Example sentences of "[noun prp] did be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Thorfinn did was earn a breathing-space , and the right to lodge some sort of defence in the area . |
| 2 | The next thing Shiona did was phone Glasgow Central Station and book two sleepers on the overnight train that left just before midnight . |
| 3 | What Durkheim did was transform or recontextualise the official statistics , which he well knew were less than satisfactory in many respects , produced by officials for administrative purposes , and relate them to his theoretical concerns . |
| 4 | They were all things to which the audience could relate and the more they related the more they laughed — which gave instant satisfaction not just to Charlie Williams and Lou ( who , of course , thought that everything her Ken did was wonderful ) but to Michael Codron , the producer and the young man who wrote it all — Peter Cook . |
| 5 | All Angus did was pull his robe tighter around him and slump in one of the high-backed chairs to glower at us . |
| 6 | All Mr Fractor did was write huge sums on his blackboards . |
| 7 | Constanza and Simon used to call her Miss Mouse because she was so meek and mild and everything Simon did was perfect . |
| 8 | but , no I went out , no what Pete did is he ran across , ran out the door and then everyone left and that was it , I thought . |
| 9 | She adds : ‘ You would n't castigate the British servicemen who appeared on the television during the Gulf war and said that whatever Saddam Hussein did was good and whatever the Allies did was bad . |
| 10 | All Connor did was to add a preservative to this enzyme that gave it a few months ' shelf life . |
| 11 | All Eddie did was to wait a bit and then lean over without a sound and lay the gun barrel across her back cheeks . |
| 12 | But all Goddard did was to tell a succession of risqué and not at all funny stories more suited to the smoking-room than to a dinner in mixed company . |
| 13 | But what Hume did was criticize the logic of using apparent design in nature as positive evidence for the existence of a God . |
| 14 | ‘ I am satisfied that there are no grounds on which I can say that these charges are bad , but with regard to the equity of redemption I am satisfied on the evidence that what Mrs. Wardman did was at the request of and in reliance on her daughter , and under her influence . |
| 15 | What Einstein did was to suggest that there exists a tensor identity between space–time curvature and a tensor , the stress-energy tensor , describing the distribution of matter . |
| 16 | What Orowan did was to measure the strength of Muscovite mica in tension . |
| 17 | Miss Geyer writes : ‘ The new thing in history that Castro did was to destroy the Communist Party and create his own Fidelista Party , which he called Communist in order to stand up against the United States and to gain backing and to borrow power from the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 18 | What Peg did was to take a bed-sheet from home and sneak off with it . |
| 19 | Whilst everything that Becker did was at white heat and lightning speed , with drastic simplifications , Squirrell delighted in working with extremely precise topographical accuracy . |
| 20 | Well , let's say clearly about Channel 4 that what Jeremy Isaacs did was quite unique . |
| 21 | ‘ Jack did be married , ’ said Damian . |
| 22 | It was common practice for marriage registers to record the places of abode of the newly-weds , and what Kendall did was to use this information to construct a crude measure of dissimilarity between villages based on frequency of intermarriage over a long period . |
| 23 | What Mendel did was rather different . |
| 24 | And all Antoine did was sit there like a Buddha with that irritating smirk on his face . |
| 25 | Mind you , that 's what our Brian did were n't it ? |
| 26 | Everything the Bookman did was recorded one way or another and now the piles of notes , drawings and maps were locked away in a safe . |
| 27 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 28 | The fact that Lewis did is not a sign that he was illogical , merely that he was caught up in a spiritual drama which involved more than ‘ paper logic ’ . |
| 29 | Yeah I think that what Clinton did was to play on that to get elected and you know he wanted people to see him as that , but |
| 30 | Now , what Darwin 's reflections on Malthus did was to move him away from a prenatal , maturational sorting of adaptive from maladaptive variation . |