Example sentences of "had do [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gabriel went back and told God what he had done for the three brothers . |
| 2 | However , Europe made it clear that it would continue to defer to the leadership of the United States in the ‘ peace process ’ , as it had done in the 1970s . |
| 3 | By the early 1980s ‘ PLO nationalism ’ was declining in credibility as Arab nationalism had done in the 1970s . |
| 4 | Spreading themselves out , they began to hitchhike , just as English students had done in the sixties . |
| 5 | The pressure of higher salaries , labour shortages and office rents was by 1989 causing more government departments to think of moving sections of work to the North , as some had done in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 6 | Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls fought long and hard to persuade his colleagues that the Court of Appeal should free itself from the fetter of being bound by its own previous decisions just as the House of Lords had done in the 1966 Practice Statement ( see below ) , and also suggested that the Court of Appeal was free to refuse to follow decisions of the House of Lords which were considered to be clearly wrong ( Carty , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | He urged the unemployed of the north to ‘ get on your bike ’ and look for work , as his window-cleaner father had done in the thirties . |
| 8 | There was no question of simply negotiating a deal with one American company , as producers had done in the 1930s , and then just hoping for the best . |
| 9 | As they had done in the 1930s , Soviet organisations approached state-owned Latin American oil companies . |
| 10 | A B Ed student must , therefore , undertake an academic study as part of his/her training ( just as the certificated teacher had to do in the 1920s ) . |