Example sentences of "did in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | did in a certain street called … |
| 2 | ‘ did in a certain street called … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ did in a certain street called … |
| 4 | This he did in a terse report published in 1974 . |
| 5 | A gentleman of the faculty in the neighbourhood , hearing of the circumstance , and finding it so well authenticated , immediately made him an offer of ten guineas for the dog , which the grateful farmer refused , exultingly adding that so long as he had a bone in his meat , or a crust to his bread , he would divide it with the faithful friend who had preserved his life : arid this he did in a perfect conviction that the warmth of the dog , in covering the most vital part , had continued the circulation arid prevented a total stagnation of the blood by the frigidity of the elements . " |
| 6 | I think there is only one jumper , world record holder Javier Satomayor , who would be capable of doing what Steve did in a first outing . ’ |
| 7 | If they did so — as Antoine Pinay did in a famous " scene " in November 1959 — they were rebuffed . |
| 8 | As for Eliot himself , he seemed to make himself absolutely at home , as he usually did in a small gathering , and he swung his leg over the arm of the comfortable chair , where it reposed throughout the visit . |
| 9 | Ben and Elizabeth found themselves doing what many others did in a similar predicament — rather than wait for banns to be read , they married by licence . |
| 10 | Otherwise , you may offer advice based on what you did in a similar situation , reliving your own unhappiness . |
| 11 | And talk they did in a 23 minute live broadcast telephone interview from LA to Scotland . |
| 12 | The idea was that a system did n't have just a single history in space-time , as one would normally assume it did in a classical nonquantum theory . |
| 13 | It was much harder to show a side of your nature and your soul as an actor as he did in The Private Ear and the Public Eye . ’ |
| 14 | Henry was almost certainly the victim of an ayah who , in the interests of peace and quiet , fed the child opium ; in any case , the mother had no cause to blame herself , as she did in the following verses : |
| 15 | In Moscow , Mr Yeltsin won a higher percentage of the votes cast than he did in the 1991 presidential election . |
| 16 | The company , which has been beset by overwhelming demand for its budget lines , says that it expects to balance supply with demand for most of its products during the current quarter — although it shipped more than twice the number of machines in fourth quarter 1992 as it did in the 1991 period , the backlog has continued into the current quarter . |
| 17 | Seagram 's victory in the 1991 Grand National was an extraordinary coincidence occurring as it did in the final year of the company 's sponsorship of the race . |
| 18 | Equally important are economies of scope : big firms can use the materials and processes employed to make one product in the manufacture of related goods , as Japan 's consumer-electronics companies did in the 1970s , using the same factories that had previously churned out cheap transistor radios to manufacture televisions and videos . |
| 19 | Though urged by the school to apply for a place at Oxbridge , she chose instead to go to Sussex University , as bright young people often did in the 1970s , because the new universities were considered exciting and innovatory places to study at . |
| 20 | However , with Britain deep in recession and more than three million unemployed , some people doubt if the firemen can carry the weight of public sympathy as they did in the 1970s . |
| 21 | Much of the major investment in this country 's telecommunications infrastructure in recent years has been from BT , which has made a much bigger contribution to the Exchequer than it did in the 1970s , as it is more efficient , more productive , sells more services , makes more money and pays more tax . |
| 22 | Indeed , Opposition Members did nothing to clear up the uncertainties about the huge expenditure on which they would have to embark to renationalise these industries before messing them up again as they did in the 1970s when they were under national control . |
| 23 | It is not to be expected , however , that the killing of the fatted calf for the prodigal son will evoke any more enthusiasm in his virtuous brother than it did in the scriptural parable . |
| 24 | A beautiful odalisque by Matisse , such as Torso with a Jug , typical of the work he did in the 1920s and 1930s , will bring £35,000 or more . |
| 25 | In total , mergers did not occur on quite the same scale as they did in the 1920s — which was equivalent to something like one-third of all firms in manufacturing going out of existence — but they caused the loss of an equivalent of a quarter of all firms . |
| 26 | ENGLAND suffered the same fate in the second Test with Pakistan in Lahore as they did in the first , losing heavily . |
| 27 | He did not benefit much , scoring 23 before he snicked Snell 's out-swinger , as he did in the first innings , to be caught by the keeper . |
| 28 | They should never have shifted their line-out men around the way that they did in the first 40 minutes . |
| 29 | ‘ My coach , Malcolm Arnold , told me that you do n't win gold medals performing like I did in the first round . |
| 30 | Its main power over the economy lies in its control of the central bank , but Mr Yeltsin has made the bank promise that it will issue only a quarter as much credit in the second three months of the year as it did in the first . |