Example sentences of "did [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 2 | He did so in the knowledge that a new election law , passed shortly before the no-confidence motion , is likely to reduce parliamentary fragmentation . |
| 3 | But when he argued over the great issues of human belief , he still did so in the tone which he reserved for the politics of the pavement and the public baths , the voice pitched somewhere between a sneer and a snarl . |
| 4 | At about the same time the Party was attempting to make contact with him and finally did so in the persons of two of its eventually outstanding members , Vo Nguyen Giap and Pham Van Dong . |
| 5 | There is thus a nice irony in the fact that the man who undertook the seminal voyage , and did so in the name of Spain , was in fact Portuguese . |
| 6 | When Behaviouralists objected to the presence of unobservables in Realist theories , they did so in the name of science and the same basic idea of what science demands . |
| 7 | In 1945 , when the Labour Party asked and received retrospective electoral approval for the trans-formation of 1940 , it did so in the language of nationalism . |
| 8 | Through increased consumption per capita , through the development of markets for refined sugar among Russia 's clients in Third World countries , and with assistance from other Communist countries Russia not only solved the problem of absorbing the portion of the Cuban crop formerly taken by the United States , but did so in the context both of a resumption after 1964 of the upward movement in its home production and of a contractual willingness to buy far more Cuban sugar than Castro has so far produced for the Russian market . |
| 9 | But all the indirect evidence , including the records of his reading in such writers on generation as Erasmus Darwin , Johannes Müller and Giorgio Gallesio , makes it most probable that he came to pangenesis in such a revision of his 1838 position , and that he did so in the years 1840–1 . |
| 10 | They did so in the face of widespread steel closures , rising unemployment , and knowledge about their poor prospects of re-employment , or they had had enough of work and felt they deserved a rest . |
| 11 | The Dutch did so in the East Indies , and all the European nations in Africa made use of chiefs to some extent . |
| 12 | These final exchanges were to have taken place at the border town of Mundhiriya from March 14 , but did not in the event go ahead as scheduled . |
| 13 | Before the Appellate Committee Mr. Newman however relied on certain additional points which had apparently been raised by him before the Divisional Court , but which the court did not in the circumstances find it necessary to consider in its judgment . |
| 14 | It was held that the exemption clause did not in the circumstances pass the test of reasonableness and that therefore their sellers could not rely upon it to limit their liability . |
| 15 | Those who knew Hebrew took significantly less time to sort the pack than those who did not in the condition that required symbols having the same name to be put together . |
| 16 | Even with delays while the Office of Fair Trading considered whether to refer these takeovers to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( it did not in the end ) the whole process had taken only until the spring of 1991 . |
| 17 | They did not in the measures involving the five guillotines which I introduced . |
| 18 | Labour did best in the north , where it is the stronger challenge to the Tories . |
| 19 | Altman found that even though all the animals fell below ‘ optimum diet ’ , given the food resources available , those that came closest did best in the end . |
| 20 | As for dressing and undressing , Stella did both in the toilet further along the corridor . |
| 21 | He did well in the middle but clearly appreciated the more rarefied atmosphere available toward the rear of the lineout where his height dissuaded the French from any real attempt to exploit Smith 's lack of inches . |
| 22 | Yesterday , one Right-winger who did well in the reshuffle , Home Secretary Michael Howard , followed Scottish Secretary Ian Lang in defending Mr Major . |
| 23 | ARENA did well in the March 1982 elections . |
| 24 | But although the away side did well in the Midlands , there was disappointment at Liverpool , where the locals went down by 31 shots . |
| 25 | Numerous independents stood and did well in the elections . |
| 26 | Jacobite candidates did well in the elections to Anne 's last two Parliaments , although it must be remembered that Tory candidates in general did well , so that the absolute rise in the number of Jacobite MPs did not necessarily reflect a relative rise in the strength of Jacobitism within the Tory party as a whole . |
| 27 | I did n't in the beginning but I do now , she can be funny although a bit bitchy at times . |
| 28 | In a clear reference to last June 's revelations by Royal writer Andrew Morton in his best-seller Diana : Her True Story , the spokesman added : ‘ We did n't in the summer and we do n't intend to now . ’ |
| 29 | One time Grandma was coming to stay but did n't in the end because she had flu . |
| 30 | They did n't in the end not because Kevin Keegan refreshed parts Ossie Ardiles could n't reach but because their players were too good . |