Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] they do [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chivers , providing dynamic leadership as Derry get ready for their most important match since last year 's Ulster decider , is adamant that the side can play much , much better than they did in the McKenna climax . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In addition there is a mass of evidence that a very high proportion of people in their sixties and seventies are physically capable of remaining longer than they do in the formal labour market . |
| 4 | Starting with Oracle Financials , it means to tune its hardware , architecture and operating system to optimise software performance just like they did in the ‘ good ole days ’ but without threatening the customer with a proprietary hammerlock . |
| 5 | They are choosing to ignore it , just as they did with the poll tax . |
| 6 | Shafts of sunlight probe down into secret nooks and woodland hollows , just as they did in the wintry days to frustrate the birds in their efforts to conceal nests . |
| 7 | As fossil fuels become more difficult to recover from the earth 's crust , and supplies diminish , prices will shoot sky high , just as they did in the oil crisis of 1973 . |
| 8 | That was the year the city 's deputy was found beaten to death , in a village near Riba ; the landlords had paid a gang to kill him , just as they did in the old days , before Davide left for America . |
| 9 | ‘ It is here , in Ralarth , that the thing begins — here that the main characters come from , just as they did in the book . |
| 10 | The laws of science will hold at them , just as they do at the North and South Poles on the earth . |
| 11 | Coelenterates will resort to territorial squabbles in the aquarium just as they do in the wild . |
| 12 | The Commission strongly affirms the value of silent as well as vocal participation , and it believes that worshippers need to be taught how to listen to music no less attentively than they do to the reading of Scripture , or to preaching , or to the recitation of prayers . |
| 13 | Birds roosting and foraging near airports now collide with jumbo jets seven times more often than they did with the early turbo jets . |
| 14 | The main reason for many Opposition Members feeling more warmly towards the European Community now than they did in the past is the record of the Community in the past few years and the contrast between what has happened elsewhere in the Community and what we have seen take place in Britain . |
| 15 | Children cost twice as much to education there than they did in the outer London Boroughs , or indeed out in the styx as we are here in Oxfordshire . |
| 16 | There is less time to think as hazards loom quicker than they did on the old boats , and accurate navigation becomes ever more critical . |
| 17 | They can go there as they did with the industrial conferences , but we have to make this careful balance between parts of our membership . |
| 18 | Indeed , Opposition Members did nothing to clear up the uncertainties about the huge expenditure on which they would have to embark to renationalise these industries before messing them up again as they did in the 1970s when they were under national control . |
| 19 | With their bizarre appearance and seemingly mysterious but treacherous way of life , the dodders have certainly latched on to human imagination as successfully as they do to the innumerable species of plants they parasitise , spawning fables , myths and fascinating names such as love vine , immortal vine , vine in the sky , beggar vine , strangleweed , devil 's gut , scald and so on . |
| 20 | I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby . |