Example sentences of "it did the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only in the case of the General Strike and the events which surrounded it did the participation of the Prime Minister match his degree of ultimate responsibility . |
| 2 | Religion was important here , inculcating as it did the traditions of service and good works . |
| 3 | But unlike Orwell , my journey did n't make me repudiate my own class — it did the opposite , it recuperated my class belonging . |
| 4 | But it did the opposite . |
| 5 | It did the trick . |
| 6 | And apparently they believed it , as it did the trick . |
| 7 | ‘ I got Nell to tell his father that if Sheridan came to breakfast we would n't be putting on our scene , and it did the trick . |
| 8 | It did the trick , like . |
| 9 | So we got Rose out here and did as he said and by gaw it did the trick . |
| 10 | But it did the trick . |
| 11 | His voice was low , for her alone , but it did the trick . |
| 12 | It did the trick . |
| 13 | It did the trick . |
| 14 | The lily grew so fast that each day it filled twice the amount of space that it did the day before . |
| 15 | It did the work of a person in a factory occupation such as loading sacks onto a pallet , but then that person cost only an average of £1300 per annum to employ . |
| 16 | A big backdrop to the stage with light concentrated on it did the rest . |
| 17 | However , the Korean War stimulated the German economy , as it did the rest of Western Europe , and there was much unrealised potential after the years of occupation . |
| 18 | With film , similarly , TV at first was starved , then it did the deals bringing more feature films more quickly to the screen . |
| 19 | Modern archaeology shows that prehistoric societies were complex , though even without this it should have been obvious that only an essentially stable and intelligent society would have constructed a structure such as the Neolithic henge at Avebury and its complex could not have been constructed over such a span of time ; involving as it did the excavation of a quarter of a million tonnes of chalk and the transportation and erection of hundreds of stones weighing up to about 50 tonnes each . |
| 20 | After the opening of the Suez Canal , and especially after the construction of the railway up the Nile , Egypt became the place for those whose health forbade the damp autumns and winters of the north , combining as it did the advantages of climate , exoticism , monuments of ancient culture and ( at this stage still informal ) European domination . |
| 21 | Jessica dropped in a reference to the Playboy of the Western World , her eye on Rory , but it passed as far over him as it did the seamen . |
| 22 | The attraction of foquismo to many young , radicalised , middle-class Latin Americans is hard to overestimate , offering as it did the immediacy of a rapid solution and a legitimisation of their participation in the revolutionary process despite their non-proletarian origins . |
| 23 | One way out of this dead-end situation , denying as it did the possibility of a human relationship , was taken by Donne in his love-poems , where the woman is no longer on a pedestal but is discovered in bed with the poet . |
| 24 | If it did the yield at yesterday 's 84p , down 5p , would be 6.3 p.c. and the multiple about 30 . |
| 25 | It did the rector 's heart good to see a man among his small flock , and he hoped that others might follow his example . |
| 26 | The Fund would review the Soviet economy in the same way as it did the economies of members , would provide the Soviet Union with technical assistance on agreed projects , would invite a Soviet representative to appropriate IMF executive board and other meetings and would " give favourable consideration " to requests from union republics for the extension to them of similar undertakings . |
| 27 | No one had a drink before the food arrived , but once it did the wine flowed freely : the best lambrusco , the best fortana and finally the moscato , a sweet , white , generally fizzy wine made with selected muscatel grapes . |
| 28 | There 's an even more er perhaps er pertinent er point on this that er that did it did the congress system actually exist in any meaningful way . |
| 29 | The man had a card that did the work at the desk , saved them the queue , and it did the business at Customs too . |
| 30 | I 'm sure he would n't have liked the way we communally beheaded him but it did the job . |