Example sentences of "did about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I caused a lot of hurt to my husband and family when I left them to live with her , but my partner , Kate , felt as strongly about me as I did about her and I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 2 | She had not the least interest in the fortunes of Italy , did not care that once more liberty and unity were the watchwords , and it astonished her that Mrs Browning could seem as anxious about war as she did about her sister 's health . |
| 3 | This was true of what he did about both high policy and low politics . |
| 4 | Did she know as much about cigars as she did about sweets ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But I never felt remorse about them the same way I did about him . |
| 6 | Her point in life was to solve Jack Butler 's problems ; when they persisted , she felt worse than he did about it . |
| 7 | I wondered if he felt as strongly about me as I did about him . |
| 8 | His troubles in 1971 , however , were not just the March and his propensity for accidents : the fact was that he was now an experienced F3 driver , known to be quick , but by the nature of the formula was racing against a lot of people who were just beginners and knew far less than he did about the sport . |
| 9 | He never had much regard for the damage drinking could cause him , yet oddly enough he did about others . |
| 10 | I had one friend from another house who felt the same way as I did about the school and the whole process we were being put through . |
| 11 | Some of the most gratifying comments referred to Nigel — such as , ‘ How you achieved that much wished objective said as much about your late husband as it did about you . |
| 12 | But with all the equipment at GCHQ the Government must have known a lot more than I did about the horrors . |
| 13 | What they suggest is that the roots of these activities lay deep in popular or folk culture but that ultimately the new urban manifestation of these activities revealed more about the values of the business classes than they did about the masses themselves . |
| 14 | To the Marxist historian Michael Chanan the halls were merely ‘ tools of commercial exploitation ’ but a more balanced view would rely on an appreciation of the way in which ‘ live ’ variety revealed as much about showmen as it did about ‘ humanity at large ’ . |
| 15 | And my employers Fitch ( Groupe Bull , Southern Electricity ) lost more sleep over whether the colours in our new letterhead would allow it to make any sense coming off a client 's monochrome fax machine than they ever did about the evocation of caring values . |
| 16 | By the time my father could sit down with me in a pub , slightly drunk , tell me and my friends about Real Life , crack a joke about a Pakistani that silenced a whole table once , and talk about the farm labourer 's — his grandfather 's — journey up from Eye in Suffolk working on the building of the Great North Western Railway to Rawtenstall on the Lancashire-Yorkshire border , I was doing history at Sussex , and knew more than he did about the date and timing of journeys like that . |
| 17 | She did not know how she knew what she did about people . |
| 18 | ‘ Or desperate , ’ suggested Bob , who knew rather more than Comfort did about the straits to which many Parisians had been reduced by the war . |
| 19 | And somebody was gon na go and review the relevance to this organization , so that we could determine what we did about it . |
| 20 | Lydia felt strongly that the author of the universe probably thought much as she did about sexual matters . |
| 21 | She knew only marginally more about him than she did about Bella . |
| 22 | The Ambassador gave a diagonal nod of the head , as if it were slightly impertinent to know more than he did about local matters . |
| 23 | And , again no doubt rightly , we need no more have illusions about the motives of those leading the coalition than we did about Stalin , Churchill or Roosevelt — the second world war analogy . |
| 24 | The information had arrived by the first post that morning , and Jared Tunstall already knew more about Neil Cochrane than Neil Cochrane did about him . |
| 25 | Do we not know more than we ever did about crowds , power , group behaviour , motivation , national and religious hysteria and so forth ? |
| 26 | The hon. Gentleman may like to ask some of his right hon. and hon. Friends what they did about it . |
| 27 | Er did n't take me too long to do that but certainly did about my my views on advertising . |
| 28 | It was n't difficult for Rachel to understand what her sister had seen in this man , and just for a moment she found herself reluctantly acknowledging the fact that if she did n't know what she did about him she too would find him very attractive . |
| 29 | But when you said what you did about the night we 'd spent together … ’ |
| 30 | And then like you did about the subject here er me asking questions on the subject you want to do . |