Example sentences of "did [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | We did eventually rather lose touch , though we 'd sometimes meet in London when he was back . |
2 | Contrary to the old view that monks and nuns were brutally discarded into the roads to swell a growing army of miserable vagrants , most of them did remarkably well , with posts in the new Church of England or pensions . |
3 | Unionists did not wish to stand down where they had a candidate of their own ready to fight ; in these circumstances , the NDP did remarkably well in 1918 , winning eleven seats , all in Labour strongholds where neither Unionists nor Coalition Liberals had much desire to stand , and they beat both MacDonald and Henderson . |
4 | erm , and they did remarkably well , you know , taking it over , they were really very acceptable at the end , but the whole programme had this sub-plot of how antagonistic most of the prison officers were , not all of them , cos they obviously has some support to keep it going , but a lot of them were antagonistic towards what was going on , and not only that but just the the prison system , you know , this chap got transferred from one prison to another , when he was mid-way through rehearsals , you know , I mean why should n't he have stayed there , |
5 | We did a few vocals and overdubs and eventually the album was mixed bar one track , which he did somewhere else . |
6 | However , by the mid-eighteenth century this pine was being raised in this country by Lord Weymouth , Sir Wyndham Knatchbull in Kent and by the Duke of Argyll at Whitton , where large quantities of cones were produced annually , ‘ which his Grace did most generously distributte to all the curious . ’ |
7 | Andrew did most horribly revenge . |
8 | When it reached about 3ft I pinched out the top to make it branch , which it did most satisfactorily . |
9 | But he did rather cynically produce a proposal that the laibon ( or chief religious authority ) of the Tanganyika Masai , and his ‘ chosen men ’ , the laigwenak , should be constituted a Masai Native Authority . |
10 | This she did rather neatly by picking it up , tossing it in the air and catching it in her throat ; it was like a party trick . |
11 | Trade unions , in fact , did rather well during the 1930s . |
12 | His constitution was not at all what nice Mr Ashdown would approve , but the economy did rather well . |
13 | The job was carried out by piece workers who did rather well financially from carrying out what was a pretty filthy job . |
14 | It seems that the Tories did rather well in the general election by portraying devolu-tion and independence as being two heads of the same monster . |
15 | Eventually I joined a real estate company in New Jersey and did rather well . |
16 | The Hudson 's Bay Company went on trading at its posts on the shore of the Bay , and did rather well for its shareholders , but French fur traders moved out beyond the Great Lakes and by the 1740s La Verendrye had led them to places well west of the Bay . |
17 | Norman 's father , Marshall Field 's elder brother , Joseph , did rather well himself in banking before accepting a job with Marshall . |
18 | Dr Solomon 's Anti-Virus Toolkit 6.01 recently did rather well in an exhaustive test at the Virus test Centre at the University of Hamburg . |
19 | I did rather well there |
20 | You actually , I think , somewhere round Grand National time did rather well , did n't you ? |
21 | His first election was 1959 , when the polls did rather better than this year . |
22 | The British — who had dreamed up the Free City idea in the first place — came out of the exercise very badly , while the Dutch and Italians did rather better . |
23 | When it came to recovery , Britain did rather better than many leading competitors . |
24 | Even Captain Goldsborough , looking rather dangerous and disreputable the ladies were all saying — fascinating in fact — in a long , dark driving-cape with a black fur lining , had a word or two to whisper in Linnet's — ear , although he did rather more whispering , Gemma noticed , to the Amazonian Mrs Covington-Pym of whom her mother was so terribly afraid . |
25 | Tolkien did right normally to avoid such allusions , to keep like the author of Beowulf to a middle path between Ingeld and Christ , between the Bible and pagan myth . |
26 | But , as we have seen , regarding authentic Producers ' Co-operation as ‘ the rival doctrine ’ the Consumers ' Movement did little then to help , and so contributed to the inertia against which the industrial co-operative form has had to contend . |
27 | ‘ And yet , despite the Medicines Act and its regulations , CSM did little better with practolol once it had been marketed than was done without the legislation in the case of thalidomide ’ , we commented in 1980 . |
28 | But if a mortgage deed did expressly so provide , the enforceability of such a provision would , in our opinion , be open to serious question on public policy grounds . |
29 | In a fine speech that preceded the president 's , Colin Powell , the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff , said in essence that it was wrong for servicemen to hold back respect for their commander-in-chief simply because of what he did long ago . |
30 | I mean look , for forgetting the women , but just look look at who else did well in those elections and who did less well , you had the modernizers doing less well , the Tony Blairs and the Gordon Browns , and you had the traditionalists , or the perceived traditionalists if you prefer , er the John Prescotts , for instance , and the Frank Dobsons doing extremely well . |