Example sentences of "[adv] did on the " in BNC.
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1 | The pupils were too depressed to bother sneaking into each other 's rooms for a chat as they usually did on the first night back at school . |
2 | He felt as he always did on the moor , and especially on this spot and on Big Allen , peaceful , without care , without self almost , at one with nature and the past , and as if nothing that happened down there could hurt or vex him any more . |
3 | Gerald was talking very fast and fluently , as he always did on the subject of money , but Charles reckoned he had got the gist . |
4 | He was gazing into his make-up mirror , playing the same game that he always did on the monitor screens in television studios — in other words , deciding which was his best profile . |
5 | If the ruse did n't work the first time , it invariably did on the second occasion . |