Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] did " in BNC.

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1 it burst because she kept , she kept on eating did n't she ?
2 She was used to answering occasional questions about the child , who perhaps Jonquil did not really think existed after all .
3 So Lisa did not answer it .
4 So pre-programmed did their behaviours seem , that they themselves might have been the subjects of some meta-experiment and the pallor of their laboratory coats a function of their caged confinement .
5 So Veronica did n't support herself , Loretta noted .
6 They had to stop the machines because everybody was laughing see with Tara on the floor so Ann did n't even know she 'd fallen off the chair .
7 Gallup said Labour would win , and so Labour did .
8 So David did go to work there , though not without protest .
9 Emma had taught her to read before school , and now the chest was piled with golden and rose fairy books , Winnie the Pooh , Alice in Wonderland , and other things which perhaps Ruth did not yet grasp or should not yet be reading : Lord of the Flies , The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe , Cleopatra .
10 ‘ And so Alida did not come , ’ Dorothea said .
11 So Angel did not have the advantage of a university education .
12 Thankfully Steve was totally enraptured by the beautiful Maria Luisa so Ruth did n't have him on her conscience .
13 I never mentioned it because I thought perhaps Faye did n't like flowers in the house .
14 Perhaps Isabelle did n't intend it either .
15 We were three shots ahead , so perhaps Tom did n't need that much luck this time .
16 His personal life followed the same pattern ; of his wives only Hartini did not secure a divorce from him .
17 Chairman in your haste to get your own way for once , I mean , I had my hand up for about ten minutes and I thought that er , er our friend on your right had appraised you of that , because I think that you gave just as much a distorted view of what the real problem is , as perhaps Mr did , and I think that the way you railroaded that one through does you no credit at all .
18 But perhaps Mains did not really need to polish up his public relations , but simply to brush aside some of the habits , and myths about his early career .
19 So Breeze did her Christmas shopping alone , and looked after the house , and did the cooking .
20 So Mains did gain the reputation of being some rather grim eminence locked in his southern castle and given to humourless comment about the rugby matters of the day .
21 he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins .
22 So Parr did have a Christian name .
23 So Lee did all the shopping herself , wearing her fur coat and her black Russian-looking hat .
24 By 1985 only 5% did so , as the final test , order consolidation and shipping operations moved back to American manufacturing plants .
25 So Anna did it , on foot , delivering the magazines to the twenty-seven households in Loxford who took it , chiefly , Anna suspected , for the useful directory on the back page of plumbers and decorators and taxi services .
26 How much staff did we use ?
27 Linda received a liver from another child so surgeons did not have to cut an adult liver to size .
28 Property was also cheaper in Bristol than in London and so staff did not have to pay increased housing costs .
29 Obviously Miles did not trust her with his camera or there might have been a matching sequence of ‘ Miles in front of a shop …
30 Perhaps Ron did not have the greatest technical ability , but his commitment was never questioned and he could play pretty effectively on either flank so that he was therefore a useful defender .
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