Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] did [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Today undoubtedly a marriage involves fewer regulations regarding property between spouses than it did in the eighteenth century .
3 You 'll go wild , like you did in the third year with Sharon Latimer .
4 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 .
5 ‘ 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 If we had played for the whole 90 minutes as we did for the first hour we would have beaten Rangers . ’
9 ‘ 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 .
10 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 ?
11 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 .
12 ENGLAND suffered the same fate in the second Test with Pakistan in Lahore as they did in the first , losing heavily .
13 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 ) .
14 But again they picked a team of boys , as they did in the last two World Cups .
15 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 .
16 The purpose of the vast megalithic constructions , for example , remains almost as mysterious now as it did in the nineteenth century .
17 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 .
18 The sound of the forge echoes around the village now as it did in the 19th century .
19 Yes that would include integrated adequately funded trans public transport system as it did in the last .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 He did not benefit much , scoring 23 before he snicked Snell 's out-swinger , as he did in the first innings , to be caught by the keeper .
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