Example sentences of "did [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gedge 's approach to stagecraft was largely to ignore all the rules and act almost the same way as he did off stage . |
| 2 | Now erm let's come on to er the last war and er I 'd like to know what what you did as part of your war effort . |
| 3 | Yes really it 's just supporting or confirming what Mr said , which we did as part of the Southern Ryedale Local Plan , we contacted British Rail , and they were not averse to the reopening of stations on the York Scarborough line , providing they were funded by private investment . |
| 4 | The frogs did as Sergeant advised , and discovered at the far end of the garden , near the brick wall , a fine shady place among a cluster of mossy rocks . |
| 5 | The Minister may be tempted to respond , as the Secretary of State did during education questions a week ago , by dismissing such allegations of hardship . |
| 6 | In World War I the traffic increased by way of the requirements of the armed forces , as it did during World War 11 . |
| 7 | Most everybody in the house had gone to work , or whatever it was they did during daylight , and as I was only two feet away I reached over and slipped the lock , taking the phone receiver with me . |
| 8 | Instead of going to the Club as he usually did for lunch , Owen went to Zeinab 's apartment . |
| 9 | CONSIDER what J Edgar Hoover did for freedom . |
| 10 | There is no evidence to suggest that such orientation has the same religious significance as they did for Teotihuacan . |
| 11 | Margaret was in the Air Force for some years but I could n't say what they did for work . |
| 12 | crash , bang , wallop , gone what they did for work today a little bit of exercise , desk work a lot of exercise , exercise . |
| 13 | It seemed that he was about to slap her and she leaned forward to take it , accepting it as the thing one did for hysteria . |
| 14 | It is the same kind of calculation as we did for haemoglobin , and it produces a similarly large result . |
| 15 | Let us try to account for the ( most probable ) different interpretations of bank in the way that we did for car . |
| 16 | Commenting upon the teaching of reading the report takes teachers to task for effectively teaching the mechanics of reading but failing in the process to help children recognise that reading was ‘ something that people did for pleasure , . |
| 17 | For each day there is a diet sheet , more interesting key facts , and a weight and symptom chart for your to complete as you did for Stage I. It is vital that you keep this chart up to date : you will undoubtedly need to refer back at some point during the next few weeks , so the records are nothing short of vital ! |
| 18 | What O'Neillism did for Paisleyism was to raise in a concrete way the possibility of change from being a Protestant society and culture ( constantly threatened by the old enemy within and without ) to being a secular modern society in which religious affiliation would be of little consequence . |
| 19 | This is particularly true , and actually is what I 'm leading to in this story is that three years later , when Robert Priest hit Esquire two years later , the Rolling Stone look was supplanted by the Esquire look in terms of popular design and imagination , and I remember people said to me ‘ well Roger what are you going to do , your style is out of date ’ and my reaction to this was ‘ well , hold on a second , it 's not my style for one , and number two this is just traditional style , this was never intended to be a trend ’ , and fortunately it 's sort of gone — right now it 's back — so Rolling Stone even picked up the format that , you know , the Morris–Jenson typeface that we did for headline and stuff , and it 's back in there . |
| 20 | He then uses much the same repertory of colours and patterns and fin displays as he did for aggression , but in a female these trigger a series of different responses that eventually culminates in the laying of eggs . |
| 21 | ‘ I want to thank you for all you did for Mam . |
| 22 | We wished to compare those living in the same areas ( as we did for arrest rates ) and decided to exclude areas with less than 10 per cent . |
| 23 | Control the nitrite levels in the same way as you did for ammonia and eventually you will reach a point where you will get a nil reading for both . |
| 24 | The piece is very closely related to the other two pieces that he did for flute and clarinet . |
| 25 | This is probably the reason for its universal acceptance as something to be cherished , and for its survival despite all religious disapproval which from time to time has endeavoured to denigrate it , as did for example , some of the teachings of Puritanism . |
| 26 | So when a chaplain goes to war as he did for example in the Falklands , he goes with his men erm and he 's erm not armed at all . |
| 27 | At first television did for celluloid what the San Francisco earthquake had done for property . |
| 28 | Men did not get rich through running as they did through boxing . |
| 29 | Was this something you did after school in the evenings ? |
| 30 | Not many teams have dominated Liverpool in front of the Kop as Leeds did after halt time . |