Example sentences of "did a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did a combined cycle and hiking day ; rode over the hill to Wainuiomata and down to the Rimutaka Forest Park , then tramped through the bush and up a long ridge to the top of Mount McKerrow . |
| 2 | ‘ It was hard work but they did a fantastic job on me . |
| 3 | ‘ Both officers did a fantastic job . |
| 4 | We did a confidential letter to Edinburgh District a month ago telling them that . |
| 5 | The weather did a typical about-turn the next morning , bald blue sky and ferocious summer sun replacing the grey blanket of yesterday . |
| 6 | I remember we did a live version of ‘ Space Oddity ’ with acoustic guitar , bass and congas and it did n't go down so well . ’ |
| 7 | John rolled his eyes as he did a rough calculation . |
| 8 | The tavern also did a thriving trade in the sale of stolen horses , an activity that provided Harper with an excuse to travel deep into the Irish countryside . |
| 9 | He did a hanging routine on his TV show that went wrong . |
| 10 | — And then I did a daft thing . |
| 11 | It was not large but did a fairish trade . |
| 12 | Most observers agree that Mr Morton did a spectacular job in reversing the project 's fortunes . |
| 13 | And how was it to be achieved — was there agreement about it within the leadership and the wider society , and did a political agency exist that could bring it into being ? |
| 14 | Mika Hakkinen did a superb job for the under-financed Lotus team , the young Finn impressing everyone with his mature and confident approach after stepping up from Formula 3 . |
| 15 | Then she turned and walked towards the deep end , turned again and did a perfect back flip , hardly denting the surface and coming up into a smooth breaststroke only a few feet away from me . |
| 16 | The county 's director of cricket , Geoff Cook , said : ‘ Dean was very popular up here and did a perfect job for us on and off the pitch . ’ |
| 17 | It says , for instance , that it ‘ should have done what COSE did a long time ago . ’ |
| 18 | It is a drawing of a girl ( young woman ) , a nude , not like anything else of his I have seen , and I think it must be something he did a long time ago . |
| 19 | I seem to remember they put it in mono and did a limited edition in stereo which , for those days , was a fairly advanced piece of thinking . |
| 20 | We saw that in terms of history , and we recently saw it in terms of music , although he did a famous U-turn after his cage was rattled , I suspect . |
| 21 | At school one did a certain amount of chemistry , and then at university one did what was possibly a slightly different subject . |
| 22 | Waitress Janet Hartley , 31 , echoed the other women when she did a hasty rethink on Bill Kay 's sex appeal on the strength of the Clinton look . |
| 23 | I did an evening ride along some backblocks roads , all gravel , and the next day we all hired bikes and did a similar route . |
| 24 | Leinster did a similar demolition job on Llanelli and lost narrowly to the South-west Division . |
| 25 | I did a similar thing once , although from the less salubrious surroundings of Manchester , so felt an instant rapport . |
| 26 | This would require a great deal of organisation to ensure compatibility of all the units involved , but ICAO did a similar thing many years ago with ILS air and ground equipment and that has been working successfully now for over thirty-five years . |
| 27 | Erm Louise did a similar thing for me , managed to get some one-off letters run off the system . |
| 28 | He did a similar job on the plumbing . |
| 29 | Plaid Cymru , which did a similar deal , was preparing to vote with the Government . |
| 30 | Plaid Cymru , which did a similar deal , voted with the Government , acknowledging that its deal did go further . |