Example sentences of "as it [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the vote on the imposition of sanctions against Iraq , Yemen abstained as it also did from the vote at the Arab League meeting which approved Arab military intervention in Saudi Arabia . |
| 2 | When the pilgrims ' way petered out , as it frequently did , you kept that small rooftop in your line of vision . |
| 3 | The only thing that could get one down — as it eventually did his American television followers — was his high-pitched , breathless , Scots delivery . |
| 4 | A formal , internal appeals procedure was eventually introduced in 1927 and , if that failed , as it invariably did , individual strategies could be developed — at a cost . |
| 5 | He identified so strongly with the system at its most ideal that when practice fell short , as it invariably did , he took it personally . |
| 6 | Breeze spoke casually , giving no sign of the fact that her heart had missed a beat — as it often did nowadays , when Roger 's name was mentioned . |
| 7 | The door at Martyr 's Cottage stood open as it often did in sunny weather , and she called out to Alice before , in response to her answering voice , moving down the corridor to the kitchen . |
| 8 | ‘ She 's leading you too , ’ Maggie reminded him quietly and his hand came as it often did to tilt her chin imperiously . |
| 9 | I tell you in all candour that the option no longer exists , and that , insofar as it ever did exist , it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy , followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step . ’ ? |
| 10 | Although his voice rides the airwaves as fresh as it ever did , he admits that physically he is past his prime : arthritis brings him recurring pain in his legs although he has already lived 18 months longer than he was told a 60-a-day smoking habit would allow . |
| 11 | The resurgence of ‘ fashion ’ as a topic high on the agenda , the preoccupation with food and clothing as matters of status and importance , provides as big and as successful a distraction now as it ever did . |
| 12 | Consequently , sleep might become disturbed , particularly when , in addition , kidney function does not decrease at night as much as it once did . |
| 13 | Although self-image does not obsess me as it once did , my interest continues and I find it exciting how fashions and looks have changed ; how many more possibilities there are for creativity and self-expression via clothes and image . |
| 14 | But somehow the invitation no longer holds the same enticing mystery as it once did . |
| 15 | It is as if , out of nowhere , his voice had spoken in the room , as it once did in the lane . |
| 16 | The rising toll of unemployment was another alarming problem , involving as it naturally did the families and children of the unemployed man or woman as well . |
| 17 | When reality did begin to break in , as it inevitably did towards the end , the British were unprepared for it . |
| 18 | Marshall knew Wickham would be ruefully amused by that ‘ yet ’ , carrying as it inevitably did an accusation of tardiness . |
| 19 | It fell to the Prince , as it always did , to give his Secretary 's most urgent preoccupation pause . |
| 20 | It followed the track it had followed for so many years , awakened the parties to rage , apathy and contempt in precisely the usual places and ended , as it always did , in a drawn game . |
| 21 | Fascination with the older girls won just as it always did and she crossed the landing , an expanse of lino dotted with what her mother referred to as ‘ slip mats ’ , pushed open the door and went in . |
| 22 | But it felt safe and familiar as it always did , with the sounds of chewing and the smell of sweat and cow-dung and half-eaten hay . |
| 23 | He hesitated , his anger subsiding quickly as it always did , and leaving him feeling exhausted . |
| 24 | It was going like the wind , as it always did , and in seconds it had passed the box exactly on time , rushing on to Bradley Fold No 3 signal . |
| 25 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
| 26 | The real power in Aquitaine , in the sense of the power to appoint men or collect and transfer money , lay , of course , with Henry — as it always did when he was on the Continent and chose to exercise it . |
| 27 | Intrigued , and a little afraid of the gyrating shadows that loomed like feathery figures on the walls beside them , the boy kept close to the bent figure , curiosity alive in him , and a strange excitement driving him on as it always did when he was with the old man . |
| 28 | And when she saw the family cottage , it seemed to be part of her body and life , as it always did . |
| 29 | But her pulses had started their racing , her heart its pounding at the first sight of him , her stomach lurching , as it always did , clean over and then , for hours afterwards , refusing to be still . |
| 30 | It suited her as well as it always did , the creamy-white silk throwing her olive skin into greater contrast against her thick raven hair and dark Mediterranean eyes . |