Example sentences of "did [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This he did as a public duty until the early nineteenth century , despite the problems of growing age ; his subordinates included the zealous Lord Pelham , later Home Secretary . |
| 2 | The feeling was that Richards should have declared before he did as the last hour 's batting produced few runs , but when England set about playing out time , Larkins , having gone first ball in the first innings , lasted only one more this time . |
| 3 | THE former Somerset captain ( described rather surprisingly on the flap as ‘ former England cricketer ’ ) seems to be making rather louder noises as a journalist — particularly in Australia — than he did as an intense and determined batsman . |
| 4 | You did about the same actually . |
| 5 | Throughout the round Alliss hit the ball almost as well as he did during a competitive career in which he won 23 Tour titles and represented Britain and Ireland eight times in the Ryder Cup . |
| 6 | This was only his second murder in eighteen years , and he was somewhat annoyed by it , coming as it did during the best fishing of the year , and right at the time when his garden was at its peak . |
| 7 | It would be much simpler if he were simply talking about the relationship between the legislative and the executive cos here he could say right , if the executive gets out of hand and starts acting arbitrarily and tyrannically , then the legislative acting on behalf of the people as a whole can take action as indeed parliament did during the civil wars . |
| 8 | Just as he did during the general election when we said that the Tories planned to put up VAT . |
| 9 | This arrangement means there is no need for Mrs Thatcher to consider declaring a State of Emergency , as Mr Heath 's government did during the 1973 miners ' strike . |
| 10 | This discreet arrangement means , among other things , that there was no need for Mrs Thatcher to consider declaring a state of emergency , as Mr Heath 's government did during the 1973 miners ' strike . |
| 11 | Privately , Rangers ' management feel the Belgian player involved with Hateley was guilty of conning the referee into taking the action he did during the first half of Wednesday 's match . |
| 12 | IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war . |
| 13 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , when the occasion demanded it ( as it did during the turbulent period in which he became Vice-Chancellor of Bristol University ) , he showed great courage and firmness — the latter always in the nicest possible way . |
| 15 | Does not my right hon. Friend agree that the last thing that business needs is for business rates to be brought back under the control of uncapped , loony Labour authorities who will send rates sky rocketing , as they did during the early 1980s ? |
| 16 | Perhaps people who depended as much on mammoths as the hunting bands of south Russia or central Europe did during the late Ice Age sought by such means to identify with their gigantic and awesome prey . |
| 17 | Just as it did during the mass exodus in the weeks before the Berlin Wall was built , the state propaganda machine is claiming that the current wave of emigration is due to a campaign organised by West Germany to lure their people away . |
| 18 | to have a course , but if the crew on that particular ship mutinies , as they did during the last er Shadow Cabinet , then you 're in trouble , are n't you ? |
| 19 | We would suggest that in times of economic crisis and recession several of these conditions are indeed likely to predominate and that in fact they did during the 1980s in the UK . |
| 20 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 21 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 22 | Lord Newport asked Richard to teach in his place , which he did for a few months . |
| 23 | When Ken thereupon resigned , however , William appealed to him to remain , which he did for a further year . |
| 24 | The southern States stand out very strongly as having experienced a Democratic hegemony then , as they did for the entire century beforehand . |
| 25 | ‘ Better than you did for the entire evening . ’ |
| 26 | He has also pointed out that the future did not loom so large for them as it did for the Roman historians , who were anxious about the fate of their empire . |
| 27 | Just as this same lively and turbulent natural process did for the ancient Egyptians . |
| 28 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that there is much to be commended in general in his decision to reduce the infantry battalions by only 12 , 13 or 14 per cent. , which is a great deal better than what he did for the Regular Army ? |
| 29 | That coterie would also act , as they did for the 1991 event , very much as a think tank . |
| 30 | Forming a club enables them to enter competitions together , and this they did for the first time recently at the combined Hampshire and Berkshire county championships , held at Reading gaol . |