Example sentences of "did [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm afraid Brian Deane was a bit of a liability , he really did nothing all game in the opposition box , apart from straying offside to deny Wetherall a good goal . |
| 2 | Thus , in the case of a patient who did nothing more t n refuse further treatment , there could be no liability on the part of the doctor for aiding and abetting under section 2 . |
| 3 | when I had the time , did them all tension and set , you know , but erm , as you say now , they probably cost you about fifty pound a go every time they go away |
| 4 | In Cuba the Communists ' early association with Batista did them great disservice when his second regime ( 1952–8 ) became increasingly corrupt and unpopular . |
| 5 | And when they were espoused the King did them great honour , and gave them many noble gifts , and added to Rodrigo 's lands more than he had till then possessed : and he loved him greatly in his heart , because he saw that he was obedient to his commands , and for all that he had heard him say . |
| 6 | What I 've done is just taken over from Catherine last year on her topics which er , seem to quite successful and I certainly know that Marian did them last year and found them good . |
| 7 | My son did them last night . |
| 8 | Not that it did them any good . |
| 9 | With remarks like ‘ Ah well , that never did me any harm ; I have gone through worse ’ , he would brush aside his colleagues ' explorations as irrelevant , yet hint at having himself suffered as a child . |
| 10 | While I 'm standing up to my thighs in water trying to kill a lot of fish that never did me any harm , somebody in this town takes it into his head to rub out Jack Mahoney . ’ |
| 11 | He never did me any harm . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The track was drying out quite quickly when I did my best lap particularly on the climb up towards Casino Square where most of the cars are on full throttle for most of the time . |
| 13 | ‘ I do , ’ I said , ‘ in my own ward and when I can special a patient right through , as I did my classic pneumonia girl in Hope a few weeks ago . |
| 14 | As a child I was taken to the dread Hector McDarroch in Glasgow and he did my dental work right up to my teens Friends of my youth tell me that he inspired a similar lasting fear in them , too , and in fact there must be a whole generation of Glaswegians who feel the same . |
| 15 | ‘ I did my medial ligaments against Swindon last Thursday and I 'm going to be out for two or three weeks at the very least . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , what did my dear Constable Fenwick say ? ’ |
| 17 | My natural reserve made me recoil at this blatant approach , as did my total commitment and loyalty to Leslie . |
| 18 | I did my usual bird impression — ‘ A Vulture ’ — best executed in Valentino or Yves St Laurent , with knees tucked under armpits , toes clawed over the edge of a sturdy table and neck and mouth stretched to capacity until the cords and sinews stand out . |
| 19 | I did my usual tap dancing on the table , but actually had quite a good time . |
| 20 | The gentlemen of the orchestra chorused their usual soft whistles of approval and I did my usual twirl , deep curtsey and , ‘ Good evening , gentlemen . ’ |
| 21 | With the depressed economy and appalling trade figures ( improved a little , one hopes , by a healthy Christmas ) , I was expecting doom and gloom as I did my recent rounds of the publishing houses . |
| 22 | That did my poor legs a world of good , of course . |
| 23 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 24 | Then I did my first modelling job and got $400 for two hours ' work . |
| 25 | Those living in the more remote area like Albany , where I did my first workshop , are truly isolated . |
| 26 | Curbishley , who will defend her Schools title at Hull next month , said : ‘ I did my first training over hurdles on Thursday and my knee was a bit swollen afterwards . |
| 27 | I DID my National Service with a Guards regiment on the East German border in 1948 — but there was still some fraternisation with the Russians , usually in the bar at some remote border village . |
| 28 | Did my copious scribbles help or hinder — and you 'll see I now have my ‘ Apple ’ back after a saga which made Monty Python , Esther Rantzen and Bernard Levin 's saga about his mother and the North Thames gas board look like child 's play . |
| 29 | He took quite a shine to you , did my old man . |
| 30 | It was only after moving to Llanberis that I did my next winter route in Wales — a quick solo of Sinister Gully . |