Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] did [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experience did wonders for me . |
| 2 | The committee did sterling work on the hospitality front , and one more so than Gill Weymouth and the Social Committee who organised a credit trivia quiz . |
| 3 | Only when they were returning home in the dusk did James say , ‘ You 'll be right not to come back to Bewick . |
| 4 | In the past did people really deny support to relatives who were in no position to reciprocate , or at least who seemed unlikely to be able to do so ? |
| 5 | Only as the car was crunching softly to a halt in the gravel of the yard did Charlotte ask suddenly , but in a tone so subdued as to suggest that she had been contemplating the question for some time , and refrained from asking it only for fear of the answer : |
| 6 | Only as we entered the Tower did Benjamin lean over and whisper , ‘ Roger , pretend we discovered nothing . |
| 7 | Just as a queen bee unwittingly hosts tiny mites that have specialized to graze on her mouth parts , so at the bottommost end of the city did Kefalov house its recycler and scavenger tribes . |
| 8 | Just who the hell did Bliss think he was ? |
| 9 | And why in the hell did people watch Wogan ? |
| 10 | How the hell did Margaret get one of those ? |
| 11 | In any event , the controversy did Phantom no harm . |
| 12 | Only at the close of the summer did things improve at the central , though not yet at the local level . |
| 13 | Only in about the last quarter of the century did colour printing , in the form of chromolithographs , become at all usual ; and for expensive books , hand-colouring remained the norm well into the twentieth century . |
| 14 | It has been estimated , however , that at no point in the century did membership of such Societies exceed 6,000 , a figure roughly comparable to the number of adherents of the New Jerusalem Church of the Swedenborgians . |
| 15 | Throughout the rest of the year did folk visit one another ? |
| 16 | The combination of photolithography and the new Plastocowell process used in producing the cover did Minton 's colour sense full justice . |
| 17 | Location 75 : ( shudder ) ‘ The Master did things there . |
| 18 | Silently they watched the passengers leave , and only when the last ones had laughed and chatted their way into the hotel did Claudia manage to relax . |
| 19 | Where in the north did Ipuky 's wife go ? |
| 20 | And we were down to sixty seconds when the referee did Watford another favour spotting an elbow in the face and sticking to his guns . |
| 21 | Only when a French-speaking member of staff read the label did problems arise . |
| 22 | Only when Holly 's hand was on the envelope did Adimov release his fingers ' grip . |
| 23 | Not until he was several minutes within the house did Moran leave the plantation . |
| 24 | Not by so much as a blink did Rose betray his own surprise at seeing Naseby , whose face had turned a delicate shade of puce . |
| 25 | On no occasion did Pointer seem bemused or in doubt but led us on , disregarding the ankle-deep snow and the sudden flurries and falls from over-hanging branches . |
| 26 | He received visits in the asylum , and Boswell reports that on one occasion , probably in 1760 , Dr Johnson thought Smart ought to be locked up ; his opinion varied , as no doubt did Smart 's condition , from time to time . |
| 27 | No at no time did P C get that close to the person lying on the ground . |
| 28 | At no time did England lack a government which could give direction to religious affairs , whether that of Henry VIII , Mary and Elizabeth , or the minority government of Edward VI , presided over by the exceedingly tough Somerset and Northumberland . |
| 29 | Even after the mid-1973 elections when the Popular Unity Coalition increased their share of the vote to 44 per cent , at no time did Allende have an overall Congressional majority . |
| 30 | At no time did Elizabeth I 's coffin explode . |