Example sentences of "did thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than use his apartment as an extension of the office , Milton did things the other way round . |
| 2 | Nor did things improve as he grew beyond subjection to state reproof . |
| 3 | Only at the close of the summer did things improve at the central , though not yet at the local level . |
| 4 | He disapproved of his bishop ( A. A. David ) for the tough way in which he handled three recalcitrant Anglo-Catholic priests who refused to conform to rules laid down by the bishop and yet did nothing about the radical dean of the cathedral who did things equally nonconforming in a Low Church direction . |
| 5 | I always did things differently . |
| 6 | But that was the way they did things over there — well-meaning but fussy . |
| 7 | Then we did things like ‘ Love You Till Tuesday ’ which we did with a huge orchestra , as I recall , which was done in another studio . |
| 8 | Usually , David at the time would surround himself with friends who did things for him , thinking he would get things done out of loyalty . |
| 9 | When David did things that I thought were stupid , or when he did n't turn up , or he 'd turn up ‘ high ’ , I told him I thought he was stupid . |
| 10 | She often did things and said things that made him feel loved . |
| 11 | She did things which were deeply unpopular to a large section of the political community which she was striving to hold together . |
| 12 | I was always very nervous when trying to help a very dear elderly aunt , because I never did things quite the ‘ right ’ way ! |
| 13 | ‘ How did things go ? ’ asked Karelius . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | We did things like ‘ The Knife ’ ; that came fairly early on but got modified later . ’ |
| 17 | One person commented that when the local MP came to talk to his disability group he told them how good it was that they ‘ got on their own feet and did things ’ — which did n't go down too well with the wheelchair users . |
| 18 | It has to be said that the world would be a much better place if we just got on and did things instead of waiting for other people to do them on our behalf . |
| 19 | When we were born we did n't have this difficulty — we did things how we felt like , when we felt like and where we felt like . |
| 20 | She cared a lot and she did things to help , practical things like buying Blazer and writing to MPs and others about this animal transport business . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But the Store nomes never did things like that ! ’ said Masklin . |
| 22 | How did things go so badly wrong so quickly ? |
| 23 | ‘ I set out to wilfully parody other music papers like Melody Maker who were so pompous ( plus ça change ! ) so I did things like call our letters section Gasbag after MM 's rather earnest ‘ Mailbag ’ . |
| 24 | Location 75 : ( shudder ) ‘ The Master did things there . |
| 25 | He only ever did things he needed to do , and someone as economical with their emotions as that was not good lifetime material . |
| 26 | How did things get so nerve-wracking ? |
| 27 | This was a mind concentrator of the first order and forced us to examine every facet of our business and the way we did things . |
| 28 | The health and lifestyle survey reported that overall about 70 per cent of the British population reported that they ‘ did things ’ to promote their health . |
| 29 | Cortot could be a master of Gallic understatement but when the mood took him he hardly did things by halves . |
| 30 | " I used to be active in the church but not now , there used to be hell on if I did things in the church . |