5 This system interconnected the rudder and ailerons and did away with rudder pedals ; all the flying was done with the yoke .
6 ‘ And what his idea was , in a way I suppose , was just to see the position which I had to get the horse into before he had the job with the mare ; and he wondered how the job was done with the harness I 'd got on .
7 We wish we could publish an account of what was done with the money .
8 In the larger provincial firm ( D ) the research was done with the probate partner .
9 What was done with the calf
10 If there has to be a last minute addition to the contract after the document has been prepared and is awaiting exchange , it could be written into the draft contract before exchange , or some reference to it could be added to the contract so long as all that was done with the authority of the parties who signed it .
11 Every piece of carving on the Chindit , which stands about 3ft high , was done with the Woodcarver
12 Every piece of carving on the Chindit , which stands about 3ft high , was done with the Woodcarver
13 When it was done before in the republic , you wan na quote history , you wan na quote it accurately , it was done with the agreement of a sovereign people .
14 It was done with the co-operation and permission of the Nature Conservancy Council so as to avoid ecological damage , and I would like to point out politely that it is a private road .
15 This was done with the collaboration of the Braun workshop , and V. V. Reiner who painted the sala terrena in the garden .
16 After 4 to 6 weeks , cytofluorometry was done with the bulk cultures using a FACScan ( Becton and Dickinson ) .
17 But in October 1341 , relieved of financial pressure by the desertion of some allies and by the bankruptcy of his Italian bankers , Edward repealed the offending statutes , though it is significant that it was done with the advice and assent of the earls , barons and other wise men .
18 ‘ How did Lord Wittisham happen to have atropine with him , if it was done on the spur of the moment ? ’
19 Most turnpiking was done on the north to south roads , although some cross-country in-filling occurred later ; they were less new roads than improvements on old ones , designed particularly to ease the movements of goods and the aristocracy to their country estates .
20 Much of this engineering work was wasted at the time , for it was done on the eve of the railway age and never put to good use — not until the twentieth century .
21 If a messenger be sent by the Lord Chief Justice in Eyre to take into custody some of the most substantial , as was done on the return of King Charles the Second , it may prevent further destruction .
22 If a text needed to be amended , or comment made on it , this was done on the file itself , either on the relevant paper within the file or on a note attached to it .
23 As testing was done on the basis of parental choice these infants would not be screened .
24 That was done on the basis of professional advice .
25 However , it must be recognised that such claims for compensation would involve an extension of Francovich , both because that was a case of complete non-implementation , not just defective implementation , and because the UK government could argue that its implementation of the Directive in 1981 was done on the basis of its good faith understanding of what European law then required and so there was no element of fault in its decision-making at that time .
26 And going back to the taking of the bread to the erm er bakehouse erm if there was a fire going they did n't do that , because they were baked in the oven , but in the summertime we did it more often than in the winter , because if there was no fire you see , there was no gas cooker or anything like that , all the cooking was done on the coal fire and the oven at the side of it .
27 A check was done on the pH and a proprietary acid buffer was added to bring it down to 6.5 Softening resin was added in a box filter to bring down the hardness to 8°DGH .
28 The system was complicated by the introduction at a late stage of a further provision enabling federal states to designate more than one Central Authority ; this was done on the suggestion of the German Federal Republic ( which had previously resisted the British proposal as tending to multiply Central Authorities ) to enable expression to be given to the sovereignty of the German Länder in the field of justice , and does require the applicant to identify the Land in question .
29 Until an audit was done at the unit we did n't realise quite how much , but we do require donations for us to be here .
30 And it was done at the convent hospital , where the anaesthetist there , not only gave this gentlemen a general anaesthetic but also a spinal anaesthetic as well .
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