Example sentences of "was do [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of having a rapper and using a James Brown melody line as your hook was done a long , long time ago — by us ! |
| 2 | No , this was done a long while ago , |
| 3 | That was done a different way from the other pictures . |
| 4 | Tonight , social services said nothing was done the first time because nobody believed the complaints . |
| 5 | Same as labour was done the other day . |
| 6 | Dalziel did n't mind being invested in as long as it was done the right way . |
| 7 | When it was done the whole house had acquired a new pleasantness and comfort . |
| 8 | When it was done the old man remarked that his dog was missing from it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | My first reaction was that she was to do no such thing . |
| 11 | Probably the priestesses systematically brought the peak sanctuaries and other rural shrines under their control , just as Solomon was to do a thousand years afterwards , building an urban temple and then extending his power over the high places . |
| 12 | I thought his job was to do a powerful production job , not rewrite songs . ’ |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | He himself would put the fear of God into the professors of Königsberg and Breslau ; I was to do the same thing in Danzig . |
| 15 | The shoes had been painted with bold unmixed colours and the best way of translating the sense of that to the painting was to do the same . |
| 16 | Not only was the Spirit to universalise the person of Jesus to future believers , he was to do the same to the unbelieving world . |
| 17 | Sources at the investment bank said it was doing no such thing , although the shares neverthe less ended the session 6 ahead at 227p . |
| 18 | ‘ I was doing no such thing ! ’ she lied hotly . |
| 19 | ‘ I was doing no such thing , ’ she protested . |
| 20 | The King could reasonably take the view that he was doing no more than exercising the right to encourage , one of Bagehot 's famous trinity of rights , and that he was encouraging his Prime Minister in achieving his aims , rather than pressing MacDonald to adopt a course which was unwelcome to him . |
| 21 | In visiting a Catholic school , O'Neill might have thought he was doing no more than acknowledging that Catholics formed a sizeable part of the population of Northern Ireland and that Catholic schools were largely supported from public funds which his government administered . |
| 22 | was doing no more than leaving open the question which this court has now to decide . |
| 23 | … ’ Reading this part of the judgment as a whole , however , it is clear that the district judge was doing no more than taking note of the fact that whereas the proceedings before him were ready for trial the future of the B.M.F.L. prosecution was beset with uncertainty . |
| 24 | One could perhaps likewise argue that the joining of the office of muderris of Suleyman 's medrese in Damascus with the muftilik in this case the muftilik certainly predated the medrese was an attempt to strengthen the position of the Hanafi mufti , or , alternatively , an attempt to " Ottomanize " the muftilik , since with the foundation of the medrese the joint post passed at least temporarily from the hands of local scholars into those of Ottoman scholars ; but it may equally well be that Suleyman was doing no more than following established custom in assigning the muderrislik to the mufti . |
| 25 | And sometimes she would announce that she was doing no more in the house . |
| 26 | From the off he had me convinced that by helping him I was doing no more than carving out a new life for myself as a better citizen , a better human being . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He may have been looking a bit weary , but he was doing a splendid linking job and Whitton found it hard fill the gap . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |