Example sentences of "as it [verb] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it goes to do so , the bug stabs it with its dagger-shaped mouth-parts . |
| 2 | He said that was last Friday , oh I said I was filling my timesheet in and my expense sheet , not that long , I said well it takes as long as it takes do n't it ? |
| 3 | The British still believed themselves to retain ‘ shared values ’ which the debate over a national educational curriculum in the 1980s helped stimulate anew , as it had done in the French Third Republic after 1875 . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , ’ Frau Nordern sat bolt upright and gave Marx her commanding glare which , however , did not have quite the same effect on him as it had done on the Duty Officer . |
| 5 | Jerusalem occupied the centre of this sacred universe , as it had done among the Jews . |
| 6 | Having seen Faldo retain the title in 1990 , Woosnam was aware that lightning could strike twice , metaphorically on this course as well as literally , as it had done on Saturday and threatened to do again yesterday . |
| 7 | However , Europe made it clear that it would continue to defer to the leadership of the United States in the ‘ peace process ’ , as it had done in the 1970s . |
| 8 | NICRA probably meant to register its protest but to stop short of an actual confrontation , as it had done in Dungannon . |
| 9 | Life went on at home much as it had done for years . |
| 10 | The population of the capital grew dramatically in the 18th and 19th centuries , just as it had done in the 17th , and despite the fact that its death rate was higher than the national average . |
| 11 | The game exploded into life very much as it had done in Glasgow . |
| 12 | The message was clear : Beijing University had a special character and wanted to go its own way , as it had done in the past , and lead other universities in the process . |
| 13 | The crusaders had returned to their interstellar castle — which flew onward from nowhere to nowhere just as it had done for many millennia , and must continue to do for many millennia more . |
| 14 | And the tone of the voice seemed to surprise Sister Aloysius as much as it had done the Mother Superior . |
| 15 | The two and a half second ticking sequence sounded exactly as it had done in the sonar room . |
| 16 | However , it is doubtful whether state pensions policies were the prime cause of this decline since it continued at much the same rate after 1948 as it had done before . |
| 17 | Held 2–8 March , the fair enjoyed twice as much space in its new premises , the Grand Palais , as it had done in its former venue , the basement of the Hotel George V. Still an all-French affair despite the eagerness of foreign galleries to get in , this year 's Salon was the first to include nine contemporary dealers , including Gerald Piltzer who made a last minute decision to join in . |
| 18 | When human life could be expected to last two or three times as long as it had done in the Middle Ages , great changes were bound to occur in the way men thought about themselves . |
| 19 | It no longer aroused feelings of exasperation , as it had done when he failed to link what had amounted to a form of work paralysis with the hopelessness which Dave must have felt about himself both at home and at school . |
| 20 | But much more was needed , and in 1542 the government resorted , as it had done in 1522 , to a forced loan . |
| 21 | The Imperial ambassador reported that the willing lenders never expected to see their money again : their pessimism was justified , since Parliament remitted all obligation on the King to repay , just as it had done in 1529 . |
| 22 | The room turned , as it had done in the parties of her youth . |
| 23 | After the war the industry was too depressed to re-equip itself as it had done in 1804 . |
| 24 | The knowledge that the larger margin was there for the taking , if you were bold enough to seize it , exercised him as much now as it had done back in 1973 . |
| 25 | It rustled round her ears as it had done before she went into mourning . |
| 26 | If Offa thought he could attempt ‘ to deal on equal terms ’ with Charlemagne , therefore , he was mistaken , and the likelihood is that the Frankish court had come to view his ascendancy in southern England with misgivings , destroying as it had done the traditional shape of political power in the south-east . |
| 27 | It was strange to Fenella to know that presently the night would begin to die and that the pale grey and pink streaks of the new day would start to lighten the sky as it had done on Renascia before the Star Maps changed and the Dark Lodestar had sent out its hungry beckoning . |
| 28 | But American imperialism was on the alert to intervene as it had done in the past ’ ( Roy : 1964 , p. 346 ) . |
| 29 | In the strengthening light , Cassie saw him with all the clarity and shock of their first encounter , and her flesh shivered with excitement , as it had done even then . |
| 30 | Except that they did not go , as promised , to the Rotunda , but went instead to a rival attraction advertised in Saunder 's News-Letter & Daily Advertiser : one , indeed , which ensured that Monsieur Jerricault 's Great Picture did not triumph in Dublin as it had done in London . |