Example sentences of "the [noun] did [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Internecine feuds between Scottish aspirants to the throne did little to strengthen the national cause . |
| 2 | He claims he did the stunts while the stuntman did all his acting scenes , but this of course is just his little joke . |
| 3 | The computer did most of the hard work and produced four circles with radii 4,781 4,647 , 4,718 and 4,685 metres . |
| 4 | The Germans did some pretty horrible things here and then the Allies came and , well , they did some pretty horrible things too . |
| 5 | And the Express did little better . |
| 6 | The election did much to harm Lewis 's reputation in Oxford . |
| 7 | But the authorities did little to identify those responsible ; eyewitness evidence was never followed up and no autopsy was performed . |
| 8 | Students did not feel safe , yet the authorities did little to protect them . |
| 9 | Can I just say , Chairman , that the problem was that they asked for , the region asked for equal representation with the County Council , now if all the districts did that then there 'd be , then the Grants Panel would have about twenty one people to I mean , for the operation to go ahead . |
| 10 | Oh , when the lads did this , they went to great trouble to actually find the right sort of windows and what have you . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's funny , but I always thought the R.A.F. did all their flying at night . |
| 12 | And although it accepted that on the whole the department did all it could to control him , on the day he assaulted a 70-year-old woman the court ruled that he had n't been properly supervised , and ordered the council to pay 700 pounds in compensation . |
| 13 | ‘ The Countess did all she could for me , arranging for me to have the baby away from the Castle , because of gossip in the servants ’ hall , and afterwards she took me back into service . |
| 14 | ( If it was a public offering the priest did this . ) |
| 15 | The housemaid did any repairs , the needlework that wanted doing : that was the housemaid 's job . |
| 16 | With foreign news the populars did less well on both counts . |
| 17 | The cold did little to hinder the Orcs , for Orcs and Goblins are hardy creatures , and , if needs must , will eat any flesh no matter how foul or what manner of creature it comes from . |
| 18 | Er and so , to our credit er the management did this . |
| 19 | The balls and parties given by the Franklins did little to buoy up her spirits , being , as she described herself , ‘ such a shy , reserved being ’ , and she longed for the quiet , regular family life of home . |
| 20 | Oh the binder did that itself . |
| 21 | I think if the committee did that then we 'd be back to what five or six years ago , when a whole afternoon was spent on that and I would n't commend that to you , but can we perhaps have a word with the officers at a later stage , take it on board what both Graham and Anne have been saying , and obviously not trying to do that in a meeting like this but try to prepare for it a month before-hand . |
| 22 | He asked my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health whether he was prepared to measure the success by the simple test of whether the trusts did more or less work for the national health service . |
| 23 | The defendant 's fourth sub-head of complaint was that the judge did this when the jury had been deliberating for only an hour , citing Reg. v. McKenna [ 1960 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 24 | The Conservatives did little to change the social security system in the period 1951–64 . |
| 25 | Instead the adult should specify what the child did that was good : ‘ Good girl for putting your toys away ’ . |
| 26 | The ecologists did much less well than opinion polls predicted in elections to the 577-seat French National Assembly held in two rounds on March 21 and 28 , 1993 . |
| 27 | As gallery-owners , the Stangls did much to encourage Art Informel and the work of the ‘ Zen ’ group . |
| 28 | Builders in the wetlands did more than that however . |
| 29 | When the cheque was dishonoured the seller did all he could to trace the rogue and car and he informed the police . |
| 30 | The Iraquis did that as of second of August . |