Example sentences of "as it did [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every pore of his skin felt aware , as sensitive as it did after the luxury of a hot bath . |
| 2 | He did n't care when it happened , as long as it did and that Hana would be alright again . |
| 3 | Look through the south door to the garden and there , across the moat , the formal garden of yews and allées stretches towards the downs just as it did when it was first laid out . |
| 4 | Labour may decide — as it did when Mr Michael Foot stood down in 1983 — to skip a generation and opt for one of the new breed of classless , ‘ voter-friendly ’ politicians who do not carry the baggage of the party 's failures in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 5 | The specimen shown has both its original valves preserved , and looks today much as it did when it had just died . |
| 6 | To prepare for this he had moved many of his photographs , pictures , books and other possessions from London so that the house , though not looking exactly as it did when he was there , became a showplace bursting with Shaviana . |
| 7 | The ground floor consisted of a key-cutter 's stall and some small shops , just as it did when Abu Khadra knew it . |
| 8 | As time went by the relief and pleasure at resuming a form of expression that ‘ seems to fit my thoughts better as I grow older , as it did when I was young also ’ became more obvious . |
| 9 | In the event membership declined through the 1960s and 1970s , and social activity has continued to outweigh political activism as it did when Abrams and Little ( 1965 ) studied the YCs . |
| 10 | But does it live self-consciously , or blithely as it did when I was a child ? |
| 11 | The game from that period looks just as it did when the original agreement was concluded — because of the infinite horizon assumption every subgame is identical to the original game — and so if it was in the firms ' interests to negotiate that agreement initially it will be in their interests now to renegotiate that agreement . |
| 12 | " They 're not playing no game , " Mrs Blakey said , her grammar lapsing as it did when she was distressed . |
| 13 | From the street the terrace looks much as it did when Lorimer and Miller had finished their works nearly 200 years ago . |