Example sentences of "did [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing is known about his activities until he was authorized , by Elizabeth I 's signet of 8 July 1563 , to prospect for minerals in England , which he did during that summer . |
| 2 | Mm was that all they actually did during those war years there just repairing the aircraft |
| 3 | Oakenfold 's version of ‘ Cloud 8 ’ was the only well executed or timely attempt ( coming as it did during last summer 's mellow months ) , and is included on the four track limited edition giveaway , ‘ The Baby Album ’ . |
| 4 | We know what CAMRA did for real ale and there is even a chance — is n't there ? — that Greenpeace will save us from ourselves . |
| 5 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 6 | What he did for that man on the cross , he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us . |
| 7 | But , as a concept determining the political and educational programme , it remained rather vague , standing as it did for all manner of virtues before a spectrum of interests . |
| 8 | Two years after the photograph had been taken Nasser came to power in a nationalist revolution which signalled the end for the European community in Alexandria , as it did for European domination of Egyptian affairs . |
| 9 | At that very second that we call upon the Lord , just as this dying thief called on him , the Lord will hear us and make his answer instantly the same as he did for this man . |
| 10 | Seldom had Sergeant Camb felt so sorry for anyone as he did for this woman who lay against the piled pillows . |
| 11 | They did for last year . |
| 12 | doing , or did doing , they did for some purpose did n't they ? |
| 13 | The staff member who received the flowers on this occasion did what she did through pure interest and gut instinct . |
| 14 | ‘ When we did out hard session , that 's when I think love on a high level happened . |
| 15 | Fine lime trees formed a natural avenue for the approach ; copper beeches and great elms gave shelter from the wind in the east ; should the river flood , as he 'd observed it did after heavy rain , the house was safe upon its hill . |
| 16 | But I would be surprised if I did after this year , although , at this stage , I am still playing well enough and I am enjoying it enough so that if I want to play another tournament , I can . ’ |
| 17 | But I would be surprised if I did after this year , although , at this stage , I am still playing well enough and I am enjoying it enough so that if I want to play another tournament , I can . ’ |
| 18 | If she decides to forgive and forget , as she did after previous takeover attempts , she might not be able to rein in the military . |
| 19 | When the volume of work increased , as it did throughout central government , the wind of change hit the Lord Chancellor 's Office with particular force because it started from such a tiny base . |
| 20 | There is a closing sequence now the reason that you were able to close in the manner that you did with that bloke is a natural ability , but if I 've said to you to teach somebody else it you would say I can not do it , but I ca n't teach somebody else , because you 're not actually aware of the sequence that you 're working , can you see what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 21 | ‘ You know , ’ she said , ‘ I 've been thinking very hard about what you did with that glass . |
| 22 | Informed of this impasse , Mr Baker instructed the civil servants to go away and sort it out , which they did with admirable diplomacy . |
| 23 | Each evening , the child was given a piece of chalk and shown how to cross the days off which he did with great satisfaction . |
| 24 | I am sure he would have considered that both technical accomplishment and , though not perhaps in the modern sense , introspection , were valuable for the poet , but the labour and intense study which you 'll have noticed he referred to in that passage I 've read , consisted of course of learning large numbers of languages , which he clearly did with great fluency , and reading inordinately the whole of human literature . |
| 25 | It 's about er ten years ago nearly that I er stopped being a teacher and when I was a teacher er up having to do assemblies er it was always something that I did with great reluctance and er was er pleased if I could get other people to do it er it seems rather odd then er that I 've actually said yes coming to do er an assembly here today and it 's perhaps a sign of mental instability on my part . |
| 26 | This he did with such success that within the next few years his name became a byword throughout Spain . |
| 27 | The victory of supporters of Rafsanjani 's " moderate " administration in the October elections for the Assembly of Experts [ see above ] , coinciding as it did with higher oil revenues and regional political developments as a result of the Gulf crisis , worked to strengthen the administration and effectively silence the Islamic regime 's " radical " wing suspicious of internal reforms and of economic and political opening to the West . |
| 28 | It cost very little , after all , to demand to be heard , to involve themselves in European negotiations , as all of them did , to capitalize — as James V did with supreme ability — on the problems of popes and European kings . |
| 29 | Whenever the conference adjourned , I noticed , as no doubt his lordship did with some concern , that Mr Lewis would quickly take M. Dupont away to some corner or other where they could confer quietly . |
| 30 | Granny decided to dismount which she did with some difficulty on account of.having to keep her frock pulled down to hide her torn drawers . |