Example sentences of "[subord] he did [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His troubles in 1971 , however , were not just the March and his propensity for accidents : the fact was that he was now an experienced F3 driver , known to be quick , but by the nature of the formula was racing against a lot of people who were just beginners and knew far less than he did about the sport . |
| 2 | By the time my father could sit down with me in a pub , slightly drunk , tell me and my friends about Real Life , crack a joke about a Pakistani that silenced a whole table once , and talk about the farm labourer 's — his grandfather 's — journey up from Eye in Suffolk working on the building of the Great North Western Railway to Rawtenstall on the Lancashire-Yorkshire border , I was doing history at Sussex , and knew more than he did about the date and timing of journeys like that . |
| 3 | She loved this man and she knew more than he did at the moment . |
| 4 | He did not do himself justice in 1991 , never getting his timing right in his early-season preparations any more than he did on the golf course . |
| 5 | It was clear that Vic felt at home here ; more at ease than he did in the shed . |
| 6 | He began to feel more comfortable after 24 hours ' treatment with antibiotics and also admitted that he found it easier to pass urine in the privacy of the toilet than he did in the ward . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mr Salmond undoubtedly has a point in arguing , as he did over the weekend , that any demonstrable gain which may ultimately emerge from the deal with Mr Lang was achieved without serious risk of saving the Government from a Commons defeat . |
| 9 | One thing that went seriously wrong is that we did n't hear more of Neil Kinnock speaking as he did amid the wreckage of his political hopes and personal career . |
| 10 | This is not therefore the work of an out-and-out Comtean positivist , but of a man who had some sensitivity to the nuances of primitive worldviews , as he did for the problems of children and of his patients . |
| 11 | He did not feel so hostile to them as he did to the ravens , and merely ignored them , overflying them if they came too close but not behaving more aggressively than that . |
| 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 | On giving up as a player , Ken was a natural choice for chairman and , as he did at the end of every subsequent season , promised sweeping changes and League football by 1992 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He has a great vision of the game , and can play stunning rugby — just as he did in the test against New Zealand when some of his tactical options were simply excellent . |
| 16 | It may be that none of these incidents , taken by itself , would be very significant , but the cumulative effect of them supports the view that the plaintiff and her husband subordinated their own interests to the wishes of the deceased … the plaintiff 's acts went well beyond what was called for by natural love and affection for someone to whom she had no blood relationship , and both she and her husband made it very clear in their evidence that there was no great love and affection between her husband and the deceased , and that he was only willing to pay for meals that the plaintiff provided for the deceased and to work as he did in the garden of the cottage because of the expectation that the deceased 's estate would in due course pass to the plaintiff . |
| 17 | He no longer confides in he , as he did in the letter at the beginning , but distances himself from her . |