Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] did [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was given such a very early start in the game and looking back now I think of it as an even more remarkable achievement than I did at the time , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 2 | But with all the equipment at GCHQ the Government must have known a lot more than I did about the horrors . |
| 3 | I definitely , I do n't really think I got more than I did in the end of year , last year one , I think I got forty percent in that |
| 4 | Then I took a year off , and she kept going on and on at me that it 's time to go back to college , so I did in the end . |
| 5 | I have seen photographs of her ( looking it must be admitted not much younger than she did at the time in which this story is set ) , across which she has signed herself ‘ Mademoiselle ’ , and sometimes ‘ Miss ’ . |
| 6 | She done the performance on her own better than she did at the erm |
| 7 | What I liked about her was that she charged less in the 6ds than she did in the 1/3s : she had a sliding scale . |
| 8 | And she knew herself to look better , clad in what passed for finery these days , than she did in the house where with so much work to do she had not a moment to spare for her appearance . |
| 9 | She says she feel better now than she did before the accident . |
| 10 | ‘ Better than you did for the entire evening . ’ |
| 11 | Quite probably you will have discovered that you put much more emphasis than we did on the immediate problem of trying to discover whether it was Chrissie or Fred who was telling the truth . |
| 12 | By the very nature of our work , we Met girls knew many more of the air crews than we did of the ground staff . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Birds roosting and foraging near airports now collide with jumbo jets seven times more often than they did with the early turbo jets . |
| 16 | The public would no more identify with the new councils than they did with the present ones or did with the old councils , Prof Midwinter stressed . |
| 17 | As had occurred before , and was to occur again , pacifist agitators had more impact on the reorganization of the party system than they did on the issues of war and peace that they were trying to affect . |
| 18 | There is less time to think as hazards loom quicker than they did on the old boats , and accurate navigation becomes ever more critical . |
| 19 | In retrospect , many of those stories now seem considerably less fanciful than they did at the time . |
| 20 | This last element , perhaps more than any other , is crucial for understanding why Marx and Engels attached so much more importance to the work of Morgan than they did to the work of the other evolutionist anthropologists whom they read . |
| 21 | The TV detection team did n't fall for it , any more than they did for the man who claimed his set was never used . |
| 22 | Around 65% of people with meters found they were paying the same as or less than they did under the old system . |
| 23 | What is more , when inflation is taken into account , the present middle-income earners have relatively less disposable income under the present higher tax rate of 60% than they did under the old regime of tax charged at the highest rate of 83% such is the falling-behind effect of tax allowances granted in recent years . |
| 24 | HOUSEHOLDERS in the lowest council tax bands in Fife and Borders regions will pay less than they did under the poll tax , but those in higher bands will find themselves worse off . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The group least represented in proportion to its population , Sinhalese Buddhists , accounted for an even smaller proportion of sergeants than they did of the force as a whole . |
| 27 | If the price of gold continues to rise over the coming months , bankers will have even more reason to sell than they did in the past . |
| 28 | In the study , about one-quarter of the children performed markedly less well in the class test than they did in the interview . |
| 29 | The main reason for many Opposition Members feeling more warmly towards the European Community now than they did in the past is the record of the Community in the past few years and the contrast between what has happened elsewhere in the Community and what we have seen take place in Britain . |
| 30 | Chivers , providing dynamic leadership as Derry get ready for their most important match since last year 's Ulster decider , is adamant that the side can play much , much better than they did in the McKenna climax . |