Example sentences of "did at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Campaign now has more paid-up members than it did at the height of the 1970s real ale revival . |
| 2 | He feels that , for such an important event , countries should have a day 's rest between their games , as they did at the 1986 World Cup in London , where England lost in the final to Australia . |
| 3 | Britain benefited from such a programme when they finished third at the Los Angeles Olympics and England did at the 1986 World Cup . |
| 4 | He feels that , for such an important event , countries should have a day 's rest between their games , as they did at the 1986 World Cup in London , where England lost in the final to Australia . |
| 5 | Speaking in tongues , as the disciples did at the original Pentecost , is said to be commonplace . |
| 6 | ‘ Part of his problem was that he was just doing what everybody else did at the time , and it killed him . |
| 7 | In retrospect , many of those stories now seem considerably less fanciful than they did at the time . |
| 8 | I have seen photographs of her ( looking it must be admitted not much younger than she did at the time in which this story is set ) , across which she has signed herself ‘ Mademoiselle ’ , and sometimes ‘ Miss ’ . |
| 9 | As he intended to behave extraordinarily well , she would grow to like and respect him ( he was n't entirely sure she did at the moment ) . |
| 10 | Elinor folded her arms and , shaking her head in the way Henry sometimes did at the motorists who cut him up , she began to pace up and down the red-tiled kitchen . |
| 11 | No old bomber pilot , making a forced landing with no wheels , on a load of unused bombs , could possibly have felt as bad as he did at the moment . |
| 12 | Sometimes , if taking an initiative in an area he deemed crucial , he would take the chair , as he did at the Reflation Committee in 1958 . |
| 13 | He paused as he always did at the foot of the stairs , his left hand holding the lamp , his right hand resting on the banisters . |
| 14 | Intentionally or not he seems to suggest , as Lord Caithness also did at the Committee stage in the House of Commons , that the homosexual literature should pass the test of artistic and literary merit — characteristics which are necessary as a defence against a charge of obscenity under the Obscene Publications Act 1959 . |
| 15 | A few girls were dancing together as they did at the youth club hops and the dancing was of the proper ‘ ballroom variety ’ — waltzes , quicksteps and foxtrots . |
| 16 | Whittingham was invited by the A.O.C. to take over 261 Squadron from him , which he did at the start of May . |
| 17 | The very worst time to take out a bond is when rates are low but then rise dramatically and unexpectedly , as they did at the end of the 1980s . |
| 18 | The very worst time to take out a bond is when rates are low but then rise dramatically and unexpectedly , as they did at the end of the 1980s |
| 19 | You 'll care as little at the climax ( in fact the three climaxes — the tragic one , the Scooby Doo happy one and the moral-at-the-end one ) as you did at the inception . |
| 20 | The first part I ever did at the Old Vic was Ophelia , in 1957 . |
| 21 | BAKER SAYS that although he 's done all sorts of jobs since — mostly on telly — he 's never ‘ had a time ’ like he did at the NME . |
| 22 | The question is : In saying ‘ I meant … ’ , when one has been misunderstood , is one saying something about something one did at the time of saying , ‘ Come here ’ or ‘ Go to the bank ’ ? |
| 23 | But if , in saying ‘ I meant … ’ , one is not saying something about something one did at the time of saying , ‘ Come here ’ or ‘ Go to the bank ’ , what is one saying ? |
| 24 | Anyone possessing the gall to launch three blows into orbit and over the fence in the opening 20 minutes of the day , as Hooper did at The Oval last August when West Indies were following on , is no mere mortal . |
| 25 | ‘ I was given such a very early start in the game and looking back now I think of it as an even more remarkable achievement than I did at the time , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 26 | At L.A. County , Rusty built the profile of the museum through big exhibitions … just as Carter did at the National Gallery ’ . |
| 27 | When the police ordered him to end it , he complied at once , his half-dozen supporters singing the National Anthem as they invariably did at the conclusion of their gatherings . |
| 28 | He ‘ produced his bell and rang it , stating that that was what he did at the time ’ , but the magistrate told him ‘ that he must not think that everyone had to scamper out of the way upon hearing the sound of his bell ’ . |
| 29 | The pages of history will record and rehearse them far and wide , and every Englishman , whether in his island home or a wanderer on some foreign shore , will elate with admiration what George Foxlett Cutter did at the siege of Krishnapur ! " |
| 30 | It seemed that our quantum mechanics had to be thorough going , even if we could perceive , as we did at the end of Chapter 4 , circumstances in which classical calculations would provide an acceptable approximation . |