Example sentences of "was do [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , this was done a long while ago , |
| 2 | That was done a different way from the other pictures . |
| 3 | Tonight , social services said nothing was done the first time because nobody believed the complaints . |
| 4 | Same as labour was done the other day . |
| 5 | Dalziel did n't mind being invested in as long as it was done the right way . |
| 6 | When it was done the whole house had acquired a new pleasantness and comfort . |
| 7 | When it was done the old man remarked that his dog was missing from it . |
| 8 | When it was done the reddish gold hair licked round the edge of her mob cap like a straight silken fringe , and there was no consoling her . |
| 9 | My first reaction was that she was to do no such thing . |
| 10 | I thought his job was to do a powerful production job , not rewrite songs . ’ |
| 11 | We had a superb response to our requests for sponsorship from all over the JM group , all that remained was to do the dirty deed ! |
| 12 | He himself would put the fear of God into the professors of Königsberg and Breslau ; I was to do the same thing in Danzig . |
| 13 | Sources at the investment bank said it was doing no such thing , although the shares neverthe less ended the session 6 ahead at 227p . |
| 14 | ‘ I was doing no such thing ! ’ she lied hotly . |
| 15 | ‘ I was doing no such thing , ’ she protested . |
| 16 | Next time I was doing a partial water change , I decided to investigate further , and took the piece of coral , complete with mushroom polyps , out of the tank , and working quickly to avoid damaging the polyps , cracked it in half with a cold chisel . |
| 17 | He may have been looking a bit weary , but he was doing a splendid linking job and Whitton found it hard fill the gap . |
| 18 | Ronan was entertaining them ; he was a good mimic and this time he was doing a fussy Brother in the school trying to get everyone to sit still in the big hall for a lecture . |
| 19 | Last year we were going to er a show at er and I was doing a modern arrangement and er , we were in Norman 's van . |
| 20 | At that point we had six teens and early twenties at home and I was doing a great deal of relating to young people . |
| 21 | Yes , well I was on a r a radio programme with him at one time and er and he was telling about some of his sticky stories , and there was one where he was doing a similar job from a farmhouse and he picked the furniture up and had to drive down this long drive to get onto the road and the the farmer , who presumably was the man who felt er an injustice to him was being done as it were , he was on his tractor , saw the van moving down the driveway , took a shortcut to the road edge , and fired a shotgun at his van . . |
| 22 | At 7.30 in the evening , the local inn , the Chequers , was doing a roaring trade . |
| 23 | To one side , a Sikh was doing a roaring trade in posters of Saddam Hussein . |
| 24 | apparently he went , he went round telling everybody erm he was doing a live exercise and he got singed or something but this , this erm , its Browndown on the South Coast and it was , it was a Christ it was a Christmas piss up , regiment Christmas piss up and anything goes , as long as you do n't physically hurt somebody , although that has been known to happen and its not criminal anything goes right , but honestly the worse you do to somebody the worse they do back to you , and people are getting tied bollock naked up the flag poles , dumped in bins , erm , tied in their beds , put out in the middle of the parade ground , fucking all sorts of things you know , like what we can do , the most common thing is nicking , you know the old walking pay slips they 've got |
| 25 | I met Pete Waterman first , he was doing a live radio show at a club in Liverpool . |
| 26 | Clare doubled her income overnight , and felt that she was doing a useful job . |
| 27 | So far as the housekeeping was concerned , Leopold had to admit that Constanze was doing a good job , and seemed to be extremely economical . |
| 28 | There is no doubt that this form of target language is unacceptable to English speakers , who might dismiss the interpreter or , more likely , assume that this was a function of the deaf person 's lack of knowledge of English ( and feel that the interpreter was doing a good job ) . |
| 29 | For an eagle who had been so ill Minch was doing a good job being terrifying . |
| 30 | The person started to read their paper on Moses , and I thought she was doing a good job of it , this guy suddenly got up and said , I 'm Jewish , I 'm not listening to any more of this , and stormed out . |