Example sentences of "the [noun pl] did [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans did some pretty horrible things here and then the Allies came and , well , they did some pretty horrible things too . |
| 2 | But the authorities did little to identify those responsible ; eyewitness evidence was never followed up and no autopsy was performed . |
| 3 | Students did not feel safe , yet the authorities did little to protect them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Oh , when the lads did this , they went to great trouble to actually find the right sort of windows and what have you . |
| 6 | With foreign news the populars did less well on both counts . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Conservatives did little to change the social security system in the period 1951–64 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As gallery-owners , the Stangls did much to encourage Art Informel and the work of the ‘ Zen ’ group . |
| 11 | Builders in the wetlands did more than that however . |
| 12 | Such cosseting made passengers feel they were very special and the airlines did all they could to encourage distinguished people to fly with them Imperial Airways carried HM King Feisal from Baghdad to Gaza in 1927 and later took to publishing monthly lists of their important passengers . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the consultants did all their own research , both by telephone and in libraries . |
| 14 | With so many part-time holdings the wives did much of the feeding and tending of stock during the winter but it was an area where neither husbands nor wives had been active in training . |
| 15 | ‘ The Americans did that . |
| 16 | The answers did little to cheer her up . |
| 17 | The girls did this , then the three of them ran along the line to a corner . |
| 18 | The doctors did all that all he had was in the leg . |
| 19 | The liberals did little to win colonial opinion ; they restricted the number of American deputies in the new constitution lest American opinion should ‘ swamp ’ the Cortes ; they neglected the protests that the ‘ American ’ deputies already in Cadiz had no claims to represent American opinion ; they refused any substantial concession of freer trade . |
| 20 | The children did some excellent chocolate topping ! |