Example sentences of "did [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As he did so he frantically waved it into the side . |
| 32 | Edward , leaden with gloom , waited for the kettle to boil ; as he did so he watched the steady progress of a wood-louse across the wall behind the sink . |
| 33 | And as he did so he continued to speak , letting his voice rise and fall like a flowing stream , lulling the sleeping child . |
| 34 | Merymose paused before replying , and when he did so he was awkward . |
| 35 | Frantically he rolled clear of any follow-up attack , and as he did so he felt something hard and bulky dig painfully into the small of his back . |
| 36 | Initially reluctant to tackle the area of post-war policy ( doubtless with thoughts of Lloyd George 's empty words of a quarter-century previously ) , when he did so he insisted on a full-blooded promise over the opposition of many in his party and administration . |
| 37 | He groped vaguely with his right hand as though reaching for a brush and as he did so he experienced an intolerable contraction in his chest , a paralysing pain , and with a cry of anguish he fell , taking the stool with him . |
| 38 | As she did so he moved over on to his back . |
| 39 | As they walked on , he started to talk about her future contract , and as he did so he put his arm about her shoulders and held her close . |
| 40 | As he did so he lost control of the vehicle which rolled over smashed into a lamp-post . |
| 41 | When asked to show what it was he offered a bottle opener , but Miss Sherwin said as he did so he dropped a polythene bag containing 12 LSD tabs and a small amount of cannabis resin . |
| 42 | He did so he actually organized the funeral . |
| 43 | When England 's centre-forward played like he did tonight you have to score two goals because I always thought Wright would get one . ’ |
| 44 | We did not we think I think we thought it would be seen merely as a gesture . |
| 45 | If they did , they were assessable to Hong Kong profits tax but if they did not they escaped assessment . |
| 46 | They must possess some hidden function to compensate their obvious disadvantages , because if they did not they would have been eliminated by negative selection . |
| 47 | My father feared my mother as much as I did and wished me to please and agree with her always , for when I did not she would complain to him of my behaviour and I suspected that when this happened his new wife would complain in her turn that he paid too much attention to us and too little to her and her own children . |
| 48 | Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity . |
| 49 | Culture thus transcends the lives of its living exponents in any one generation : if it did not it could not survive . |
| 50 | But at all events , it must be concluded that , assuming an entry age of 14 in most cases , the average length of time in the trade for those who married was ten or eleven years , while for those who did not it was very much longer . |
| 51 | You did not it was too bloody hot . |
| 52 | And his head was spinning from walking so far ; he walked everywhere , and though he stopped to eat every day when he was on one of these journeys of his he did not I expect eat especially properly . |
| 53 | Why did not I think of it before ? |
| 54 | Did not you hear Miss Rhymer say that it was poems , my dear ? ’ |
| 55 | ‘ Why did not you say so then ! ’ |
| 56 | It was in Mr Dunn 's interests to return the summons with his answers , because if he did not he would never know of judgement made against him in court declaring he owed Mr Rich the sum he claimed . |
| 57 | ‘ Did not he ever show himself a loyal supporter of the late king your husband ? ’ |
| 58 | With Thursday only a day or so hence , why did not he inform us there and then that he would be unable to convey our message to the queen our mother ? |
| 59 | And it 's a thing , I mean , certainly with the news interviews I did yesterday we emphasized to people , What do you know about the length of the news interview , and the news interview is perhaps ten minutes with five , six stories . |
| 60 | Although she did n't go to er but me dad did always you know believe in the Baptists . |