Example sentences of "[conj] did [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know of one person who failed completely the first time round , & did very well the second ; and Lord Rothschild mentions an eminent scientist , who got one ‘ C ’ the first time & 7 ( yes , seven ) A's the second , but he was a genius — or a freak . |
| 2 | The plain fact is that some elements of the social charter would run the risk — indeed , would make it a real possibility — of this country returning to some of the trade union practices that did so much damage during the 1970s . |
| 3 | Nazism was the result not of inflation , but of the counter-inflationary measures that did so much damage . |
| 4 | Among the flowers that did really well in last year 's hot summer were alyssum , geraniums and petunias . |
| 5 | The approach of the police to the investigation of rape cases has been subject to much criticism — and then to considerable improvement — and it seems quite possible that these improvements , together with the advent of rape-crisis centres and victim-support facilities , have led more women to report rapes than did so formerly . |
| 6 | He could so easily have hurt himself or irreparably damaged the glider but , in fact , he was very lucky and did surprisingly little damage . |
| 7 | He took two wickets in each innings and did well enough to merit further matches . |
| 8 | I enjoyed the job and did pretty well . |
| 9 | Eventually I joined a real estate company in New Jersey and did rather well . |
| 10 | The Hudson 's Bay Company went on trading at its posts on the shore of the Bay , and did rather well for its shareholders , but French fur traders moved out beyond the Great Lakes and by the 1740s La Verendrye had led them to places well west of the Bay . |
| 11 | In February 1868 Lewis came first in the London examination for entry to the Army Medical School in Netley , and did equally well in the course . |
| 12 | Well well I can say it now really four have taken the R S A one exam , and and did very well though very nervous but er er and but they sat there and they did it which was superb I mean we were as nervous as they were sitting in here . |
| 13 | Having blown up his good engine in practice , Mark was forced to use his second motor in the race , and did very well to get as good a finish as he did . |
| 14 | Caro had spent the preceding day cleaning and tidying , but her mother had come determined to disapprove and did so easily . |
| 15 | Overall television fulfilled its public service role of informing the electorate , and did so particularly well as the election drew closer ; while the press fulfilled its self-assigned role as pamphleteers within a libertarian system , and did so with increasing effect as the election drew closer . |
| 16 | The independence which they had won was qualified , and in the long run the king lost little by this switch : he could still tax the clergy — and did so frequently — and he could convoke them when it would have been impolitic to convene the laity in parliament . |
| 17 | Lowe was quick to learn the various practices of the law profession , and decided upon conveyancing — transferring property from one person to another by purchase , lease or deed — as that branch of the law where his deafness was less of a handicap , and did so well that in the Michaelmas Term of 1829 , he took the prescribed oaths publicly in the Temple Hall and emerged as a Barrister of the Middle Temple — a most unprecedented event which created a sensation in the profession . |
| 18 | Never again , one suspects , will anyone witness the arrival of such revolutionary instruments — instruments which , within the space of a decade , wrought such changes in the way music was played , and did so increasingly thereafter . |
| 19 | Rozanov spent the whole performance scribbling in a notebook , and did so again at the evening performance . |
| 20 | I climbed it long before I knew anything of eponymous lists , and did so again recently . |
| 21 | Home again , I wasted hours trying to make sense of things , and did so eventually . |
| 22 | But physical attraction could jump that gap like an electric spark and did so effortlessly . |
| 23 | Darwin erm was prevailed upon to use it and did so occasionally , but rather reluctantly , and rightly so . |
| 24 | ‘ I was perfectly within my rights to speak to Wimbledon and did so out of courtesy . |
| 25 | In one account of the visit , it is said that the Emperor was loathe to allow the doctor to leave China and did so only after Garvine appealed to him on the grounds that he wished to return to Scotland and attend to his aged and ailing father . |
| 26 | On behalf of the Crown it was contended that the law did not recognise any such general principle as was involved in the primary submission for Woolwich , that the facts of the case did not meet the established principles governing the restitution of sums paid under duress , and that the revenue were never under any obligation to make any repayment and did so only as a matter of grace . |
| 27 | He was slow to use even the basic idea of evolution in his paleontological work , and did so only in the mid 1860s after reading the work of the German evolutionist Ernst Haeckel . |
| 28 | The British delegation in particular were reluctant to agree to the proposal , and did so only after consultations with officials . |
| 29 | I am grateful that when the trouble started Penguin kept the book in print , and did so very courageously . |
| 30 | She did not want to see him , and did so as little as possible . |