Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] do from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standing at a safe distance , my eyeballs popped at the sight of the rich variety of penises on show , ranging as they did from dainty chipolatas to Bowyer 's jumbo sausages , with a few unfortunate specimens doing impersonations of mummified button mushrooms left for dead at the bottom of a refrigerator . |
| 2 | My choice of heating equipment may raise a few eyebrows , ranging as it does from the advanced to the primitive . |
| 3 | Proceeding as it does from dogma , the Marxist pronouncement on Owen and the idea of the industrial co-operative considered as an extension of democracy is a verdict from which there is no appeal . |
| 4 | The effect on the Reed price was electric , moving as it did from 485p on the day prior to the announcement to 531p at the close of trading on the day of the announcement and to 641p at year end . |
| 5 | And if the Mass enacted the social reality of the body of Christ , it also enacted the recognised pattern of personal contemplative experience , moving as it did from confession , the recognition of the condition of sin and fallen man , through the articulation of faith as revealed in Scripture and Creed , to the offering to God of the God-given fruits of human labour through which the gift of his presence is made known . |
| 6 | Most important of all , these workers , coming as they do from countries and occupations ( mostly poor and tedious peasant agriculture ) with much lower incomes , are impressed by their new comparative well-being . |
| 7 | ‘ I told her , sir , coming as I did from the market where the news was fresh and thinking … ’ |
| 8 | When it disappeared from the catalogue and by chance I was offered a knighthood , I always said that the Queen , coming as she does from an angling family , was compensating me for having had my name taken out of Hardy 's catalogue . |
| 9 | But is the consent valid , coming as it does from someone who is under severe mental stress ? |
| 10 | The Norwegian Forest cat is another large breed , coming as it does from the coldest part of the domestic cat 's range . |
| 11 | One hesitates to dispute this judgement , coming as it does from a source with such impeccable credentials in pitiless cynicism , but the fact remains that the young men of Oriel did n't see it quite that way . |
| 12 | Coming as it does from a historian who spent many years as a professional diplomatic officer , this judgment must command respect . |
| 13 | Coming as it did from such a family — not only from Lazarus ' and Lyon 's own strenuous devotions to their faith , in which names are of the greatest significance , but also from that of Solomon Klinitsky-Klein , his maternal grandfather and his very similar tradition . |
| 14 | It maddened Adam , his misuse of this word , which could n't of course be applied to guiding anyone on land , coming as it did from the Latin navigare and thence from navis , feminine , a ship , and agere , to drive or guide . |
| 15 | And as England found to their cost only last month , it is an ideal which still thrives on the Continent , Norway 's equaliser coming as it did from a 30-yard out-of-the-blue effort . |
| 16 | The motion in favour of nuclear power , coming as it did from the Scottish NUM , represents a significant breakthrough in trades union thinking on energy issues . |