Example sentences of "did [adv] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unionists did not wish to stand down where they had a candidate of their own ready to fight ; in these circumstances , the NDP did remarkably well in 1918 , winning eleven seats , all in Labour strongholds where neither Unionists nor Coalition Liberals had much desire to stand , and they beat both MacDonald and Henderson . |
| 2 | This she did rather neatly by picking it up , tossing it in the air and catching it in her throat ; it was like a party trick . |
| 3 | The Hudson 's Bay Company went on trading at its posts on the shore of the Bay , and did rather well for its shareholders , but French fur traders moved out beyond the Great Lakes and by the 1740s La Verendrye had led them to places well west of the Bay . |
| 4 | Trade unions , in fact , did rather well during the 1930s . |
| 5 | It seems that the Tories did rather well in the general election by portraying devolu-tion and independence as being two heads of the same monster . |
| 6 | Dr Solomon 's Anti-Virus Toolkit 6.01 recently did rather well in an exhaustive test at the Virus test Centre at the University of Hamburg . |
| 7 | ‘ And yet , despite the Medicines Act and its regulations , CSM did little better with practolol once it had been marketed than was done without the legislation in the case of thalidomide ’ , we commented in 1980 . |
| 8 | Moreover some individual Franks did extremely well for themselves in imperial service , and one or two even gained the consulship . |
| 9 | I myself did so continuously through 1990 . |
| 10 | Rozanov spent the whole performance scribbling in a notebook , and did so again at the evening performance . |
| 11 | Later Fiona Smith , who had beaten her greatest rival Helen Troke in the Commonwealth Cup at Bath last month , did so again in the women 's singles final . |
| 12 | Hence women 's domestic role continued to be stressed both ideologically and in state policies , so that where women did engage in waged labour , they did so primarily in low-paid , unskilled jobs . |
| 13 | But the expansion which took place throughout the 1980s did so largely without direct government help . |
| 14 | James did prove determined to promote the interests of Catholics , and he did so largely through recourse to the prerogative powers of dispensing with or suspending the penal statutes . |
| 15 | But I can not abandon my identity now as I did so freely in those days of my youth . |
| 16 | The other talking point is the absence of Jonathan Webb who was in line , before Lansdowne Road , to do the midweek goal-kicking job which Bob Hiller did so invaluably for the triumphant 1971 Lions . |
| 17 | I loved watching Linford — he did so well for Britain . ’ |
| 18 | I think it 's fair to say he 's the first one to acknowledge that but he did win the gold medal and as a result he became yachtsman of the year and at a time when there is very a much heightened interest in the problems of disabled and people with visual impairment it was a real boost for sailors who have those problems that we did so well during the year . |
| 19 | Guscott 's , set up by a break by Brendan Mullin , was a felicitous product of the renewal of the Lions centre pairing who did so well in Paris last week . |
| 20 | In old age he used to regret that he did so well in the classical scholarship because it caused him not to read history . |
| 21 | ONE reason Boris Yeltsin did so well in the referendum on April 25th is that the Russian economy is looking better than at any time since reform began . |
| 22 | It is the Sidgwick title , ‘ written in cooperation with Queen ’ , that did so well in hardcover . |
| 23 | If he plays , who drops out of the midfield which did so well in Albania — or does Wilson move up front alongside the impressive Philip Gray — or Iain Dowie ! |
| 24 | Cannon 's team is the same as did so well in the world Championships in Winnipeg two seasons ago and they are again worthy champions . |
| 25 | But , even if one accepts those difficulties , the balance of advantage has lain in our continuing membership and in arguing from our position within the Community — from the ’ heart of Europe ’ to use the words of the Prime Minister — as my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) did so successfully over our budget contribution . |
| 26 | He did so successfully in 1948 , outpointing Vince Hawkins at Birmingham and thus becoming the first black champion to be recognized by the BBBC . |
| 27 | The politicians and officials who expressed public criticism of their work or brought pressure to bear , for whatever reason , did so mostly from an urban standpoint . |
| 28 | About 8% did so regularly at the age of 16 . |
| 29 | Carse did so partly as a result of George Smart 's comment that the conducteur ‘ answers the purpose of the prompter at our [ London ] opéra house , they have no other prompter , ’ which Carse took to imply impotence in the post of maître and artistic power in the violin leader . |
| 30 | He did so partly in order that those who looked to him for a lead would have no doubts about where he stood . |