Example sentences of "did [adv] 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 . |
| 12 | Foaled in 1975 and humbly bred , John Henry changed hands three times before reaching Dot and Sam Rubin 's Dotsam Stables ( Sam Rubin bought the horse unseen over the phone , and did not at the time know that his new purchase was a gelding ) . |
| 13 | I did not at the time understand how to tie the tension to the size of pattern . |
| 14 | It did not at the time occur to me that their behaviour together had anything to do with what went on between Jean-Claude and me . |
| 15 | We did not at the time think that we were sacrificing sovereignty to join that system . |
| 16 | Antiscum did OK at the weekend as it happens . |
| 17 | Is that what you did up at the top of the |
| 18 | Did reasonable at the back and up front though . |
| 19 | Weir and Wainwright did well at the line-out and the loose forwards were just as quick and creative as their much more illustrious opponents . |
| 20 | I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ? |
| 21 | You just ca n't trust these thespians — any residual loyalty vanishes once the last cheque has been banked : according to the Evening Standard , Maureen Lippmann , who played the ‘ typical Jewish mother ’ Beattie ( BT , geddit ? — we did n't at the time , but then we detest brutal acronyms in place of meaningful names ) to the mutual benefit of British Telecommunications Plc and her bank balance , when asked to reveal her favourite word , replied , without hesitation , ‘ Mercurial ’ . |
| 22 | At that moment Lesley-Jane saw your face — she told me you ‘ looked over your shoulder at her ’ but I did n't at the time realise that meant you must have been facing away from the stage . |
| 23 | The question , coming as it did unexpectedly at the end of her monologue , disconcerted me . |
| 24 | ‘ Certainly , Cabannes did superbly at the back of the lineout today but he was a regular target and in all other areas I gave Back the edge . |