Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] did the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I did the lights for Hamlet at school , I never understood the play , thinking at the time that it was much ado about very little . |
| 2 | I had a be better night last night than I did the night before . |
| 3 | ‘ So I did the first album , ‘ Never Look Back ’ , and it did really well . |
| 4 | More than she did the other army wives . |
| 5 | But for the framework , she no more feared nor doubted it than she did the position of the stars in the sky . |
| 6 | Samuel Bamford , the son of a Lancashire weaver , recalled : My poor aunt Elizabeth no more doubted these things , than she did the truth of every word betwixt the two backs of her Bible . |
| 7 | Notice in particular that we set out the Keynesian theory more generally than we did the classical theory where we assumed no government and no foreign trade . |
| 8 | John accused me of wimpish behaviour , so we did the tourist bit around the pits . |
| 9 | Everyone knew what they had to do , so we did the backing tracks live , without having to worry about them too much , so the whole thing 's got a very natural feel … |
| 10 | They shelled out £2.5bn on food , fags and booze last year — 32% more than they did the year before . |
| 11 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
| 12 | Germans were billeted here , but they seem to have treated the place with considerably more decency than they did the people . ’ |
| 13 | And if anything , they regard the coming victory of the United Nations with more apprehension at the moment than they did the possibility of a German victory two or three years ago : the reason being that , in achieving decisive victory , the United Nations will leave Europe with no nation sufficiently strong to shield Turkey against possible Russian demands in the post-war period . |
| 14 | Again , since the adoption of the 1.68 ball , European golfers have , perforce , worked the ball much more than they did the 1.62 . |
| 15 | and he treated his horse well I mean a lot of these horseman , good horseman treated the horse better than they did the wife ! |
| 16 | Then they changed the rules , so they did the program again . |
| 17 | Then they changed the rules again , so they did the program again . |
| 18 | Through the late Seventies , black America was noted for cultural solidarity of impressive dimensions a shared drive for rights and representation which powered art and music no less than it did the Civil Rights movement . |
| 19 | The loss of the holy day holidays might have annoyed the local inhabitants more than it did the off-comers . |
| 20 | ‘ It would bore the rest of the company even more than it did the first time . ’ |
| 21 | It turned out to be erm used more fully as a family centre , where families would come and spend half a day , than it did the casual pop-in arts centre , which the old arts laboratories or the more conventional arts centre perhaps were directed towards . |
| 22 | He loved Israel more than he did the Israelis . |
| 23 | It was an old one — one of Groucho 's actually — but he smiled and relaxed a bit , so it did the job . |
| 24 | No one had a drink before the food arrived , but once it did the wine flowed freely : the best lambrusco , the best fortana and finally the moscato , a sweet , white , generally fizzy wine made with selected muscatel grapes . |
| 25 | I do n't know if I did the right thing , either . |
| 26 | ‘ He said I could have discount if I did the business . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm not runnin' away like I did the last time . ’ |
| 28 | Erm most of the writing letters and things are follow-ups so I need to do those myself cos I did the originals . |
| 29 | Chesarynth booted in the program , making her own little file with an octopus of dark hollow symbols : a worm that would eat up any trace of her prying , provided she did the whole thing quickly enough that no-one noticed while she was in . |
| 30 | As for the wining and dining don , you wo n't find her , she does n't exist , and if she did the men would n't have her . |