Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] do was " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the work they did was , as far as Theodora could see , amongst the best the Church could offer . |
| 2 | and er I went there and they give me an estimate and erm when it went in the contacts she does was er no , it 's it 's more than we thought because the chassis 's twisted or |
| 3 | The other piece of extra-curricular casting I did was of the young boy playing the grandson — ‘ voice like an angel ’ — Oliver . |
| 4 | ‘ The first day 's threshing I done was for a man by the name of Rogers , Harry Rogers . |
| 5 | That they took on the importance they did was in part the fault of the government . |
| 6 | Now the first job he did was to get you well acquainted with the tools , which we had quite a number of them . |
| 7 | The last bit we did was only the small numbers . |
| 8 | ‘ We beat off intense competition to win and one of the reasons we did was because of the high level of investment made in equipment by NOS . ’ |
| 9 | The day after her double transplant one of the first things she did was to grab her mother 's hand and say : ‘ I 'll be able to grow up and have kids now , wo n't I ? ’ |
| 10 | The sort of things we did was go to private parties , go to gay clubs , troll around pubs in South London where they had drag shows . |
| 11 | But when we took it over the , one of the first things we did was to redesign the kitchen because the soup was made in these great boiler and it was probably heated up every day of the week and can imagine what it would be like being in prison . |
| 12 | I do n't know , perhaps really like to relocate people , you know , that might be something which came as one of things they did was n't it , in the fifties and sixties . |
| 13 | Graham Tregidon became WRU president at the annual general meeting in June and one of the first things he did was go into print in the next issue of the union 's newsletter to plead unity . |
| 14 | One of the first things he did was to activate a small probe , with which he scanned his surroundings . |
| 15 | ‘ One of the things he did was this : On the quiet he 'd heat up the ends of two thin iron rods . |
| 16 | Neither their range nor their alignment being of more than average accuracy , the damage they did was haphazard but promising . |
| 17 | Almost t' last good turn they did was buildin' them steppin'-stones acrost t' river . |
| 18 | So the first thing I did was to spend ten years with the Royal Shakespeare Company ! |
| 19 | The first thing I did was to refurbish my 1973 vehicle , of course I have kept it in good order . |
| 20 | The first thing I did was to get used to it . |
| 21 | ‘ The first thing I did was close down half the company . |
| 22 | ‘ The first thing I did was clap my hands . |
| 23 | For me , as a guitar player , the first thing I did was plug my guitar in ! |
| 24 | But the last thing I did was for a guitar player in Nashville , Chip Young , who put together an album — which incidentally is getting released pretty soon — and he has ten tracks with ten different guests : local session players , myself , Chet 's on one , Grady Martin , Jerry Reed , Jerry Kennedy , Wayne Moss and various other guys , but I think guitar players out there will like it . ’ |
| 25 | I 'd read on the back of a record about open tunings , so the first thing I did was follow Elmore James and tune to D. |
| 26 | So the first thing I did was distil it down to seven pages of figures accompanied by seven pages of narrative , designed to make sure that the board was properly informed . |
| 27 | In fact the first thing I did was ring my 35-year-old daughter who has been a ‘ fitness freak ’ ever since Jane Fonda took to jumping about our TV screens and warned her not to overdo it if she intended to buy the tape — which I am certain she does . |
| 28 | ‘ I moved to London and the first thing I did was track down the nearest bloke . |
| 29 | ‘ I moved to London and the first thing I did was track down the nearest bloke . |
| 30 | They were absolutely horrid and if I went on the beach , the first thing I did was to dig a hole in the sand to put the feet in and then just stay there all day … . |