Example sentences of "as they did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those closest to him who should have been too frightened to behave as they did include his father , but they also include his sisters , who struck out for themselves in a fashion which has him siding with his father . |
| 2 | I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 3 | They knew quite as much about human nature at the Foreign Office as they did down at any police station . |
| 4 | Thus , Sprinter units working out of Derby depot , covering as they did stopping services on routes spread out as far as Leeds , Manchester , Cambridge , Aberystwyth , Pwllheli , Holyhead , Scarborough , Skegness and Cleethorpes , actually achieved annual mileages in excess of 100,000 miles per year , practically double that achieved by the older DMUs . |
| 5 | I also proposed they aim for all other dogs ( except known or obvious ‘ nasties ’ ) and people , and to speak encouragingly to Moby as they did so , to keep him relaxed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Under Felipismo , Spaniards have come to depend on the state again , as they did for so long under Generalissimo Franco 's regime . ’ |
| 8 | The Soviet Union , for its part , let it be known that if serious trouble did break out in East Germany Soviet troops would not move in , as they did to quell the 1953 revolt — so long as the West did not interfere either . |
| 9 | He added that this order would leave it open to the Press to deal with the questions of principle so far as they did not apply them to the facts . |
| 10 | Most of them arose as a result of an all-Russian phenomenon in 1922 — the lack of co-ordination and exchange of information between the centre and the localities , together with nonchalant neglect of provincial problems so long as they did not affect central political issues . |
| 11 | For Durkheim and his associates such ceremonies did not represent , as they did for Frazer , magic as some separate predecessor of religion , but were themselves elementary forms of the religious life . |
| 12 | Perhaps the two interconnect more closely than this suggests — as they did with Gide . |
| 13 | ‘ 1 just lived as they did and watched how they groomed themselves without any cosmetic aids . |
| 14 | They stopped to listen and as they did the knocking stopped . |
| 15 | Having waited long enough to see if they were needed , the two girls went up to Moran and kissed him on the lips as they did every night . |
| 16 | On the other hand , if Marx , like most of the anthropologists of his time , saw the study of human society as the continuation of biological evolution , he did not , as they did , believe that human historical processes were the same as the processes of natural selection . |
| 17 | Men did not get rich through running as they did through boxing . |
| 18 | As they did so ‘ they experienced a transcendent moment of community with their mates ’ . |
| 19 | The congregation stood up and amiably shuffled out , shaking hands as they did so . |
| 20 | ‘ I must stress that the involvement of armed forces , the police and the voluntary services will cease once the trades unions agree , as they did two weeks ago , to provide normal accident and emergency service ’ . |
| 21 | He feels that , for such an important event , countries should have a day 's rest between their games , as they did at the 1986 World Cup in London , where England lost in the final to Australia . |
| 22 | He feels that , for such an important event , countries should have a day 's rest between their games , as they did at the 1986 World Cup in London , where England lost in the final to Australia . |
| 23 | Incongruous , too , because La Dame de Fer and her redoubtable overseas mouthpiece , British Sources , spoke much as they did six months ago in Madrid when the Berlin Wall stood firm and Alexander Dubcek was still an obscure forestry official . |
| 24 | Fred Callaghan , the Woking coach and London cabbie , directs his Vauxhall team to Cambridge United confident that his full-strength squad will not lose their way as they did last season in falling 4-1 to the Fourth Division side . |
| 25 | ENGLAND suffered the same fate in the second Test with Pakistan in Lahore as they did in the first , losing heavily . |
| 26 | Nobody loves you when you 're down and out and if United go down to Forest , as they did in last year 's sixth round , Ferguson may well be out . |
| 27 | As they did so , more banks failed . |
| 28 | The great fear of China 's leaders is not that western conspirators will weave more plots but that China 's people , enraged by corruption and scornful of slogans , will take to the streets , as they did last June , to demand instant solutions that the government can not possibly provide . |
| 29 | Spokesmen for both schools say they will obey the law if they are ordered to admit women , but they will do so grudgingly , as they did with blacks in the 1970s . |
| 30 | Although he dressed as they did and walked among them , sullen glances were all he got . |