Example sentences of "did [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being a mother has a certain status after all , it makes you a grown-up person , something you ca n't feel , if , like a girl I met in Barnsley , you leave school , which you hated anyway , and did badly at , become unemployed , and there 's no job except perhaps a government scheme . |
| 2 | She 'd known he was growing up peculiar — he did badly at school , and had no friends — but she 'd begun to see , from living in the same house as him again , how different he was from other kids . |
| 3 | Partial topic framework existing in a conversation between K ( 20+ , female , Edinburgh-resident , university student , … ) and J ( 60+ , male , Edinburgh-resident , retired , … ) in P Working Men 's Club , Edinburgh , … ) at T ( early evening , spring , 1976 , … ) mentioning ( J's three children — J ‘ s brothers — the schools they attended — the schools J attended — that J did badly at school — J left school at fourteen ) when K asks J what he did after he left school J : oh I done odd jobs like + paper boy + chemist 's shop worked in a chemist shop + and done two or three others+ and I finally started in the bricklaying + so I served my time as a bricklayer + K : that 's good money J : nowadays it is but in that + when my time was out it wasn't+ it was only three pounds nine a week + so + + K : my father was a stonemason and he started at home + and they were paid a halfpenny an hour extra for being left-handed + + |
| 4 | The Conservative Party won only 42.9 per cent of the popular vote , less than they had achieved in any election between 1945 and 1979 , and did badly in Scotland and much of northern England . |
| 5 | But B of course if you did badly in those elections in May the government might have done badly in May , then morale would have been rock bottom of having to go into an election , he would have had to go for an election six weeks later or they 'd run out of time , yeah . |
| 6 | Mark and Jane , for example , who rejected the implicit values and beliefs of the discipline , both did badly in their degrees . |
| 7 | Democratic mayors did badly in Houston and San Francisco , Mississippi replaced Democratic governor Ray Mabus with its first Republican governor since the 1870s , and Virginia and New Jersey elected Republican legislatures in votes widely interpreted as expressing dissatisfaction with their Democratic governors . |
| 8 | Notwithstanding its measure of success nationally , the Congress ( I ) did badly in the Hindi heartland state of Uttar Pradesh , winning only Rajiv Gandhi 's former seat at Amethi , and none of the 17 state assembly seats being contested at the same time in that state . |
| 9 | The single most important move of the 1938–50 period was the extension of selection to the entire age group , and the 1944 Act actually made this more commonplace , but it did not create the move — only forty-three LEAs , less than half , considered the whole group throughout the selection process , another forty LEAs qualified children by excluding those who did badly in a first exam as part of the selection procedure . |
| 10 | ‘ Maybe the pressure will get to him like it did eventually to me . |
| 11 | In the twentieth century er the president who did most to , to develop the office further was , was Franklin Roosevelt , Theodore 's cousin er and Franklin Roosevelt , who became president in , in the nineteen thirties and the time of the great depression , and remained president for , till nineteen forty five so He was president for thirteen years er and his political opponents were so upset by this that they actually amended the constitution afterwards to prevent any future president from serving more than two terms of as president , so eight years is the maximum that anyone can serve as president . |
| 12 | The legislation did most for the better-paid male workers , an increasingly crucial sector of the workforce both economically and politically . |
| 13 | Claire Patterson , now at the BBC , did Right to Reply at Channel 4 . |
| 14 | Waddington , one of four London galleries making an impressive contribution to the fair , brought works by Sean Scully , Patrick Caulfield , Ian Davenport and Barry Flanagan , but did better with more classic drawings , selling sheets by Matisse and Picabia , and expecting to place a canvas by Leger . |
| 15 | The B set did particularly badly on number of words correctly accessed according to definition ( i ) i.e. intended words ( 1% ) , but did better on definition ( ii ) i.e. valid words ( 20% ) . |
| 16 | Overall losses on general insurance fell from £157.3 million in 1991 to £61 million last year , and the group also did better on its core life assurance and pensions business . |
| 17 | We all know about that Stewart we did better without the box . |
| 18 | Labour did better in 1992 than in 1983 or 1987 , but otherwise it is the party 's worst performance since the dark days of 1931 . |
| 19 | They found that the older children born in the first part of the year did better in reading and arithmetic tests than their younger classmates born later in the same year . |
| 20 | Dr Martin Jarvis , of the Institute of Psychiatry in London , found coffee drinkers did better in tests than tea drinkers . |
| 21 | You did better against those … those twats than I 'd 've expected . |
| 22 | Hence for example , studies of youth employment and unemployment often defined ‘ work ’ as something which people did only outside the home , thus excluding housework from serious study . |
| 23 | She was barely aware of the other models joining her on the platform , followed by Rainmondo himself , something he did only for very important clients . |
| 24 | Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths . |
| 25 | From 1932 onward , a deep mutual respect and musical understanding developed between these artists , and shone in everything they did together through to their final joint concert in Gothenburg on August 5th , 1960 ; a month before Björling 's sudden death . |
| 26 | The Inside Outs we did together on homelessness and cancer cures . |
| 27 | Equally , when Bishop Æthelstan of Hereford was involved in litigation over an estate in Cnut 's time , it was ordered ( S 1460 ) that the boundaries be retraced , and this the bishop did together with the man who had sold him the land and the witnesses . |
| 28 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 29 | It was easier going to the house — he and Richard 's wife Pat used to swap wartime evacuation stories with each other and then they would play verbal tennis , making conversation out of the spoken lyrics of Forties ' songs — than going to the theatre to see other actors , as they sometimes did together after the run of Public Eye . |
| 30 | He was only allowed to work provided he did so during reasonable daylight hours . |