Example sentences of "to [noun] [conj] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | They felt it was the duty of America to stop the world toppling to Communism and did everything they could to stop Ho Chi Minh . |
| 2 | It was the sort you sit up in , and there were two other people being taken home at the same time , so we did n't go straight to Fulham but did a detour through Kensington . |
| 3 | As it turned out , I went to Cosford and did run the 60 metres . |
| 4 | I did that until Elvis came out of the Army , and then we went back to work with him , went in and did the sessions , did an album in Nashville , got on a train , went to Miami and did the Frank Sinatra show . |
| 5 | As a young man he emigrated to England but did not become a British citizen until 1918 , though he served in the War Office Intelligence Department during World War I. |
| 6 | He returned to Argentina and did menial jobs before putting himself through university in America . |
| 7 | The declaration stated that , whereas heretofore , to wit , etc. , in consideration that the plaintiff , at the request of the defendant , had then consented to allow the defendant to weigh divers , to wit two , boilers of the plaintiff , of great value , etc. , defendant promised that he would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected , leave and give up the boilers in as perfect and complete a condition , and as fit for use by plaintiff , as the same were in at the time of the consent so given by plaintiff ; and that , although in pursuance of the consent so given , defendant to wit , on , etc. , did weigh the same boilers , yet defendant did not nor would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected leave and give up boilers in as perfect , etc. , but wholly neglected and refused so to do , although a reasonable time for that purpose had elapsed before the commencement of this suit ; and , on the contrary thereof , defendant afterwards , to wit on , etc. , took the said boilers to pieces and did not put the same together again but left the same in a detached and divided condition , and in many different pieces , whereby plaintiff hath been put to great trouble , etc . |
| 8 | so I went up to Streatham and did voluntary work in the maternity home |
| 9 | Firms that did better than the target would be rewarded with credits which they could sell to firms that did worse . |
| 10 | ‘ I was perfectly within my rights to speak to Wimbledon and did so out of courtesy . |
| 11 | ‘ But I 've never known a crew planning to mutiny that did not show some sign of it before , ’ said the captain . |
| 12 | The Duc d'Orléans refused Stair 's demand to hand over the ships and their contents to Byng but did agree to unload the weapons and remove them for safe keeping to a French arsenal , a notable diplomatic triumph . |
| 13 | ‘ I remember the first time we went to bed and did the business . |
| 14 | I even helped you to bed and did not demand to stay with you . ’ |
| 15 | Victoria , at last , went to sleep and did not see the slow beginnings of London nor wake when the train finally halted at the arched and echoing terminus . |
| 16 | We can explain that they come from an age when theology and the natural sciences were not divorced from one another , when God was held directly responsible for disasters we would now call ‘ natural ’ , and for which we would have scientific explanations to hand that did not mention God at all . |
| 17 | A well-known Peronist dissident and Menem critic Saúl Ubaldini , the leader of the major CGT union confederation , failed to be elected as a deputy to Congress as did Alvaro Alsogaray , former minister and leader of the centre-right Union of the Democratic Centre ( UCeDé ) . |
| 18 | While the procedure was to some extent artificial and led to conclusions that did not always stand up to later study , it did at least mean that the different forms of early Christian teaching could now be admitted for discussion , and the possibility of real conflict between opposing views recognised as a natural and proper element in the development . |
| 19 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 20 | When his mother took him to school on the first day , he decided from then onwards he could make his own way to school and did n't hesitate in telling his mother just that . |
| 21 | But I should not have been sent straight from school to Somerville on Classics ; I wanted to swap to History but did not know enough , so I was encouraged to do P.P.E. I was bored by both Philosophy and Economics so I only worked at Politics ’ . |
| 22 | And he spent two days trying to impress this upon Forbus and Forbus went back to Arkansas and did exactly what he said he was going to do . |
| 23 | There were twenty of us , other chaps in much the same boat as me , Nancy our tutor was cheerful , down to earth and did not expect us to be cordon bleu cooks . |
| 24 | I jumped into the car after my mum , dad and sister had squeezed and kissed me to death and did up my seat belt . |