Example sentences of "did in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did in the wife and the daughter as well . ’ |
| 2 | The few French privatisations that occurred before the current Socialist government came in — Compagnie Financiere de Suez being a good example - excited heavy demand from French retail investors , rather as British Gas and British Telecom did in the UK . |
| 3 | This process would continue indefinitely , with reversals taking place at intervals of as little as 100,000 years or as much as one million years , but with the overall result that the compass spent about as much time pointing in one direction as it did in the other . |
| 4 | Some Ealing posters collaged graphics with photography , as Minton did in the publicity leaflet for The Loves of Joanna Godden ( 1947 ) . |
| 5 | It is as if , out of nowhere , his voice had spoken in the room , as it once did in the lane . |
| 6 | It was a Saturday , their father was sleeping in , as were their three elder brothers , so for once they had some time to play by themselves , which they did in the yard . |
| 7 | The senate , however , consisted of more members of the nobility than of the emerging burgher class , for their economic situation was not strong enough to enable them to develop as they did in the cities of northern Italy and elsewhere in Europe . |
| 8 | I thought he felt the same about me ; perhaps he did in the beginning . |
| 9 | Just as Adam stands between the forces of good and evil , so do we stand between the heroic action and qualities of Christ and the fallen Angel of Light , and just as man did in the beginning , we too , as humans , fall prey to the tempter at each individual reading of the epic . |
| 10 | When the Cortes returned to liberated Madrid ( 5 January 1814 ) and the Desired One to Spain , the Persians , a group of conservative deputies , petitioned the king to denounce the constitution of 1812 ; this he did in the Manifesto of 4 May 1814 . |
| 11 | However , it is very possible that the investor may incorrectly forecast the market as many did in the crash of October 1987 . |
| 12 | What I did in the circumstances was go off into an Ollieish riff about je ne sais quoi , keeping Stu achortle without waking the fair Gillian . |
| 13 | From the extracts to which I have ventured to refer it is clear that equity would have been unlikely to have considered that there was any duty upon the creditors and their solicitors to do more than they in fact did in the circumstances of that case . |
| 14 | Chivers , providing dynamic leadership as Derry get ready for their most important match since last year 's Ulster decider , is adamant that the side can play much , much better than they did in the McKenna climax . |
| 15 | As she heard him come back she refrained from looking out of her window , nor did she go down to the corridor outside his room when , a little later , she heard him groaning as he always did in the grip of a nightmare . |
| 16 | People spent as much time watching films on TV each week as they did in the cinema each year , the report said . |
| 17 | Nothing his old man did in the rest of the trip came close to commanding such respect as falling asleep during that take-off . |
| 18 | Rambling is n't that what old fogeys did in the weekend ? |
| 19 | This process has been short-circuited on occasions by well-known public figures , but it is inconceivable that a person unknown as a national party figure could , within the space of two or three years , become that party 's leader as Carter did in the United States . |
| 20 | Prohibition of drugs , they say , works no better than prohibition of alcohol did in the United States . |
| 21 | What people like April Grieman did in the United States ten years ago — fifteen years ago — was also very interesting , very exciting , but I think that both of those people attracted an enormous number of followers and Brody now essentially occupies rock star status , witness the groupies at Type ninety . |
| 22 | ‘ I know now why you did what you did in the hall , ’ Murtach said . |
| 23 | He has a great vision of the game , and can play stunning rugby — just as he did in the test against New Zealand when some of his tactical options were simply excellent . |
| 24 | It had also occurred to him that if he wrote that report it would be the last thing he ever did in the Army . |
| 25 | If I had n't taken that opportunity I 'm sure I would never have done the things I later did in the refinery business . |
| 26 | Michael Heseltine , Peter Walker and Jim Prior have all pressed their reservations much more explicitly in the Cabinet Room than any minister did in the Heath years . |
| 27 | Kington comes across as a natural traveller , just as Colin Thubron did in the Silk Road programme in David Wallace 's series . |
| 28 | In the main , most hotels seem happy to let their concierges work the system to their advantage , providing their more entrepreneurial traits do not get the better of them , as they did in the case of those at the Heathrow Penta . |
| 29 | More commonly , though still infrequently , the House of Lords will reject a Government Bill as it did in the case of the Parliament Bill 1947 . |
| 30 | In addition , the fear of imprisonment may instil the fear of rape into young , smooth , neat , corporate executives — as it did in the case of certain Watergate conspirators — and lead to a dramatic and welcome improvement in their behaviour . |