Example sentences of "as they did [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How early Pound came by this perception is not clear , but certainly he had no illusions from the first that his Cantos , building as they did on the rhythmical and thematic procedures of Homage to Sextus Propertius , would be found readily acceptable . |
| 2 | Perhaps in time they 'll turn more of their songs into group showcases , as they did on Cash 's Big River , but as the Highwaymen rode into the sunset , they 'd succeeded in that most country of missions : they 'd kept their pride intact , and their boots on . |
| 3 | The Puritans frowned on the adorning of wells and springs as much as they did on adorning maypoles , and the tradition of decorating wells with flowers and green branches at the spring festivals , or on the feast of the patron saint of the well , died out . |
| 4 | Rooms did not interconnect or have folding doors , as they did on the Continent ; they had a single door that could be shut . |
| 5 | Animate or inanimate , indifferent or not , there was something luminous and terrible about these clouds , raining as they did on the just and the unjust alike . |
| 6 | And it may be that the Gardener Centre has a broader community function than previously realized , in that it might be a marvellous place for families and kids and mums and dads , as they did on the recent Gardener Open Day , to come up and spend some time in casual appreciation of the arts instead of what , traditionally , a university campus is supposed to do , which is a serious and intensive look at experimental and avant garde work . |
| 7 | He feels that , for such an important event , countries should have a day 's rest between their games , as they did at the 1986 World Cup in London , where England lost in the final to Australia . |
| 8 | He feels that , for such an important event , countries should have a day 's rest between their games , as they did at the 1986 World Cup in London , where England lost in the final to Australia . |
| 9 | A few girls were dancing together as they did at the youth club hops and the dancing was of the proper ‘ ballroom variety ’ — waltzes , quicksteps and foxtrots . |
| 10 | She could be pretty , she decided , if her hair were not so tightly scraped back from her face and if her eyes shone with eagerness , as they did at this moment . |
| 11 | The very worst time to take out a bond is when rates are low but then rise dramatically and unexpectedly , as they did at the end of the 1980s . |
| 12 | The very worst time to take out a bond is when rates are low but then rise dramatically and unexpectedly , as they did at the end of the 1980s |
| 13 | Cleaning up contamination is wonderfully labour-intensive : some old military sites being cleaned up by the Department of Energy now employ twice as many people as they did at their peak of production . |
| 14 | Ealhfrith 's personal religious predilections need not necessarily have borne undertones of political dissatisfaction but the differences on ecclesiastical matters between father and son , coming as they did at a time of profound change in Oswiu 's former position of influence in southern England , probably reflected a crisis of potentially serious dimensions . |
| 15 | I know you know of it and have even assayed it in a pipe , as they did at court when Astraea ruled and she was inclined to taste it now and then . |
| 16 | ‘ I would love to see how Leeds would handle the situation if we scored in the first minute , as they did at Ibrox . ’ |
| 17 | Men did not get rich through running as they did through boxing . |
| 18 | Third , they would have the same percentage — 55.6 — of the list votes as they did of the actual constituency votes . |
| 19 | On their part the workers protested over " oppressions " in the shape of late wage payment , truck , " stoppages " from pay for allegedly deficient workmanship , of effecting wage cuts by increasing the measure of work expected for a " price " , and of deducting excessive charges for rent of equipment and the supply of essential items , as often as they did of employers ' combinations to lower wages . |
| 20 | Such standards , which exclude the possibility of adultery and divorce , appear today to be impossibly hard , just as they did to Jesus ' disciples then . |
| 21 | Sometimes she saw the three of them as expatriates , stranded in some remote colony , obstinately adhering to old customs , a lost way of life , as they did to old forms of worship . |
| 22 | Such gestures appealed to many Romanians , as they did to Western observers anxious to see Ceauşescu as a ‘ patriot ’ and reformer . |
| 23 | The plain fact of the matter , snobbish though it may sound , was that they were both unintelligent and ill-educated in comparison to myself , belonging as they did to a different social class from the one into which I had been co-opted at school . |
| 24 | He walked up to him , aware of the ring of his feet on the tiled floor , wondering whether they sounded as portentous to the priest as they did to him . |
| 25 | They suffered considerable prejudice and criticism , adding as they did to the already excessive pool of surplus urban labour , though in practice they concentrated in trades , such as tailoring , in which there was relatively little competition . |
| 26 | There they give just the same protection to their new owners as they did to the jellyfish that developed them . |
| 27 | As they did to Mala and me . |
| 28 | In her blue dress with the big , lace collar , she must have looked as strange to the other customers as they did to her . |
| 29 | In cosmopolitan Cairo with its three principal working languages and at least a dozen other widely used ones people turned as readily to the overseas press as they did to the native one . |
| 30 | Galway will obviously be keen to shake Kilkenny out of their stride in the early stages — just as they did to Tipperary , indeed . |