Example sentences of "[pers pn] do in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And take another tip from me : have your locked-room mystery as a side-issue to your main story as I did in The Perfect Murder , my first Ghote book .
2 ‘ Well , ’ I replied nervously , ‘ This is some of the stuff I did in the early days , it 's all medical and rather boring .
3 I wish to heavens I was still allowed to use the birch and belt as I did in the good old days !
4 ‘ My coach , Malcolm Arnold , told me that you do n't win gold medals performing like I did in the first round .
5 But remember I 'm a writer , and there 's a lot of difference between what I did in the '70s and what so many of them did . ’
6 'E said ter me , ‘ What 'ave yer done in the past year ? ’ an' I said , ‘ Nuffink . ’
7 ‘ Although you should n't need to hear it , and you should never have believed what you did in the first place …
8 The underground happened everywhere simultaneously : it was simply what you did in the H-bomb world if you were , by nature , creative and concerned for humanity as a whole …
9 You 'll go wild , like you did in the third year with Sharon Latimer .
10 ’ You have very similar motives in someone as charismatic as David as you do in the mute lad I played in Trapped In Silence .
11 Monique Javer , the American-born former US Collegiate Champion who wears the GB vest with such pride and always plays her best for her country as she did in the European Cup in 1991 , will be the undisputed British No. 1 woman player by the end of the year .
12 Henry was almost certainly the victim of an ayah who , in the interests of peace and quiet , fed the child opium ; in any case , the mother had no cause to blame herself , as she did in the following verses :
13 ‘ I have family and friends who assume that Rangers will beat FC Brugge with a couple of goals to spare , but in order to do that we will need to play throughout this week 's game as we did in the second half over there , ’ he added .
14 So the first two or three hundred we did in the first year have now been resold twice .
15 We have maintained a high level of marketing activity in the traditional areas of our work with the result that we brought in a greater value of tender enquiries in 1992 than we did in the previous year , and this we achieved against the backcloth of a continually reducing market .
16 I believe that we shall have greater continuity of orders throughout the 1990s than we did in the 1980s , due to the maturing nature of offshore oil and gas work , including refurbishment , sub-sea systems and satellite developments .
17 We try as far as possible to relate the work we do in the Technical Department to what goes on in industry and commerce .
18 Erm , but I 'll give you my home number to see what else we do in the other things , phone my office , please .
19 Everything we do in the Christian life is easier than prayer . ’
20 What are they to do in the changed circumstances ?
21 In total , mergers did not occur on quite the same scale as they did in the 1920s — which was equivalent to something like one-third of all firms in manufacturing going out of existence — but they caused the loss of an equivalent of a quarter of all firms .
22 But there was no er pointing this out and pointing that out , that 's wrong , as he did As they did in the pre-nationalization days .
23 ENGLAND suffered the same fate in the second Test with Pakistan in Lahore as they did in the first , losing heavily .
24 They should never have shifted their line-out men around the way that they did in the first 40 minutes .
25 They did in the first century , and they do still when the Christians come out of their ghettos and chatter the good news in the streets .
26 So if the revenue had refused in the exercise of their discretion to make the repayment they did in the present case I am of opinion that in the absence of any other remedy it would have been open to Woolwich to claim repayment in proceedings for judicial review , and there would appear to be no reason why such proceedings would not have been successful .
27 They no longer dress like men as they did in the Mughal court ; instead they deck themselves in jewellery and cosmetics and wear saris .
28 However , with Britain deep in recession and more than three million unemployed , some people doubt if the firemen can carry the weight of public sympathy as they did in the 1970s .
29 Indeed , Opposition Members did nothing to clear up the uncertainties about the huge expenditure on which they would have to embark to renationalise these industries before messing them up again as they did in the 1970s when they were under national control .
30 And an ideal little workshop for anybody doing work as they did in the early days , most of the components of a motor car had to made .
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