Example sentences of "did the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is one last question which the score can not help us settle — how did The Fairy Queen open in May 1692 : with Act 1 , scene 1 in the 1692 quarto ? |
| 2 | In the pantomime Cinderella , what did the fairy godmother use to make the coach ? |
| 3 | Why did the RHA decide to close Friern and Claybury ? ? |
| 4 | How then did the RHA develop its plan for closure ? |
| 5 | Modern archaeology shows that prehistoric societies were complex , though even without this it should have been obvious that only an essentially stable and intelligent society would have constructed a structure such as the Neolithic henge at Avebury and its complex could not have been constructed over such a span of time ; involving as it did the excavation of a quarter of a million tonnes of chalk and the transportation and erection of hundreds of stones weighing up to about 50 tonnes each . |
| 6 | By , by the end of the time when I er did the address I had about ten hearts all over the screen . |
| 7 | He had two foremans worked under him , the purpose being they did the shifts , my father did all the writing for the Great Central Railway Depot , the marshalling yard or sorting out the trains . |
| 8 | Ygarth the wild cat which savaged sheep and escaped drowning made its entrance as did the Burton trick of sinking a sconce ( two pints ) of college beer in ten seconds ( 'never been beaten ’ ) . |
| 9 | Only when he broke through into sight of the track and the buildings did the realisation hit him . |
| 10 | In response to the coup the Prime Minster , Alfonso de los Heros Perez Alba , immediately resigned as did the Attorney General , Pedro Méndez Jurado , who was replaced by Hugo Ernesto Denegri Cornejo . |
| 11 | The cherry berets did the scouting ; they did n't trust the Danuese battalions with this . |
| 12 | Neither did the sending of one or two injured players to Argentina earlier this year reflect well on the team management . |
| 13 | Both probably adhered more to the essential facts than did the lecturers on the City University evening course which the author attended . |
| 14 | all very high mucky muck stuff and they would n't trust me with anything but at least I did the copying work on it . |
| 15 | However , it turns out that the question is unacceptable when the final property is an adjective : ( 24 ) the jury found Ernest guilty : what did the jury do guilty ? |
| 16 | No , that 's why he was frightened when they did the alterations . |
| 17 | What did the Ministry expect , how did they think the men would react ? |
| 18 | 4.3 Once again , our interpretation has consequences for grammaticality and linguistic form which match observable data : First , it implies , inter alia , that adjectives which can not be ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase — such as the associatives — will be unacceptable here , just as they are in postnominal attributive position , and this is indeed the case : ( 19 ) how did the Ministry send their expert ? they sent their expert well-briefed they sent their expert meteorological ( 20 ) how do you find the new flag ? we find the flag gaudy we find the flag national |
| 19 | Later the addition of a third dimension in the form of cables and pipes sterilised the overlying surface as did the laying of rails to facilitate rapid movement by tram . |
| 20 | What time did the coach leave ? |
| 21 | Did the fiddlers have any local tunes ? |
| 22 | Even Miss Hervey had remarked on it when she did the test weigh ; seven days old , and taking so much already . |
| 23 | In all about one-third of the pupils who did the test actually used scissors . |
| 24 | and freaked out , right , er we did the test on Friday , right and he was n't in on the Monday |
| 25 | she said it 's hard enough for people with jobs to exist today without all this and she 's gone back to college on the flexi idea , erm , brush up her typing because she said , now whether she 's thinking of future years , she said when she left here that time , although she got that job she said it was n't easy , she said because I had no bits of paper as such , although when I did the test I passed it , she said it was n't simple , so she 's doing |
| 26 | How did the unit fit with the time available ? 2 . |
| 27 | Did the Unit never in fact settle on a simple enough statement of its function to entrust to journalists ? |
| 28 | He got out and did the Lord 's work . |
| 29 | expulsion from Paradise : " Unto Adam also and his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them . " |
| 30 | The holy weapon with which he did the Lord 's work , cleansing and punishing the fornicating Jezebels of the night , and with which he had punished the sodomite . |