Example sentences of "did [adv] [vb infin] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four Hearts , on the other hand , was not a success although the play did not go quite as you might think . |
| 2 | The opening games did not go quite as I expected in that I was surprised to see Wales beat Ireland . |
| 3 | By hybridizing different varieties of peas , Mendel had shown that some characters are inherited as units on an ‘ all or nothing ’ basis — they did not blend together as Darwin and almost everyone else assumed . |
| 4 | This did not last long as the scale did not allow sufficient detail to be recorded and only some parts of Aberdeenshire were mapped in this manner . |
| 5 | The two halves of the heart did not ease apart as I 'd fancifully imagined , but clung desperately round one another like drowning lovers . |
| 6 | Consequently scientists did not move around as they do today , or even in the 19th century , and local learned societies and journals flourished . |
| 7 | So absorbed was she in the effort of preparing herself mentally for what lay ahead that she did not glance upstream as she drove across Cookham Bridge and wonder why there were no party-goers gathered round a marquee on the lawn of Swans ' Meadow , why indeed there was no marquee pitched on the lawn at all . |
| 8 | Later on you got what we call the fog cheese , from the second crop of grass in the autumn after haymaking , which was very rich but did not rise quite as well . |
| 9 | Carrie did not turn round as Seb went out into the yard to wash . |
| 10 | Held , allowing the appeal and granting the applications , that since on an application for the grant of leave under section 8 no question with regard to a child 's upbringing was determined , and since section 10(9) stipulated particular matters , including parental wishes , to which the court was to have regard on such an application , section 1(1) did not apply so as to make the children 's welfare the paramount consideration on an application for leave to apply for a residence order made by a person other than the child concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had applied the wrong test ; that as a result of his failure to require that the mother be notified of the application the judge had been deprived of additional material necessary to the proper exercise of his discretion ; and that in the exercise of a fresh discretion , having regard to the new evidence and to the circumstances of the case , the foster mother 's application for leave would be refused ( post , pp. 428G — 429F , 430F , 431C–E ) . |
| 11 | The jockey reported to a stern-faced Chester Barnes , Pipe 's assistant , that the horse did not pick up as he expected . |
| 12 | The scheme did not operate entirely as anticipated : the main departure was that there were some clients for whom the development officers provided no support , either because they were admitted immediately to institutional care ( and the development officers could not always influence this decision in the way they would have liked ) or because the clients did not need or want the services of the project . |
| 13 | Things did not work out as planned . |
| 14 | I saw that its arms did not swing properly as it walked — but , oh , how fast it walked ! |
| 15 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 16 | She did not look up as he struggled to open the door and stepped inside , where he stood perfectly still , hardly daring to breathe for fear of dropping his awkwardly held gift . |
| 17 | She did not look up as Clara entered the room , but said , " I put down large , and they go and send me outsize " . |
| 18 | He did not look up as she advanced down the long and beautiful room . |
| 19 | He did not look up as Harry approached , but went on working with the zeal and single-mindedness of one who is totally absorbed . |
| 20 | He could not catch what she said as she touched Cunningham 's shoulder and she did not look back as she walked swiftly from the bar . |
| 21 | These managers did not come across as having expert power , because they had had minimal training and appeared to be unorganised and therefore unprofessional in their conduct . |
| 22 | The three parties comprising the Alliance for Germany ( the CDU , the DSU and Democratic Awakening ) , however , did not join together as one faction despite pressure that they do so from their West German counterparts when they went to Bonn on March 22 for discussions on the formation of a government in East Berlin . |
| 23 | Donna did n't slow up as she roared up the slope . |
| 24 | It was evasive about why IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard did n't show up as licensees but it 's obviously expecting their announcements by and by . |
| 25 | The usual 'flu stiffness and aching in the muscles did n't go away as it should have done , so Father sent for Dr Allott , our family physician , a patient , gentle old man who always arrived in an Essex sedan and — more important to us — always carried a pocketful of toffees to give away to children . |
| 26 | I can honestly say I ca n't remember a show I definitely did n't like doing , although I might have been in some that did n't turn out as I though they would . ’ |
| 27 | In fact , it did n't work out as , when not controlled by a sitter , it would revolve slowly on its axis fourteen times one way and then reverse and repeat the exercise . |
| 28 | Recent research has shown that well-informed mothers who have been able to take responsibility for decisions in pregnancy and labour feel happier after the event , even when their plans did n't work out as they had expected them to . |
| 29 | In fairness to this young and skilful Victorians side they just did n't count yesterday as Randalstown were a class apart . |
| 30 | He did n't look up as we crossed the room , his head bent and the pen moving swiftly across pages held in a clipboard . |