Example sentences of "they did on the " 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	People will spend more on cooking oil during the lifetime of the machine that they did on the initial capital cost of the machine .
3	The major activity of the youths seemed to be ‘ doing nothing , , and when asked what they did on the street that was the standard reply .
4	As had occurred before , and was to occur again , pacifist agitators had more impact on the reorganization of the party system than they did on the issues of war and peace that they were trying to affect .
5	There is less time to think as hazards loom quicker than they did on the old boats , and accurate navigation becomes ever more critical .
6	Rooms did not interconnect or have folding doors , as they did on the Continent ; they had a single door that could be shut .
7	I , I mean they did on the farms .
8	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 .
9	But , as I say , I we I went there and I got all the information there , and then I went into Dixons and I I did what they did on the television , you know , started talking and so I said well er , you know , do you have the er ha I noticed that there was erm no finance er
10	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 .

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