Example sentences of "did so at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Fairbanks found that when sea level first began to rise as the ice sheets melted , 17,000 years ago , it did so at a rate of about 4mm per year .
2 Eisenhower subsequently did so at a meeting with the Shah in Washington .
3 Clinical investigations produced evidence that 75% of the women questioned who developed cellulite , did so at a time of hormonal change .
4 ‘ I did so at the duchess your mother 's suggestion . ’
5 When Richard duke of Gloucester seized the throne in 1483 he did so at the head of the largest noble affinity of its day .
6 When Richard duke of Gloucester seized the throne in 1483 he did so at the head of the largest noble affinity of its day .
7 When his chest was clear , she put on the pads for the heart monitor , frowning slightly as she did so at the feel of the chest wall under her hands .
8 By this good turn the bishop won the hearts of all , and the people began to listen more readily to his teaching , hoping to obtain heavenly blessings through the ministry of one to whom they already owed these material benefits ; Eddius Stephanus then pointed out that those ungrateful enough not to convert willingly did so at the king 's command .
9 Some public sector organizations have been through the debate over an agonizing number of years : local authorities in the UK did so at the turn of the century and generally concluded that ‘ receipts and payments ’ was not sufficient .
10 It did so at the rate of 4–7 in ( 10–18 cm ) per year until it collided with the Laurasian land mass ( North America and Eurasia , which were then joined ) .
11 The variations in their prosperity depended often on how far the developing cloth trade affected individual places ; some towns undoubtedly grew , particularly in the early sixteenth century , but they often did so at the expense of others rather than through a serious movement of population from the countryside , although some such drift occurred .
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