Example sentences of "did [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted to co-ordinate an article about trees and pollution and Jay and Francis had discovered a photographer who only did trees and did them brilliantly . |
| 2 | It was not just the Iraqis ' perfidy that did them down . |
| 3 | It was up to Greenidge and , apart from being dropped on 26 , he did them proud . |
| 4 | Many of the singers were what we call verpflichtet : they were contracted to do so many performances and they simply turned up and did them . |
| 5 | But Leicester 's win over Sunderland did them no favours , nor did sharing the points after Allen put Millwall ahead after 11 minutes . |
| 6 | These pieces represent English Romanticism at its peak and nobody did them better than Beecham . |
| 7 | At the beginning of the campaign the Secretary of State approved the application by Forresterhill Royal Infirmary in Aberdeen to become a trust ; the Tories ' revival in and around Aberdeen suggests this did them no damage at all . |
| 8 | And when they were espoused the King did them great honour , and gave them many noble gifts , and added to Rodrigo 's lands more than he had till then possessed : and he loved him greatly in his heart , because he saw that he was obedient to his commands , and for all that he had heard him say . |
| 9 | And he commanded and requested the Christians that they should show great honour to the Moors , and respect them , and greet them when they met : and the Moors thanked the Cid greatly for the honour which the Christians did them , saying that they had never seen so good a man , nor one so honourable , nor one who had his people under such obedience . |
| 10 | ‘ We 're looking for things people remember for certain , ’ Miller says , ‘ and they often do n't recall why they did them . ’ |
| 11 | I did them to Manuela , but with Karen . |
| 12 | ‘ So they thought that a lot of the people who could n't go to Knebworth would maybe come to the shows if we did them in London — Earls Court and places like that . |
| 13 | One of their companies reached Ainaro , questioned the local priests and some natives , but did them no harm . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , some of their riders then did them no favours whatsoever by steering for the rail and getting them penned in the pack . |
| 15 | Nora and I used to say that the war did them all a power of good . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | In the long run , a little relegation did them no harm . |
| 18 | When I realised there was nothing else to do in the world but write my own songs and play , that 's when I brought them out and did them . |
| 19 | Most important of all , he did them so well that those who saw him then still today , thirty-seven years on , speak of him with awe . |
| 20 | But it 's the story of how I did them , of what happened to me in doing them . |
| 21 | These women did themselves well , at least their husbands did them well . |
| 22 | I did n't know you did them ! |
| 23 | Altogether , I did them a good turn . |
| 24 | They were caught in a vicious circle : in low-paid jobs because they were women , while the jobs were low-paid because women did them . |
| 25 | You should get the same answer if you did them both . |
| 26 | Part of the problem with encouraging girls to take ‘ useful ’ subjects is that we do not know whether it makes any difference to the kinds of jobs they eventually do ; and whether , indeed , these jobs would still be highly rated if women did them . |
| 27 | " John did them . |
| 28 | Some of them will be the same ones that we 've already done so do n't look at the do n't look at these just try them on your own try and remember how you did them . |
| 29 | And if you get stuck go back and have a look how you did them here . |
| 30 | As fast as he undid them I did them up again , so that when he got to my waist and sighed he recoiled with indignation and astonishment to find that his labour had been in vain . |