Example sentences of "they do [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So what did they do at these meetings ? ’ |
| 2 | Wonder what do they do with old gravestones when they 've er |
| 3 | What could they do with more weapons that had n't already been done ? |
| 4 | ‘ Well , they do keep her there till all hours , ’ And what did they do between twelve and two p.m. ? |
| 5 | What had they done to this woman ? |
| 6 | ‘ But what are they doing up this high ? ’ |
| 7 | What sort of things were they doing to other people ? |
| 8 | What are they doing about this tax rebate then ? |
| 9 | What were they doing in this quiet spot at this time ? |
| 10 | And what sort of things did the education department as it was then , what sort of things were they doing in those days ? |
| 11 | What they did to that girl proves that . |
| 12 | What they did to that boy was savage … . ’ |
| 13 | Such gestures appealed to many Romanians , as they did to Western observers anxious to see Ceauşescu as a ‘ patriot ’ and reformer . |
| 14 | He says being a little forgiving I could praps forgive them a little for us on the 1952 test , the first , but I ca n't forgive them for what they did to these other lads on the later tests , they must have known something from Nagasaki , Hiroshima and Bikini atoll tests . |
| 15 | Sometimes she saw the three of them as expatriates , stranded in some remote colony , obstinately adhering to old customs , a lost way of life , as they did to old forms of worship . |
| 16 | Disgusting it was , what they did to those toilets . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The only present danger , ’ Kreditor resumed , ‘ is if the press pick up on it like they did with that poor , poor lady in Queens . ’ |
| 18 | Informed of this impasse , Mr Baker instructed the civil servants to go away and sort it out , which they did with admirable diplomacy . |
| 19 | Once I did this without looking where I was going and went straight into the backs of nine armourers who were ambling towards the Mess for supper , and had to be disentangled from my machine , picked up and dusted off , which they did with all the gleeful enthusiasm which Thursby reserved for drawing his heavy black frontal lines on our neatly drawn charts . |
| 20 | Melissa , struggling to follow the staccato bursts of speech that punctuated their intake of food , was so fascinated by their mannerisms that more than once she lost the thread of what they were saying and had to beg them to speak more slowly , which they did with great good humour and shrieks of tinny laughter . |
| 21 | The Romans left fewer substantial marks on what they called Caledonia than they did on southern Britain , largely because so many of their attempts to establish regional centres collapsed when they were recalled to deal with unrest in southern Britain , or even back to Continental Europe and to Rome itself . |
| 22 | If they did on this occasion Owen would be ready . |
| 23 | As outpatient clinics developed in local general hospitals , GPs started to refer patients to consultants in exactly the same way as they did for other medical specialties . |
| 24 | They did for last year . |
| 25 | The group did not have another discussion about wages for housework as such , although they did for some months follow Ruth 's prepared reading list — an introductory series of Marxist texts , and the issue of wages for housework emerged again through that , in a theoretical discussion . |
| 26 | doing , or did doing , they did for some purpose did n't they ? |
| 27 | This was discussed with the Jones who resolutely maintained that now that ‘ the problem ’ was solved they were going back to normal and apart from the period of intervention they had not changed what they did at all . |
| 28 | in the erm living room , or dining lounge , what other light fittings did people buy apart from that , if they did at all ? |
| 29 | Ca n't think what people see in them , ’ he added darkly , referring to the fact that most of the Zoo visitors who came by the Cages spent more time looking at the vultures than they did at African eagles like him . |
| 30 | She could be pretty , she decided , if her hair were not so tightly scraped back from her face and if her eyes shone with eagerness , as they did at this moment . |