Example sentences of "[pers pn] did from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told her , sir , coming as I did from the market where the news was fresh and thinking … ’ |
| 2 | She looked as good from the back as she did from the front and Kenneth 's Exocet missile eyes homed in on her pink , uniformed rump and stayed there . |
| 3 | ‘ She wo n't get away from me like she did from the ‘ palookas ’ who tried to sit on her shoulder in the world championships . ’ |
| 4 | The most radical of these new mayors , like Bassam Shak'a of Nablus and Karim Khalaf of Ramallah , found themselves facing almost as much difficulty from Jordan and the PLO leadership as they did from the Israeli authorities . |
| 5 | The Maxteds , for some reason I could never fathom , were ashamed of earning the money they did from the movies . |
| 6 | My only reservation is that the public who use the stand will not be able to see the racing in the same manner as they did from the old open top affairs . |
| 7 | Some of them he did from the Grünewald in Colmar . |
| 8 | It maddened Adam , his misuse of this word , which could n't of course be applied to guiding anyone on land , coming as it did from the Latin navigare and thence from navis , feminine , a ship , and agere , to drive or guide . |
| 9 | It seems even bigger than it did from the ground , but I bridge and reach up , grasping huge , rough jugs on which even I can feel strong . |
| 10 | The motion in favour of nuclear power , coming as it did from the Scottish NUM , represents a significant breakthrough in trades union thinking on energy issues . |