Example sentences of "[vb past] do at " in BNC.
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| 1 | That of course is exactly what Akhenaten tried to do at the beginning another example the return of the repressed its original religious intolerance . |
| 2 | He did n't always win , and occasionally he came a cropper — just as he 'd done at Masons ' gates a few days before . |
| 3 | He came and stood beside me and picked out one of the new abstracts I 'd done at home . |
| 4 | You know I mean it 's so annoying and I wish now I 'd done at the time , wrote their names down . |
| 5 | Yeah I put all the nurseries , all the placements I 'd done at college an at and the employment . |
| 6 | The man they chose , John Frohnmayer , feels he managed to do at least that . |
| 7 | I mean it does n't affect the area , I mean ours did do at branch , our students were erm , I mean they started work in the poultries , and they all had , you know , big cardies , it came from handling . |
| 8 | The shrink asked Mitchum what he liked doing at parties . |
| 9 | I no longer saw them , indeed , as legless beings on self moving pedestals as I had done at Salisbury but from being so constantly restricted in movement it seemed that they must be incapable of movement . |
| 10 | He confessed to Beaton all that he had done at the behest of the English king , including ‘ the suppression of sundry abbeys and friaries ’ . |
| 11 | It was about six miles , a fair way for children , but we delighted in the story of what my father had done at the age of six . |
| 12 | ‘ Ah ! ’ he observed , as he had done at Bantry Bay , ‘ None but my brave English could do so brave an action ! ’ |
| 13 | Following the work that I had done at the MU on the Circuit Board Fault Diagnostic Aid in connection with my MSc project , 2 members of the staff had gained experience of expert systems : the Chief Technician and a civilian who had assisted me during the project . |
| 14 | With a shock it was brought home to Annie Oaks that they were the only family Lydia and Tobias had ever known , coming to Aumery Park Farm from the Union House as they had done at the ages of ten and twelve . |
| 15 | But this time , Anne did not promise to obey her spouse , as she had done at Westminster Abbey , nearly 20 years ago . |
| 16 | Even as late as June 1990 , the Zimbabwean President publicly expressed his disbelief at what the ungrateful Romanians had done at Christmas 1989 to his former honoured guests — but then he was still bent on making his country into a one-party state according to the tried and trusted recipe . |
| 17 | Edna enlarged upon how well Karen had done at college , how , although she was the youngest in her family , she was always being called upon whenever she was at home to help out with other people 's children , how she had passed her driving test at the first attempt . |
| 18 | She played with her lace handkerchief , just as she had done at Greenway Gardens . |
| 19 | He started successfully there , as he had done at Hawtrey 's , winning academic prizes and achieving a fair success at games . |
| 20 | She was not content to be insulted in cafés by waiters more rude than any to be found in Northam ; she could not accept the lowliness of her status , for it seemed to pain her more abroad than it had done at home , and she felt that she should somehow have escaped it , that she should have been changed , somehow , into something new . |
| 21 | In Minton 's case the attraction was the opportunity to do one day less a week than he had done at Camberwell or Central . |
| 22 | The day often began with people dropping in for breakfast , as they had done at Hamilton Terrace . |
| 23 | He mixed socially much less with Royal College students than he had done at Camberwell . |
| 24 | She had been standing on the bank above him with her booted feet apart , her hands jammed into the pockets of her tight-fitting breeches , and for a fleeting instant he looked at her appraisingly as he had done at the reception . |
| 25 | Evans flushed and looked far more embarrassed than he had done at any stage so far . |
| 26 | There was a bit less hair on his scalp but he looked as fit as he had done at their previous brief meetings . |
| 27 | The work was totally different to the volunteer work I had done at home and was quite a challenge . |
| 28 | And a card ‘ Happy Easter to My Mum ’ with a by now much bedraggled feather stuck on a drawing of , she supposed , an egg , that Clarissa had done at Nursery School ; and a hyacinth in a pot that Tom had got for Mother 's Day . |
| 29 | He took her arm as he had done at the house , his hand under her elbow , her weight against him , and she was powerless to alter the facts . |
| 30 | He did n't come quite under the heading of despised male sex but she was sure he had done at one time . |