Example sentences of "[pron] did [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did Hope that Lord Nelson who was staying at Raby might come down to partake of the fayre which had been set out on a Royal Oak table decorated with a huge Wheatsheaf , Blue Bells and a small Green Tree that looked very much like Three Tuns . |
| 2 | ‘ When I came out of the Air Force I did articles and pieces for various magazines as well as reviews for newspapers , including the Yorkshire Gazette and Herald and the Northern Echo . |
| 3 | I did gardening . |
| 4 | As I did Mrs Thatcher . |
| 5 | ‘ I did Bob Roberts for about one twentieth . |
| 6 | I did psychotherapy for years … ‘ |
| 7 | ‘ My agent was aghast when I did Freejack . |
| 8 | When I did Nurse Ratchett in One Flew Over The Cuckoo 's Nest up in Manchester I read the novel and found a speech in the book that was really wonderful on the character and I asked the director if I could read it for him . |
| 9 | Yes I did sir , yes . |
| 10 | It 'd be a right nightmare if I did drugs as well . |
| 11 | As a result , when I did Friends or War I had to make sure there was a distance between them , because they are about completely different subjects . |
| 12 | This route must be taken very seriously er rights of way , planning investigation for the environment which as I did problems the other sources in terms of right of way , in terms of unresourcing rest of the backlog giving instructions in terms of . |
| 13 | I did G C S E's in the first year . |
| 14 | I did G C E thank you very much ! |
| 15 | ‘ Oh yes I did lady . |
| 16 | She , she was off , off sick and er so for the last six months I did sister 's duties which was very useful because er it , it , it gave me that little bit of independence , working on my own whereas before you 'd always got either the staff nurse or the sister to fall back on . |
| 17 | I did trout . |
| 18 | ‘ I did an area in Washington , as far as drugs , called the Graveyard and then for the prostitution I did New York and Washington DC . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I set out to wilfully parody other music papers like Melody Maker who were so pompous ( plus ça change ! ) so I did things like call our letters section Gasbag after MM 's rather earnest ‘ Mailbag ’ . |
| 20 | " I used to be active in the church but not now , there used to be hell on if I did things in the church . |
| 21 | I did things like that . |
| 22 | I did water-colours mostly but I 'd just started painting in oils and felt I had quite a talent for it , but they were n't very encouraging … |
| 23 | Will was usually writing , and I did bits of business for him when I could . |
| 24 | but I put some upstairs , good job , but I did loads did n't I all little cuttings , they were coming on a bit were n't they ? |
| 25 | ‘ I did AC Milan/Lazio on Channel 4 . |
| 26 | Actually I did operations between the village hall and the Crosskeys and Mr Martin is on the pub for the last sixteen years you see . |
| 27 | I did games and my knee hurt ! |
| 28 | I did decorating last couple of weeks ago when I was off . |
| 29 | Last time I did Oxford-York return by train it was 40+ quid . |
| 30 | I went east , and I was lucky , for I had n't gone one hundred yards when I did trip over the painter . |