Example sentences of "did over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were things that we had no more control over yet than the grass did over the developer who chose to plough it all under and build a factory on top . |
| 2 | As a rule we had do tell everybody what we did over the weekend which was called our ‘ news ’ and we usually did this first thing on a Monday . |
| 3 | More importantly , if you were doing the exercise Mr did over the weekend , how would you score the sector ? |
| 4 | Mr Salmond undoubtedly has a point in arguing , as he did over the weekend , that any demonstrable gain which may ultimately emerge from the deal with Mr Lang was achieved without serious risk of saving the Government from a Commons defeat . |
| 5 | I think that Mr has lost his bet because we are a party who is not obsessed by ideology we are not prepared to act indefinitely like bulls in a china shop when the owners of the shop have an infinite supply of china We want to move forward and we want to move forward in the real world and the idea that a strong government and sticking to what you want through thick and thin when clearly you 're not going to get the result you want , as indeed the government did over the poll tax , in the end you have to recognise the reality the Labour group , as much as anything else , are part of that reality . |
| 6 | The rise in the share of transfers ( pensions , dole , etc. ) also probably took the form ( as it did over the period as a whole ; see chapter 9 ) of an extension of coverage of schemes rather than of a growth in real value in excess of productivity . |