Example sentences of "they did [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they did Arthur |
| 2 | They did n't rate the animal results , and they did lab tests instead . |
| 3 | They spent as much time decorating the table as they did making the food . |
| 4 | They did acquit themselves well with heavier strings and a flat pick , but in the main they were seen as fingerpicking guitars . |
| 5 | We did that and they did self defence as well as five-a-side football , but the opportunities are n't there for them ! |
| 6 | You could n't often get big sizes in them & I do n't think they did boys ' sizes in Dr. Martens — when they did , some girls wore them . |
| 7 | But that was the way they did things over there — well-meaning but fussy . |
| 8 | ‘ The problem with all these stars , ’ said Peter Fairley , ‘ was that the moment they started to know that we were interested in what they could do , and we started to investigate how they did things , it just went . |
| 9 | You can see that there 's no point in the Bible writers wasting ink explaining how to go out with someone who fancies you when ‘ going out ’ and ‘ fancying ’ were n't part of the way that they did things then ! |
| 10 | Sometimes they did things to you though , it was either that or you were frightened to death , I 'm not quite sure which . . |
| 11 | To paraphrase L. P. Hartley , both the past and Vietnam are other countries as they did things differently there . |
| 12 | They did things to the mind . |
| 13 | Ah but everybod er sorry , they did things for me |
| 14 | However , they did 5% less well than in 1988 , and their attempts to castigate high spending Labour metropolitan authorities seemed to backfire . |
| 15 | I was just trying to remember whether they did Joan 's do at the last year . |
| 16 | Whirligigs of bubblegum-pink and fuchsia , mauve , lime and café au lait look even more fun now than they did back in the Sixties — when men last loved them . |
| 17 | Their back doors were protected by makeshift porches of ribbed plastic , and the gardens grew as many derelict motor bikes as they did dahlias and cabbages . |
| 18 | They did Cinderella in me , erm |
| 19 | They 've shot me like they did Valesio . |
| 20 | It might have been expected that the tribal masks and statuettes that had such a profound effect on Picasso 's painting would have excited him to a new activity in the field of sculpture as they did Derain and , to a certain extent , Matisse . |
| 21 | There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know . |
| 22 | They did pressure me quite a lot about how I looked , but I never gave in to their attempts to convert me to pink ; I wanted to look different , and in the main I was quite happy with my image . |
| 23 | The team was regarded by many , including James Michener , as having a negative impact : ‘ I strongly suspect that the Harlem Globetrotters did more damage racially than they did good , because they deepened the stereotype of ‘ the loveable , irresponsible Negro ’ ’ ( 1976 , p.145 ) . |
| 24 | The actual vicar was er it was high , a high church , Father and then there was er he was a vicar and he used to live in the vicarage which is higher up than the church at the back of the church Street , and there was Father , he used to run the Boy Scouts troop , and there were , I believe there were , there was two curates , I , I think the other one was named , but in those days either in Street I think it was in Street there was er two or three Sisters of Mercy that used to live down there , and they used to , cos being high church they were able to go , they did n't do any preaching or anything like that but they did parish work around the parish you know , they used to , they used to call them Sisters of Mercy . |
| 25 | And they were er er erm house higher up they were Italian like Italian they did coffee you know you could smell them grinding , and hams and old old style grocery shop , tea and all that sort of stuff . |
| 26 | When we were walking over here this morning , I was suggesting to you that in fact computers , really , were numeric devices — they did arithmetic _ and I 'm not sure you actually agreed with me . |
| 27 | If they did Pembridge exploded that cosy little notion . |
| 28 | Yes er that 's been the essence of what I 've wanted is er I 've , I 've had to have what I 've wanted by hook or by crook , and I do n't mean crook in a bad sense , I mean one way or another , you know what I mean and er I did job for the casters , same as they did jobs for me , you know and that 's how I 've gone through life , that is Michael . |
| 29 | But equally they did Silas Marner and er Merchant of Venice , a good standard , too . |
| 30 | Recently , an ambassador told me that issues such as defence and foreign policy were surely on a different plane from economic issues , involving as they did considerations of history , culture and identity . |