Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] did [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to liability management , banks paid interest on comparatively few deposit liabilities and where they did such rates were not always closely related to market rates . |
| 2 | Theo took a shorter journey - to Wormwood Scrubs , where he did four months ' hard labour . |
| 3 | In fact , there , that that , that 's that printing of s , that shape of s , followed by a t , was still used by some printers right up until the twentieth century , because it 's actually , you know that when when prints , print was put together by hand , by picking up each letter erm , and as assembling it separately , there was actually always a stop letter , a stop erm , I ca n't remember what it 's called , although I did some printing years ago , erm , lump a die thing with s t already printed together , because because s t is used so much in combination , the erm , printer did n't always have to set up s followed by a t , but had a rack of s t's already prepared and they were often , virtually joined together in this way , and erm , I got , I got an edition of I think it 's the novels of Jane Austen printed in the nineteen twenties which still use that shape of s t but used as the small s for any other forms . |
| 4 | I do n't think any other caddie in the history of the British Open has worked harder than I did that week . |
| 5 | So how is it that I , a pensioner earning half that sum , will pay more tax should he win the election than I did last year ? |
| 6 | Better tonight than I did last night . |
| 7 | ‘ In which case it 's unlikely I would have seen any more than I did this afternoon in your garden . ’ |
| 8 | Two members of the band posed with a laughing Mr Brooke , who said : ‘ I know them considerably better than I did 15 minutes ago , ’ — but he declined to offer a rendition of any of their songs . |
| 9 | It was n't , so I did another U-turn and cut back into Lee Metford Road . |
| 10 | Dorothy had ‘ not often felt more regret ’ than she did that day . |
| 11 | Because er , to produce more output you have to have a bigger stock , and therefore the price goes up , so you produce more , decreasing not quite so much , and keep a greater percentage than you did last year , so that for cows , as the price goes up you 've got to counteract it again , cows this year , and try to sort of , keep my , get my herd bigger and bigger , and profitable . |
| 12 | Latest figures show that TODAY now sells 101,347 more copies than we did this time last year . |
| 13 | SUPERMARKET giant Tesco yesterday claimed that the slump is forcing us to spend £3 a week less on food than we did last year . |
| 14 | In Christian Aid Week 1985 we raised £2500 more than we did last year . |
| 15 | No no allowing for inflations , no underlying trends under the labour proposals people in Cambridge will be paying less hard cash now than they did eight years ago . |
| 16 | Figure 6.5 shows movements in the average age at first marriage ; women are marrying , on average , some three years younger than they did forty years ago . |
| 17 | Consumers may not have any more cash in their pockets than they did 48 hours ago , but it is their willingness to take on extra debt that drives demand for housing , cars , and other big items of spending . |
| 18 | Do professional requirements cover more or less of the curriculum in any given field than they did ten years ago ? |
| 19 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
| 20 | They look a lot better than they did last year ! |
| 21 | Do you believe that women feel more empowered or less empowered now than they did last year ? |
| 22 | The computer made slightly fewer incorrect diagnoses than its human rivals , although it did less well in making firm diagnoses . |
| 23 | The starting point is a question which Adam Smith , John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman would be hard pushed to answer : why does it take longer for a carpenter or bricklayeer to earn the price of a pound of meat or a housebrick than it did five centuries ago ? |
| 24 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 25 | The 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago . |
| 26 | Is n't that window-cleaner coming more often than he did last year ? |
| 27 | The Fellow seemed to run his race , as he beat Docklands Express further than he did last year . ’ |
| 28 | I wo n't go into them today if I did possible savings . |
| 29 | Tomorrow I was going to my gran 's house like I did most Sundays . |
| 30 | Cos I wo n't have any homework cos I did that homework last night . |