Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yolland recommended that the Board of Trade authorise the BCR to open its line for running between Stretford Bridge and Bishop 's Castle only , and the Board presumably did so . |
| 2 | Me being Miss Know-it-all did go out , and lo and behold I got arrested . |
| 3 | You want some whisky in did |
| 4 | And you said you was feeling a bit better did n't you ? |
| 5 | Well we know we 've changed the resistance so did we make the resistance more or less ? |
| 6 | Santerre apparently did not go round his estates yesterday as he claimed . |
| 7 | Must have put your hair in did you ? |
| 8 | It would be both remarkable and alarming if that change alone did not bring greater scrutiny to bear on the perennial dilemmas of NATO strategy and of roles and responsibilities in the Alliance . |
| 9 | After a few moments hesitation so did I. |
| 10 | Now , Amy said something about paying this money in did you ? |
| 11 | Although this case obviously did not concern accountants directly , it proved crucial to subsequent claims against them . |
| 12 | Well you had your telly on did n't you ? |
| 13 | You put a new piece on did n't you ? |
| 14 | When the mail eventually did arrive , I received this very strange Christmas card which said , ‘ This year we will marry ’ . |
| 15 | The pharmaceutical industry unwisely did the same and instituted an expensive advertising campaign . |
| 16 | The fact that the supplies to Sibiu were simply deducted from another area 's quota apparently did not cause anyone to lose sleep . |
| 17 | Moreover , addition of the recombinant human TBP protein alone did not stimulate transcription activity . |
| 18 | Went in a car in did you ? |
| 19 | Then Curtis fell , and in quick succession so did Bailey and Smith . |
| 20 | It featured no film material , no exterior shooting and nothing whatsoever in the way of visual effects — such a department just did not exist in 1949 . |
| 21 | Doctor Who demanded a certain style of writing which , in the eyes of the Production Office , the second script just did not contain . |
| 22 | According to the court , it was not enough that the defendant deliberately did some act that had the effect , objectively assessed , of obstructing the police . |
| 23 | The parish priest of Brackenstown , Swords , County Dublin , distributed a newsletter at all masses on Ascension Thursday , 22 May — though before he had read Archbishop MacNamara 's guidelines on how to conduct the campaign — claiming that no-fault divorce was first introduced by Nazi Germany and that it had since wreaked ‘ more havoc on the Allied countries than any German army or air force ever did ’ ( Irish Times , 28 June 1986 ) . |
| 24 | In Wings v. Ellis the defendant mysteriously did not rely upon any such defence . |
| 25 | Our Corrinne brought the car home did n't she ? |
| 26 | In the second appeal , the tape clearly did demonstrate something about the gruffness and depth of the accused 's voice which could not have been gleaned from the transcript . |
| 27 | ‘ The defendant clearly did not see the bicycle because he hit it firmly in the rear , ’ Mr Reid said . |
| 28 | Those who persisted with their postgraduate study often did so purely in order to go abroad . |
| 29 | He did look crap though did n't he . |
| 30 | For the carnival the barrow was filled with vegetables and two wire half hoops straddled it from front to back and side to side , these were beautifully decorated with flowers by my sisters and the wheelbarrow really did look effective . |