Example sentences of "they did [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Mrs Robson said , people had taken to war like they did to life : they had accepted it and were living with it and with all the things it did to them ; but why did them up top have to go and stop the flower trains coming from Cornwall ? |
| 2 | His aim was to eliminate the importation of distilled spirits , for which his main rationale was the damage they did to health . |
| 3 | Most everybody in the house had gone to work , or whatever it was they did during daylight , and as I was only two feet away I reached over and slipped the lock , taking the phone receiver with me . |
| 4 | They did of course no such thing for membership was on a voluntary basis and they only represented the local Councils who had sent them . |
| 5 | And you knew what they were thinking , they were trying to weigh up whether they dare go across the stepping stones and you could tell by their faces and what they did of course when they decided no it was beyond them and they 'd play safe and they 'd go back the same way . |
| 6 | But as it grows it will look deep into its hardback licences , and I fear some ugly clawback scenes arising as they did with Mandarin . |
| 7 | The fellows never seemed to rib the other NAAFI girls very much : they joked with them , but not in the same way as they did with Lemon . |
| 8 | ‘ It was very interesting learning about the crew and what they did on board . |
| 9 | Government orders forbade anyone to show the natives how to use such weapons , yet inevitably they did on occasion obtain them and use them to deadly effect , though their culture might be basically Stone Age . |
| 10 | The same group placed much more emphasis on their children being happy and enjoying their lessons than they did on examination results . |
| 11 | Perhaps in time they 'll turn more of their songs into group showcases , as they did on Cash 's Big River , but as the Highwaymen rode into the sunset , they 'd succeeded in that most country of missions : they 'd kept their pride intact , and their boots on . |
| 12 | There is no evidence to suggest that such orientation has the same religious significance as they did for Teotihuacan . |
| 13 | Margaret was in the Air Force for some years but I could n't say what they did for work . |
| 14 | crash , bang , wallop , gone what they did for work today a little bit of exercise , desk work a lot of exercise , exercise . |
| 15 | So you can imagine the door and the air coming through , you 're driving seven hours , we had put my bro I do n't know what they did at night , because of |
| 16 | On the whole their families did not know what they did at work . |
| 17 | Philip did n't eat tea like they did at home . |
| 18 | I know you know of it and have even assayed it in a pipe , as they did at court when Astraea ruled and she was inclined to taste it now and then . |
| 19 | they 're eating better than they did at dinner time . |
| 20 | ‘ Do you know what they did at Christmas and Easter ? ’ she asked , enjoying Mungo 's obvious interest in the story . |
| 21 | Men did not get rich through running as they did through boxing . |
| 22 | Where they survived as currency down to modern times , as they did in west Africa and locally in south-east Asia , it was only as small change . |
| 23 | Once recognised , they can claim , as they did in response to The Satanic Verses , that their world view and their power are divine and therefore unassailable . |
| 24 | Well , no I do n't say a lot , but more people than they did in peace days even then you know . |
| 25 | Many critics of the Orange state suppose that unionists followed the politics they did in order to maintain and increase their material position at the expense of the Catholic nationalist population . |
| 26 | At least this time they do not threaten to stone Moses as they did in Exodus 17 . |
| 27 | The angles should always add up to 720° as they did in question 13 . |
| 28 | ‘ I accept that the local authority and the social workers behaved in the way in which they did in error , but it is an important constitutional matter , and to mark the position , and so that local authorities shall not be under any misapprehension about their powers , I order that the costs of this application be paid by the local authority . |
| 29 | I mean , surely the English hens were laying at the same rate as they did in peacetime ? |
| 30 | By contrast in Kufra people did acknowledge circumstances in which they might have to unite with their enemies ; in 1978 they did in fact do so . |