Example sentences of "did [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Though the differences were minute they were capable of calling forth the highest passions : great content if you did well , or jealousy and despair if you did badly . |
| 3 | Their first album , 1980 's ‘ Who 's Been Talking ’ did badly , due to record company finance problems , and it was n't until the second LP , ‘ Bad Influence ’ , that the praise started pouring in . |
| 4 | Almost the only place where the Conservatives did badly was the normally impregnable Birmingham . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 + + |
| 9 | Mark and Jane , for example , who rejected the implicit values and beliefs of the discipline , both did badly in their degrees . |
| 10 | performances of individuals , to see who did badly and which questions they got wrong ; |
| 11 | All three did badly compared to Japan and performed roughly on a level with the United States . |
| 12 | As irony would have it , however , an examiner that I did have passed on to Rowse the information that , in the paper on Political Institutions , in which I did badly , I had vigorously attacked Rowse 's pamphlet on ‘ The Question of the House of Lords ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In fact , both groups did well in recognising black speakers who used Creole syntactic and phonological features ( speakers 7 , 8 and 12 ) while both did badly when presented with a white speaker using Creole syntax and phonology ( speaker 2 ) . |
| 17 | It indicates that a real change did eventually take place after all , in so far as freedom of information and the inappropriateness of direct consultation without public mediation eventually became accepted as something which , at worst , had to be risked and something which , at best , formed an essential task of the construction of a Christian conscience in a Christian society . |
| 18 | The money I was going to save on rent over the next month could be put towards a deposit on something — always assuming the Department of Employment did eventually pay me my due — and then I would be able to start again . |
| 19 | He wanted to read philosophy but the university refused him ; so did the cinema school and the drama faculty ( though to the amused admiration of his friends in the theatre , he did eventually attend , as a student , after the successful opening of The Garden Party , and when he had already completed his best play , The Memorandum ( which remains probaby his most effective play ) . |
| 20 | Inflation did eventually accelerate , and tight-money measures have barely begun to halt it . |
| 21 | When I did eventually tell her she was really embarrassed , and tried telling me that I was making it up ! |
| 22 | When I did eventually look in the mirror my hair was in patches , like little bits of baby hair . |
| 23 | The CEGB did eventually carry out its test drilling on the farm at Luxulyan . |
| 24 | Stoner in fact discovered , as I did eventually , that asking the obvious , straightforward things that worried opponents of nuclear power often got much more interesting answers than any attempt to confront the technicalities . |
| 25 | However , it did eventually become well known , and for 20 years organic mercurials were the most potent diuretics in clinical use . |
| 26 | Of those who did eventually end up in court , the acquittal rate by March 1985 was 24 per cent ( Wallington , 1985 : 150 ) . |
| 27 | The player did eventually join the Peacocks , but under unusual and unforeseen circumstances . |
| 28 | Filmer did eventually come down , but with Daffodil . |
| 29 | It hardly matters whether either of these stories is true , we know that cork was available , although not in France , and that Dom Pérignon did eventually use cork-stoppers for his wines , as corked bottles were dug up at Hautvillers when Moët & Chandon renovated the abbey in the late 1970s during its operations to turn it into a museum . |
| 30 | When the United Kingdom did eventually join , therefore , she joined a well-established existing organisation , the original six members of which had developed an understanding and evolved an attitude towards the Community which the United Kingdom has not come easily to share . |