Example sentences of "did [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most of the men , it was the only day of the year when they were able to visit a town , spending their days as they did working on the isolated farms of the moors and dales . |
| 2 | I did that for the nose |
| 3 | they did that for the school children |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Marie , ‘ Simon always said it was you did that to the kiosk . |
| 5 | Clatting the neeps and in Aberdeen they called them yowing And y We had your clatt as the yow they called it the hoe , the yow They cleared the Did that to the drill . |
| 6 | George said she only did that on the first and last nights of the season , unless there was a particularly successful production , like the time O'Hara had brought the house down in Richard II . |
| 7 | I did that on the basis that it is very difficult to scrutinise the Bill 's Scottish aspects , complicated and far-reaching as they are , as they impact on a very distinct and separate local government tradition and system within the framework of United Kingdom legislation . |
| 8 | I mean we did that on the Wednesday , and he said that 's all I need now . |
| 9 | Yeah I did that on the car the other day . |
| 10 | Erm and they did that with the women . |
| 11 | It was thing with two prongs and you tap it in like that and it lifted the neeps , then you did that with the yeuk |
| 12 | They did that with the neeps so that when the man came along with a cart they could throw them , you see . |
| 13 | we did that with the with the chemist . |
| 14 | did that with the African stuff , that happened . |
| 15 | He did that at the Hope ( Close : He improved three times , but would have had to better a 63 to do it every round — 76-68-67-63-69 ) . |
| 16 | Oh yes , did that at the beginning for for a long time . |
| 17 | If you did that in the Boat Race you would get left behind . |
| 18 | Eric Brown then went and did that in the third round , but at that stage I thought it was going to be between Peter , Christy and Dave . |
| 19 | Too many people did that in the last recession and ended up with fancy new furniture in the living room , photos of an expensive holiday abroad , a few remains of once fashionable clothes and masses of debts . |
| 20 | And we did that in the three areas , so we used the sum of three vascular counts in the analysis . |
| 21 | We did that in the with the erm , urgent issues task force new standard on good will . |
| 22 | he did n't want anybody to know , but I think in he did that in the kinder fashion . |
| 23 | That was a , we did that in the conference room downstairs . |
| 24 | That was an over-simplification and did neither of the shows full justice . |
| 25 | ( It is said that when playing his ‘ interview ’ round of golf he did each of the holes from 13–18 inclusive in three ) . |
| 26 | It did little for the image of a man who has been part of the backbone of the team for so long , and was playing in his eighty-seventh Test . |
| 27 | This remarkable volte face did little for the president 's public reputation , was the cause of much scathing comment in the media and , not surprisingly , a poll revealed that 86 per cent of Americans , ‘ had no confidence in the ability of the President to manage the economy ’ . |
| 28 | On a hot day the engine-out rate of climb did little for the blood pressure . |
| 29 | His ministry did little for the more difficult problem of the ‘ residuum ’ . |
| 30 | This may have prevented some children of artisans falling into poverty as a result of the decline of skilled occupations , but it did little for the lowest stratum who were always the most vulnerable to severe poverty . |