Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] did [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For although the Home Rule movement did for a time grow apace , with an ever increasing number of SNP candidates being elected to Parliament and , under the Callaghan administration , the old High School building on Calton Hill being refurbished to accommodate a Scottish debating-chamber ( the old one had become incorporated in the Law Courts ) , the idea of Home Rule made many of my countrymen uneasy ; less , I think , about financial disadvantages ( for oil revenue would have compensated for that ) than at the prospect of feuding between east and west , north and south , and , for some , the prospect of a semi-permanent Labour administration ; and when in 1979 a referendum of the whole Scottish nation was held , the votes in favour of Home Rule did not attain the clear 40 per cent majority on which the House of Commons had insisted . |
| 2 | The excitement of free cash was certainly not worth it on that occasion and what the ups and downs of a baseball game did to Uncle Mick 's blood pressure and heart-beat count was not something a loving nephew dared to consider . |
| 3 | And for many in New York , it is a game show : in the Nineties the censorship debate is keeping contemporary art in the media spotlight , just as obscene auction prices did in the Eighties . |
| 4 | More importantly , if you were doing the exercise Mr did over the weekend , how would you score the sector ? |
| 5 | One can say , as the Audit Commission did in 1986 , that at its heart is the idea of a " structured care process " The Audit Commission model is that care is organised around 3 elements : the assessment of need prescribing care reviewing and monitoring care outcomes . |
| 6 | As Jeffrey Weeks has pointed out , for Ellis and his fellow socialist Edward Carpenter , sexual equality was above all an ethical concern , involving equal recognition for the work women did as wives and mothers . |
| 7 | Much of the casual work women did at home was categorised as ‘ sweated ’ . |
| 8 | Women factory inspectors agreed that the less work women did in factories the better it would be for their home life and children 's welfare , but they were also forced to admit that working women usually needed their earnings . |
| 9 | PRC reportedly spent $15m getting the contract with sources attributing the expense to hardware components and the integration work PRC did on the systems . |
| 10 | Yet that 's exactly what wrestler Davey Boy Smith did after years of painful dedication . |
| 11 | NT now also incorporates parallelism in its communications subsystem thanks to the work Sequent did on adding parallel streams — the ability to have multiple processors running in one stream — to Unix . |
| 12 | Robin Smith 's power play against India at Perth ( Week 1 ) and the demolition job England did on Pakistan at Adelaide ( Week 2 ) put them into the favourites ' spot at the same time as Australia absorbed one stunning setback after another , alleviated only by the thrilling one-run victory over India at Brisbane . |
| 13 | He would have to make the same improvement as his stable-companion Forest Sun did from Chepstow to Ascot to be given a sporting chance here . |
| 14 | Ginsberg 's Howl actually came out while Leonard was there , doing for the fifties and sixties generation what Eliot 's The Waste Land did for the twenties and thirties , and not least Ginsberg 's ‘ A Supermarket In California ’ , in which he questioned Lorca 's lonely habits ; as did Lawrence Ferlinghetti 's Picture Of The Gone World . |
| 15 | There is good photographic evidence to suggest that Day Comet did in fact finish third , but the Epsom judge that day was the same Charles Robinson who had controversially denied Craganour the Two Thousand Guineas , and he placed Day Comet fifth . |
| 16 | like the car phone company did with |
| 17 | It did not do as much for his career as Midnight Cowboy did for Jon Voight . |
| 18 | You may remember the last thing the suede coat did before crashing down the alley was to blast off his sawn-off shotgun and watch us diving to the ground . |
| 19 | Prices in the shops and restaurants drop like the libeccio wind did for us and people have time to talk to you . |
| 20 | Whatever Massim 's cousin Sunil did for a living , he did it from an old-fashioned headmaster 's desk and a small personal computer . |
| 21 | Because what I S O Nine Thousand and One is is the result of the investigation that the American space scientists did in nineteen fifty nine , to find out what areas management are weak in . |
| 22 | Some clients use research surveys mainly as a publicity tool , an easy way to get a newspaper headline , as an insurance company did with a Gallup survey on the cost of raising children . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm going to do to you what my kid brother did to the rat . ’ |
| 24 | Maybe if I 'd been able to do some kind of planche , like your painter friend did on your … back , it would have been easy , but what I had to do was first try to get something akin to an erection standing at the copier of a deserted office on a holiday . |
| 25 | He had moreover , unlike Boethius , had the experience of seeing what Viking pirates did to his defenceless subjects ; and again unlike Boethius had taken such drastic measures against evil as hanging Viking prisoners , and rebellious monks , and in all probability cutting the throats of any wounded pirates so unlucky as to be left on the battlefield . |
| 26 | Brittain is always up with the lark and it was a nice piece of work that Needle Gun did under Roberts on the Side Hill woodchip gallops early on Tuesday that makes me select him for the Laburnum Stakes . |
| 27 | Quite how a man who could not bear to hurt a living thing after seeing the damage his childhood air-rifle did to a starling could serve as defence secretary is something of an enigma . |
| 28 | This rumour may have done what the poll tax did in 1381 , set fire to a potentially explosive situation , indeed one which had already shown signs of bursting into flame . |
| 29 | In reality they are too powerful to be challenged head on , although the thrift horrors did at least prompt the first congressional hearing into their finances for more than 30 years . |
| 30 | One group took the same path as the sea slugs did in more recent times and lost their shells altogether . |