Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] do [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
2 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
3 | Let it be supposed that according to the usual methods of borrowing and funding , the Public Debts , during the present war , should encrease to no greater degree than they did in the last war ; which was about 30 millions : And let it be supposed , according to past experience , that in ten or twelve years after a peace ; we should be plunged into a fresh war ; which might encrease the debts of the nation 30 millions more , and that afterwards we should have another breathing time of ten or twelve years , and that according to custom a third war should ensue , no less expensive than each of the former two ; these three wars will swell the national debts to the amount of 170 millions , and that in little more than fifty years . |
4 | They should never have shifted their line-out men around the way that they did in the first 40 minutes . |
5 | What these Discourses show is that ‘ science ’ still meant something wider than it does in the twentieth century ; what the lecturers were encouraging was realistic assessment and sound judgement . |
6 | Today undoubtedly a marriage involves fewer regulations regarding property between spouses than it did in the eighteenth century . |
7 | You 'll go wild , like you did in the third year with Sharon Latimer . |
8 | Most of the southern states score particularly badly on economic discrimination , but only a minority do so on the third and none do on the first . |
9 | The feeling was that Richards should have declared before he did as the last hour 's batting produced few runs , but when England set about playing out time , Larkins , having gone first ball in the first innings , lasted only one more this time . |
10 | ‘ It 's very important for me to have the same people around me as I did on the first album … it 's a community thing , it means I can keep the same vibe as I had before , ’ he says . |
11 | Perhaps the best way to write this kind of story ( or even the equivalent of the detective novel at short story length ) is to do as I did with the first crime short story I ever wrote . |
12 | Once the report is ready for distribution I hope Planning and Co-ordination will be able to give us some assistance as you did with the first plan . |
13 | If we had played for the whole 90 minutes as we did for the first hour we would have beaten Rangers . ’ |
14 | ‘ I have family and friends who assume that Rangers will beat FC Brugge with a couple of goals to spare , but in order to do that we will need to play throughout this week 's game as we did in the second half over there , ’ he added . |
15 | to have a course , but if the crew on that particular ship mutinies , as they did during the last er Shadow Cabinet , then you 're in trouble , are n't you ? |
16 | The consequence of this ‘ friendly and useful ’ advice was that the parts healed in half the time after the second operation as they did after the first . |
17 | ENGLAND suffered the same fate in the second Test with Pakistan in Lahore as they did in the first , losing heavily . |
18 | Only if the burden becomes insupportable — or increases too abruptly — do electors seriously complain ( as they did in the last days of the 1964 and 1974 Labour governments ) . |
19 | But again they picked a team of boys , as they did in the last two World Cups . |
20 | Britain 's Overseas Development Administration has its Manual of Environmental Appraisal which will presumably apply as much to East Europe as it does to the Third World . |
21 | Yet even on this issue we must be cautious : marriage was an irrevocable step ; though death almost as often and as rapidly parted married couples in the twelfth century as it does in the twentieth , a prince might well take careful thought before he threw the dice , just as , even then , a prudent man might spend many years looking for the woman of his choice . |
22 | Debt earns interest just as easily in the West as it does in the Third World . |
23 | As I understand it the Cleveland structure plan proposes the same number of dwellings for erm its next period which happens to be fourteen years , as it did for the last fourteen of the of the previous structure plan , fifteen thousand seven hundred . |
24 | The purpose of the vast megalithic constructions , for example , remains almost as mysterious now as it did in the nineteenth century . |
25 | Its main power over the economy lies in its control of the central bank , but Mr Yeltsin has made the bank promise that it will issue only a quarter as much credit in the second three months of the year as it did in the first . |
26 | The sound of the forge echoes around the village now as it did in the 19th century . |
27 | Yes that would include integrated adequately funded trans public transport system as it did in the last . |
28 | Well , he now has his stepmother to thank for the beautiful house that has been restored to look as it did in the 18th century . |
29 | Tillyard engages with the mid-twentieth century as he does with the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . |
30 | Indeed of Hughes , now scoring the simple as well as the specatucal — as he did in the 60th minuted to secure victory — Fergsuon said : ‘ That was his fourth goal in successive games . |