Example sentences of "a [noun] did [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So important a part did this crisis play in determining the events which are the subject of this report that they can not be properly understood without an appreciation of the extent to which the crisis overshadowed everything else that was happening in the area at the time . |
| 2 | They accepted that Massingham had gained his promotion on merit although they were not so naive as to suppose that being the elder son of a peer did any man harm . |
| 3 | If a horse did that , I 'd know he was a bad 'un . ’ |
| 4 | Yes , at sunrise on Christmas Eve four years ago and , it was important for us to do exactly what we wanted because erm it was a second wedding for both of us and it was also erm we wanted to have something that represented sort of the aspirations of love and so , sunrise erm , and on the top of a hill did that for us . |
| 5 | What sort of a person did that make her ? |
| 6 | And while I 'm focusing the overhead , this is the er , this is a postcard that er , a student did this course some years ago , sent me from the U S. |
| 7 | In January 1916 , six months before he met O'Keeffe , 3 Stieglitz saw examples of the charcoal drawings she had made the previous autumn and exclaimed : ‘ Why they 're genuinely fine things — You say a woman did these — She 's an unusual woman — She 's broad-minded , she 's bigger than most women , but she 's got the sensitive emotion — I 'd know she was a woman — Look at that line . ’ |
| 8 | in a hurry did that when we were at the town . |
| 9 | Whether such a statement did much to repair the damage is questionable , but the jockeys and trainers did not mince their words . |
| 10 | He stuck with his ideas , and for a year did all kinds of manual work as a casual labourer till he eventually had amassed enough money to start a grocery business with a friend . |
| 11 | Only with an effort did those who had been to all the other parties locate one another and separate themselves from the mob . |
| 12 | So great an impression did this make that Geoffrey de Rancon at once surrendered Pons . |