Example sentences of "did be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But then it was a creature of its time , and its time and the work it did were about the last election , not the next one .
2 However , in spite of having continually plundered Arabia through the centuries and taken thousands of its best horses , by the beginning of this century few of their descendants remained and those that did were in a very sorry state of deterioration .
3 She always worked in good places , in the West End ; the hands she did were in Vogue once .
4 The piece I did is on one side , and on the other is a piece by The Kronos Quartet , called Different Trains . ’
5 I thought , would n't it be good though if they , if what they did is on that day we went they pick everyone who wanted like the jobs yeah
6 Everything we did was of the very lightest weight however heavy the humour .
7 The other piece of extra-curricular casting I did was of the young boy playing the grandson — ‘ voice like an angel ’ — Oliver .
8 Anythin' I ever did was for me family .
9 It was a tradition that avoided any real contemplation of the root causes of German unease ; their preference for ‘ action ’ , rested secure in the knowledge that everything they did was for the good of the nation , sanctioned by law and sanctioned by the German people .
10 But the last thing I did was for a guitar player in Nashville , Chip Young , who put together an album — which incidentally is getting released pretty soon — and he has ten tracks with ten different guests : local session players , myself , Chet 's on one , Grady Martin , Jerry Reed , Jerry Kennedy , Wayne Moss and various other guys , but I think guitar players out there will like it . ’
11 ‘ Everything they did was for their business .
12 ‘ The first film I did was with these other guys who were a little camera shy , ’ recalls Rod , who has appeared in a number of Sara 's group sex films .
13 one I did was with Caledonian Paper at Irvine and the Finns or the Swedes whoever own
14 ‘ For what I did was on the King 's instructions . ’
15 The worst thing they ever did was on the leader page , the last one they got rid of the Extended Titling on .
16 All I did was to out on a raid — unofficially .
17 And in fact I found from playing with Eric , that it was much more fun to just turn up and the first playing you did was to the audience .
18 In every way , Henry V acted as if all that he did was to be lasting in its effects .
19 that went out to erm making up argu , you know if you 'd fallen out with somebody you had to make up with them before the bells , and in fact what my granny did was to erm to empty the fire and to relay the fire for the new year
20 They 've they 've sent , we have a bank account , the first thing we did was to o This is the steering committee .
21 The residue one is a problem as well Chairman , because when we had the sheep dipping campaigns , one of the things that we did was to , to just carry out some very quick rough checks at markets in this county to see whether in fact sheep were being withheld from slaughter sale for the required period .
22 Since the Headmaster had been in a bad mood almost everything anyone did was at the risk of being punished .
23 Whilst everything that Becker did was at white heat and lightning speed , with drastic simplifications , Squirrell delighted in working with extremely precise topographical accuracy .
24 ‘ 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 .
25 ‘ Everything I did was like stepping stones to Hawaii . ’
26 That they took on the importance they did was in part the fault of the government .
27 On the same day , the eighteenth of October , Mr came back and spoke to Miss about this telephone call and he rang Peter in the afternoon of that Friday and he asked again if it was possible to withdraw because of the landlord 's failure to consent to the er assignment and again er after what will er be described as a fairly easy discussion between the plaintiff and er Mr , er he was told very clearly that it was not possible for him to withdraw , contracts had been exchanged and he was advised that what the landlords er failure to consent did was in fact er provide Mr with more breathing space in order to obtain proper funding and re-arrange his finances er , that again is denied .
28 The first show I did was in Oxford .
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