Example sentences of "did the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days there was a small core of paid research staff who were responsible for a large number of countries — if you did the Soviet Union , you were also responsible for Eastern Europe and half of Western Europe as well ! ’ |
| 2 | Skvorecky left his country to teach in North America — as did the Dubcekite Klima — and has improved the shining hours of a Canadian exile . |
| 3 | As did the author of the book , who is a painter and who was then at the Slade , she discovered , he tells us , that ‘ the people with the beautiful faces were also , mysteriously , the ones it was most fun to be with ’ . |
| 4 | I did the well trodden path , with phoebe in As You Like It . |
| 5 | Did the drama school include any of that ? |
| 6 | For Juliet I did ‘ Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face ’ and for Hermia I did the ‘ puppet ’ speech . |
| 7 | Not only did the church 's social teaching directly enter into the definition of rights , wrongs , and obligations within this nation state , but it was also to affect one aspect of the structure of government . |
| 8 | Papal encyclicals came to be consulted by this route , as did the current treatises of Ius Publicun on church — state relations . |
| 9 | Rosenblum that day in the queue at Camisi 's : What did the good Lord create us for if not to be fathers ? |
| 10 | Anyway , she was the one who did the talking . |
| 11 | Not only did the idea come too late , he wrote , not only did the discipline come too late , not only did the resolution of individual problems come too late , but they came so late that I was not even aware of their lateness , and so they were doubly false and doubly useless and doubly meaningless . |
| 12 | Not only did the idea come too late , he wrote , not only did the discipline come too late , not only did the resolution of individual problems come too late , but they came so late that I was not even aware of their lateness , and so they were doubly false and doubly useless and doubly meaningless . |
| 13 | Not only did the idea come too late , he wrote , not only did the discipline come too late , not only did the resolution of individual problems come too late , but they came so late that I was not even aware of their lateness , and so they were doubly false and doubly useless and doubly meaningless . |
| 14 | As did the House Manager who roamed throughout performances in the foyer or the staircases , the bars of Stalls , Dress Circle and Upper Circle , keeping an eye on programme girls ( most of them certainly mature ) who , in their black dresses and little aprons , ushered , sold programmes and in the intervals brought trays of tea and biscuits ( coffee in the evenings ) , while in the orchestra pit the band ( tuxedoed , although who knew whether their trousers matched ) played pleasing music . |
| 15 | ‘ Where did the patter come in then ? ’ enquired Detective Constable Bewman . |
| 16 | So did the next rumour . |
| 17 | Weeding , edging , mowing , prinking , pruning ; we did the lot . |
| 18 | Hell with it , what did the bitch know , thought Jay , trying to toughen up . |
| 19 | Near enough ) , ‘ did the baillies and the constables protect the citizens from the bully-boys with their clubs and handcuffs ? |
| 20 | It went well , as did the second and the third lessons . |
| 21 | The first lines gripped him ; as did the next verse ; and then the whole poem . |
| 22 | In the meantime we may note that , right or wrong , balanced or not , Leonard spoke from the heart — as did the prophets of old ; the sell-out qualities of the book demonstrated the need , as well as his astuteness in compiling his selection . |
| 23 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 24 | Did the same again . |
| 25 | The black fly were more tenacious , clinging beneath the elderberry leaves and disfiguring the stalks of the nicotania ; but I killed them too eventually — regular doses of poison dust did the trick . |
| 26 | John Flavell ( see Cognitive Development ) did the following experiment with pre-school children . |
| 27 | Then he came back and did the class . |
| 28 | NOWHERE did the 1980s have a greater impact than on the services which at sectorisation became Network SouthEast ( NSE ) . |
| 29 | How did the transformation come about ? |
| 30 | As music and musical instruments developed and became more flexible , so did the dance . |