Example sentences of "[n mass] [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downstairs if you came in the front door ( which people rarely did ) you would find a large room on each side . |
| 2 | The net result with HM was that staff spent a lot of time asking and cajoling him , but he did not respond or became disturbed , and staff eventually did much of the activity themselves . |
| 3 | He argued that the kinds of jobs which young people eventually did were determined not so much by the development of their inner drives , as by the structure of opportunities by which they were surrounded — the kinds of jobs which were available for them to do in the labour market . |
| 4 | She put another couple of quid in did n't she now . |
| 5 | People especially did not wish to know about the administration 's private efforts to prop up the contras . |
| 6 | ‘ You see , people just did n't trust me . ’ |
| 7 | People just did n't take themselves quite so seriously as they do at Crufts . |
| 8 | ‘ Loads of people just did n't know their problems were diet-related , ’ she said . |
| 9 | People just did n't think , that was the trouble . |
| 10 | People just did n't want to see a sports film . ’ |
| 11 | Yeah a lot of people just did n't go probably on Friday . |
| 12 | Other anticipated problems , like contamination of the mirror by dust around the spacecraft just did not happen . |
| 13 | So I should think that 's but I reckon we must cos the government changed it , it knocked hundred and forty quid off did n't they ? |
| 14 | True , many people still did not know the extent to which , for example , the Gospels contradict each other . |
| 15 | Most people usually did . |
| 16 | People always did that , Geraldine reflected . |
| 17 | She said she envied me my position , where people always did what I requested . |
| 18 | Of course she could say it was for the children , as people always did … |
| 19 | He could n't hear anything , but he could see his father covered in pollen and then he had watched the actress get off the train and a lot of kissing and hugging , and everyone behaving the way theatre people always did behave . |
| 20 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 21 | She looked both wary and defiant ; well , people often did , faced with the police , but it was an unusual combination to find in a girl from the confident middle class . |
| 22 | Though urged by the school to apply for a place at Oxbridge , she chose instead to go to Sussex University , as bright young people often did in the 1970s , because the new universities were considered exciting and innovatory places to study at . |
| 23 | She had n't had one since … last Christmas , probably , but it was what people often did in films and books when their feelings were in turmoil . |
| 24 | We had a hell of a lot of staff though did n't we ? |
| 25 | Whether because people really did not know how to interpret the revolution in England or because they wanted fairly complete independence and correctly suspected that William was going to exercise much the same overall powers as Charles and James had done , there was a revolt in New York that took some months to suppress and the colonists of Massachusetts at the beginning of the 1690s were no more reconciled to English rule than in the past . |
| 26 | ‘ We taught them on three levels depending on experience , but people really did seem to enjoy it , ’ said Gill Wootten , a member of Cleveland Clog Dancers . |
| 27 | The light shows through the membrane-type front panel — which a couple of people here did n't like because they felt it looked a bit cheap . |
| 28 | But how did the , what was puzzling a lot of people how did he manage to get it off the ground and into his pocket . |
| 29 | Half the people there did not know that . |
| 30 | These people evidently did not know there was a war on . |