Example sentences of "it did [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did however eventually become as strong over the next 9 months , especially after the family moved to Birmingham too . |
| 2 | When it reached about 3ft I pinched out the top to make it branch , which it did most satisfactorily . |
| 3 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 4 | This was based on his father 's life and it did well enough to bring in five thousand pounds . |
| 5 | The room itself would have been enough to efface any human material less striking than Clelia 's mother , and it did indeed more or less totally efface the unobtrusive Martin , who sat quietly dissociated , perched on the edge of a gilt-framed armchair , looking as though he did not quite mean to be there . |
| 6 | Nonetheless , it did almost certainly delay the task of writing up some of the results contained in his voluminous notebooks . |
| 7 | It did quite well for a time . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ So I did the first album , ‘ Never Look Back ’ , and it did really well . |
| 9 | ‘ So we made the pickup and it did really well . |
| 10 | It did very well with English Language Teaching sales er , in Europe and Asia as planned and its medical and professional sponsored adver erm , business in , in Japan grew much quicker than we expected . |
| 11 | It did very well for 20 years ; four adults in it and there was no trouble getting up Sutton Bank . |
| 12 | Will the money run out , as it did once before , with the consequential loss not only of the technological advantages gained but of the scientific and technical expertise ? |
| 13 | It did so badly afterwards that I decided racing was not for me . |
| 14 | But it did so most sharply in the cyclical industries , where little of the takeover fun was happening . |
| 15 | It did so well that the King gave a charter to the ‘ gentlemen adventuring into Hudson 's Bay ’ which allowed them a monopoly of trade in the whole area of the rivers and streams running into the Bay . |
| 16 | Although it did so just 150 yards from the first inhabited house of the 7,000-population Sicilian town , the steaming wall of lava — here 20 feet high , and in other places towering more than 50 feet — managed first to swallow up a summer cottage and a vineyard dotted with fruit trees . |
| 17 | It did so not only through the stringent processing of applications and the guidance it offered individual institutions , but also through more general analysis of the problems faced by institutions making the transition from ‘ monotechnic ’ to diversified colleges . |
| 18 | Whoever used it did so rarely and left few traces . |
| 19 | True , it did so cautiously — the cut in the discount rate from 8.0 to 7.5 per cent ( with no change in the Lombard rate ) does indeed represent a modest move — but this caution is clearly an attempt to take account of the slowdown of the German economy while signalling that the central bankers are continuing to keep an eye on inflation . |
| 20 | Entering his studio always gave his spirit a lift ; it did so now . |
| 21 | It did so only at a price ; but it is the measure of his greatness that few others in ancient or modern times have attempted , let alone carried through , a comparable essay in the reorientation of Christian thought . |
| 22 | Although the Crown avoided a large debt it did so only by reducing its own revenue and patronage and by imposing the serious social burdens of debasement . |
| 23 | If special programme participants are subtracted from the temporary labour force we find that , whilst it grew between 1983 and 1986 , it did so only very slightly — by only just over five per cent . |
| 24 | And very strangely it did so too . |