Example sentences of "did the [adj] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You did the other things for me . ’ |
| 2 | If only you were aware of we did the other things |
| 3 | But staying out at night cost money if you did the right things : coffee bars and a movie or a disco , but if you rode round in borrowed cars it was an okay way of killing time . |
| 4 | I do try to give the rescue teams some feedback on the casualties , so that they know whether or not they did the right things . |
| 5 | As a small boy , he did the usual things that boys do . |
| 6 | That was the time when you did the fancy things on the top , aye . |
| 7 | Thérèse and Léonie did the unbreakable things , like the legs of chairs , the tops of tables , the strip of tiled floor showing between the carpet and the wall . |
| 8 | She cooked , she cleaned , she shopped , she walked Pilade , she saw to her lodgers — day after day she did the same things at the same time , and instead of being driven half mad with boredom , insane with frustration , she found herself strangely at peace . |
| 9 | ‘ Well they were townies you know , ’ she finally says , ‘ and it looked to me that when townies hung out together they all dressed the same , did the same things , went to the same places and I was really different . |
| 10 | What with those tutors , hers is English English , her friends ’ English ; she did the same things and made the same jokes and had the qualities they admired — the post-Edwardians , the young new Georgians of her set , her sets — dash , courage , brilliance , intellectual freedom . |
| 11 | I did the same things when we did |