Example sentences of "did [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt . |
| 2 | An old potter regretted that machinery did not transform his trade as early as it did that of cotton . |
| 3 | Marxism grotesquely underestimated the power of nationalism , as it did that of religion . |
| 4 | I did that for A-level . |
| 5 | So it 's in year ten , Sandra does it er does it you did that for safety in the home ? |
| 6 | ‘ Yow did that on purpose yer cheeky little sod ! ’ she cried out in surprise . |
| 7 | But I did that on marathon training . |
| 8 | I certainly did that with Boy George . |
| 9 | now he did that with ease , you know . |
| 10 | I did that at home two weeks ago . |
| 11 | They did that at school . |
| 12 | yeah I did that at school |
| 13 | Yeah I did that at school we had to stay in most break times as a child cos I could n't remember , and I , I know that my mum bought me a books so I used to sit for days and days , then my mum going over and then my nan going over and I could n't remember if I wanted |
| 14 | I never did that in fact … |
| 15 | He duly won the Washington International , but the race did little for harmony in transatlantic racing relations , for Lester Piggott 's handling of the colt provoked a bemused American press into heaping criticism on his apparently indifferent head . |
| 16 | It is no wonder that yesterday 's debate did little for democracy and nothing to help the country understand Maastricht . |
| 17 | Thomas last played in the full England side 13 months ago when he won his first cap in Saudi Arabia and did little of consequence . |
| 18 | Dropped for the Adelaide Test , he returned for the final contest , at Melbourne , where 90,800 attended on the second day , and though he did little of note , he was with Mackay at the end as Australia scraped in by two wickets . |
| 19 | The balls and parties given by the Franklins did little to buoy up her spirits , being , as she described herself , ‘ such a shy , reserved being ’ , and she longed for the quiet , regular family life of home . |
| 20 | Black leaders showed a new and sharper determination in calling for equality ; they were no doubt encouraged by Eleanor Roosevelt 's support for their cause , though the New Deal did little in practice for them . |
| 21 | Several of its most famous names decamped to London , as did half of Factory . |
| 22 | Er ah , I did some at home but we have n't done any booklet work this week . |
| 23 | They were rejected in Rochdale , and even in Nottingham , where cases of sexual abuse were upheld , and nine parents were found to have been involved in elaborate and organised abuse , there was no evidence that they did this as part of any satanic rituals or worship . |
| 24 | Gow also did much to interest undergraduates in art , a subject by no means popular among the Cambridge dons of his generation . |
| 25 | Interest groups not only prompted state intervention , but that intervention in disturbing the established equilibrium did much to draw-out still more activity as interests fought to defend their patch in the face of other interests jockeying for advantage . |
| 26 | One of Petiver 's friends was James Sherard ( 1666–1738 ) , brother of the diplomat , William , who did much for botany at Oxford . |
| 27 | well what we do is that we we all know each-other 's hand- writing so we borrow each-other 's pens and like last night I did all of maths prep and he , we 'll both remember that , and then one night when I 'm like under a lot of pressure to do some prep , he 'll like return the favour |
| 28 | Bigger and better equipped practices and those with a diabetic miniclinic had patients with significantly better glycaemic control , as did those with access to dietetic advice . |
| 29 | The slopes of the regression lines , as well as the correlation coefficients of acarbose and placebo did not differ significantly ( ) , nor did those of miglitol and placebo ( ) . |
| 30 | She can not mother her child and she can not mother her mother ; everything she did inclined towards death . |