Example sentences of "[adv] as it did " in BNC.
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| 31 | To prepare for this he had moved many of his photographs , pictures , books and other possessions from London so that the house , though not looking exactly as it did when he was there , became a showplace bursting with Shaviana . |
| 32 | The rope hung behind , exactly as it did in the picture . |
| 33 | As soon as it did , the air rushed out of the compartment , and the flight of steps automatically extended out beyond the craft . |
| 34 | It does not necessarily work as quickly as it did in Sylvia 's case — but it always succeeds , provided the patient does his or her homework regularly and conscientiously . |
| 35 | An old potter regretted that machinery did not transform his trade as early as it did that of cotton . |
| 36 | But does it live self-consciously , or blithely as it did when I was a child ? |
| 37 | It pierced the wizard 's forehead and penetrated to his brain as he stood cursing ; death took him unawares as it did Goliath , and his lifeless body fell backwards on to the sand . |
| 38 | Now , at the age of fifty-odd , the name was pathetically incongruous , calling up as it did someone fresh , compact and sparkling , with an air of crisp , but old-world domesticity . |
| 39 | The plane touched down , bounced up again , slewed sideways and skidded along the runway , breaking up as it did so ; the port wing broke off and the rest of the plane turned over on top of it . |
| 40 | The food that India produces does not find its way to the people who need it as efficiently as it did in the Maharashtra drought . |
| 41 | It 's a great feeling when you try something and it works out as it did in Cardiff back in 1982 when we beat Wales 34–18 and ended their 14-year record of home invincibility . |
| 42 | My family were n't wealthy , could n't have afforded to send me away till it was over , could n't have kept it secret , so perhaps it 's just as well it turned out as it did . |
| 43 | Although the landscape did not disappoint me nearly as severely as it did Johnson — subsequent farmers have grown many trees , and in the distance a great house still touches the sky — Monboddo may no longer be considered a classical Scottish fortified house . |
| 44 | Pascal 's insistence that rigorous , self-searching thought is the basis of morality needs as much hammering home now as it did three centuries ago . |
| 45 | The purpose of the vast megalithic constructions , for example , remains almost as mysterious now as it did in the nineteenth century . |
| 46 | The sound of the forge echoes around the village now as it did in the 19th century . |
| 47 | Awareness of Thatcher and Kinnock was spread much more evenly throughout the electorate , and in so far as it did vary it was particularly high amongst those who had recently watched television news or had recently discussed the campaign ( Table 7.7 ) . |
| 48 | By the end of the campaign that was no longer so true : awareness of Thatcher and Kinnock had spread much more evenly through the electorate and in so far as it did vary it was particularly high amongst those who had recently watched television news or discussed the campaign . |
| 49 | It revealed something she would never have associated with the man whose ironic half-smile appeared in tabloid gossip columns almost as often as it did in yachting magazines . |
| 50 | If it does n't mean so much today as it did , it 's because rock is n't as strong as it was , it does n't matter so much anymore . ’ |
| 51 | The principle of interchangeable parts did not catch on in British industry as fast as it did in the American gun industry ; Colt 's revolvers were the great examples of what became known as the American system of manufacture . |
| 52 | Saudi Arabia has stockpiled close to 30m barrels of the stuff during the first quarter of 1989 ; Iran has been busy filling European storage tanks ; Saudi , Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil has been pouring into America almost as fast as it did in December . |
| 53 | On the other hand , neither did the faithful military figure so much here as it did in the political activities of the Smolensk party organization . |
| 54 | The smell of oil clung to her as strongly as it did to the rags in the van . |
| 55 | While the greening of the electorate was rapidly taken aboard and she was impressed by the fact that acid rain could damage international relations as surely as it did stonework and trees , what caught her imagination were the profound implications of what was happening to the chemistry of the deeper atmosphere . |
| 56 | Its introduction into British schools for the deaf , first by the Rev. Thomas Arnold at Northampton in 1868 then by Mr. William Van Praagh at 11 , Fitzroy Square , London in 1872 , rapidly spread , especially after 1880 , until it came to be both detested and feared by leading deaf people everywhere who saw that it could — and indeed as it did — seriously damage the systems of education that had served so well since the growth of deaf education . |
| 57 | Will the outswinger still swing as late as it did last summer ? ’ |
| 58 | Quiss waited for the scullion to draw breath , and looked round the kitchens again as it did so . |
| 59 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |