Example sentences of "did at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 2 | I did at one stage : I could see no point in living and I believed death would be an easier option . |
| 3 | The Hong Kong government fears the market may be thinking the same way : in late April it announced legislation to formalise the power of local banks to pay negative interest rates on Hong Kong dollar deposits ( just as Swiss banks did at one time when the Swiss wanted to discourage an inflow of foreign money into the Swiss franc ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Although I do not speak English as well as I should , I did at one time know England well . |
| 5 | No one could work as many as 35 hours per week since Age Concern was unable to provide full-time contracts ; however four support workers in Newham and three in Ipswich did at one time work 20 hours or more per week ( see Table 3.3 ) . |
| 6 | The only other thing to do is , is do what er er , we did at one time and just get a bright beer and open it up and er , and then pull it . |
| 7 | I did at one time I know I never I do n't I never touch a thing there and I thought and he would you mind opening your carrier and I 've got sanitary towels in there |
| 8 | I want to get down and boogie , do that head bashing like we did at that gig . |
| 9 | I never wanted my Mum so much in my life as I did at that moment . |
| 10 | Mind you , my elder daughter takes a lot more responsibility for herself than I did at that age . ’ |
| 11 | What we did at that point , was to get together a task force of people to examine the idea and where it was going : the people doing the work and the people who were likely to understand the most likely market — put them together in one room to reason their way through to the fact that we really ought to drop the project . |
| 12 | Check your records to see what you did at that time . |
| 13 | They were good value , because they were in a style that he could wear anywhere and they were strong enough for all his walking and kept his feet from being bruised on the city pavements , for when you walk as much and as far as Boy did at that time you can hurt your feet badly . |
| 14 | The invasion scare passed and the Troop went north to do independent training , as all Troops did at that time . |
| 15 | I 've got a calendar from the day I start shooting , and I start crossing off the days the way I did at high school , waiting for summer vacation to begin . ’ |
| 16 | If they became angry at things said to them by professionals , as a majority of them did at some point , the horrifying causes of their anger were true , and were not projections of their own distress on to the professional concerned . |
| 17 | One of the most attractive designs that he did at this time was for Kay Dick 's novel , An Affair of Love ( 1953 ) . |
| 18 | She had eaten much more than she usually did at this time of day . |
| 19 | She could be pretty , she decided , if her hair were not so tightly scraped back from her face and if her eyes shone with eagerness , as they did at this moment . |
| 20 | Had the house actually left the ground , he knew that he could n't have felt more strange than he did at this moment , or more afraid : there was someone here . |
| 21 | Never in her life had she felt less like eating than she did at this moment . |
| 22 | Except that even with costume and make-up the star had looked less like a pirate than Nathan Bryce did at this moment . |