Example sentences of "[adv] did in the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It had also occurred to him that if he wrote that report it would be the last thing he ever did in the Army . |
2 | I had always considered him , and still did in the absence of any other evidence , to be a sincere person , one who would do anything to fulfil his promises . |
3 | It is as if , out of nowhere , his voice had spoken in the room , as it once did in the lane . |
4 | As she heard him come back she refrained from looking out of her window , nor did she go down to the corridor outside his room when , a little later , she heard him groaning as he always did in the grip of a nightmare . |
5 | They would be going off in the boat together because that is what they always did in the mornings , to return in half an hour . |
6 | As Fidelma got Agatha into bed , they looked at each other with honesty as they always did in the end . |
7 | If I had n't taken that opportunity I 'm sure I would never have done the things I later did in the refinery business . |
8 | The book was an abstract of a work which had not appeared , and which never did in the form envisaged ; this meant that it had no references or bibliography , and that in it Darwin wore his immense learning lightly . |
9 | I used to wrestle with my conscience as to whether I should ask Francis Bacon , but I never did in the end . |
10 | When he slept there , as he occasionally did in the classroom on the ground floor known for some mysterious reason as the ‘ Remove ’ , he could hear the trains run past the end of the garden and to him it was the most romantic sound in the world . |