Example sentences of "did on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Head up the winding river Cleddau , as we did on a previous visit , and you 're soon in total country , the ‘ Little England beyond Wales ’ , a sweet part of the world . |
| 2 | An even more important feature was that many Europeans came not to administer but to settle permanently , which they did on a large scale in Kenya and Zimbabwe , smaller numbers also being found in Zambia and Tanzania . |
| 3 | This trade was hardly predictable , relying as it did on the uncertain movements of the pelagic fish shoals , but it always attracted large fleets of foreign vessels , mainly those of the Eastern Block states . |
| 4 | The pupils were too depressed to bother sneaking into each other 's rooms for a chat as they usually did on the first night back at school . |
| 5 | I can remember what I did on the first day of my holiday last year |
| 6 | But if you do use a far-fetched or archaic word like valetudinarian , for example , as Jane Austen did on the first page of Emma , be sure you know why you are using it . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's very important for me to have the same people around me as I did on the first album … it 's a community thing , it means I can keep the same vibe as I had before , ’ he says . |
| 8 | You 'd have to do what we did on the other page . |
| 9 | And it may be that the Gardener Centre has a broader community function than previously realized , in that it might be a marvellous place for families and kids and mums and dads , as they did on the recent Gardener Open Day , to come up and spend some time in casual appreciation of the arts instead of what , traditionally , a university campus is supposed to do , which is a serious and intensive look at experimental and avant garde work . |
| 10 | Accident reports from the first decade indicate that some did on the Great Northern Coalfield , but hardly any did so by 1780 . |
| 11 | I , I think I ca I , once upon a time I did on the fixed seating for , for I think you could get about a hundred and twenty round |
| 12 | He did on the 9th green in the last round . |
| 13 | Which is just what he did on the actual day . |
| 14 | Orrell 's basic requirement is to go on winning for three more games because if they do not , either Northampton or Bath , each with a match to play after today , will nip in for the prize , just as Wasps did on the final day of the 1990 league season . |
| 15 | The New York Herald dispatched the journalist Henry Morton Stanley to find him , which he did on the famous encounter of 10 November 1871 at Ujiji , near Lake Tanganyika . |
| 16 | Quite probably you will have discovered that you put much more emphasis than we did on the immediate problem of trying to discover whether it was Chrissie or Fred who was telling the truth . |
| 17 | If the ruse did n't work the first time , it invariably did on the second occasion . |
| 18 | Many of these principles are illustrated by the work my class did on the Fibonacci sequence . |
| 19 | There is less time to think as hazards loom quicker than they did on the old boats , and accurate navigation becomes ever more critical . |
| 20 | People will spend more on cooking oil during the lifetime of the machine that they did on the initial capital cost of the machine . |
| 21 | Further , the appellant complains that by ruling in the way that he did on the main issue , the assistant recorder effectively left before the jury evidence prejudicial to the appellant which was relevant to counts 1 and 6 only : had he ruled in favour of the appellant on the motion to quash then he would have had to consider the matter and ( by inference ) would have exercised his discretion to discharge the jury and order a new trial on the remaining counts . |
| 22 | Well , ladies and gentlemen , I think you 'll agree that some of John Maynard-Smith 's early engineering training showed through , as it were , in reverse order , if that 's not too heretical a statement to make in this context , in the gentle good natured demolition job that he did on the main current critical attacks on Darwin 's mechanism , and particularly on the rhythms of change that Darwin adumbrated within his own time scale . |
| 23 | How early Pound came by this perception is not clear , but certainly he had no illusions from the first that his Cantos , building as they did on the rhythmical and thematic procedures of Homage to Sextus Propertius , would be found readily acceptable . |
| 24 | But that 's provided for you and it is erm it you know certainly the assignments I did on the medical practice they were it was very valuable . |
| 25 | over subscribed courses as well , I mean when I went on the language and , and the national curriculum and that other thing that I did on the national curriculum , masses of people there . |
| 26 | By way of final illustration , we can apply Nozick 's refutation to Descartes ' sceptical argument about dreaming , and hence perhaps do better than Descartes did on the last page of the Meditations . |
| 27 | Animate or inanimate , indifferent or not , there was something luminous and terrible about these clouds , raining as they did on the just and the unjust alike . |