Example sentences of "did [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what I did only shifted the dust about . |
| 2 | But it was n't like the long white er the wild white clover but it did only did maybe a year or two . |
| 3 | I did somewhat thought I |
| 4 | Katherine walked in and as she did so heard the smooth engine of the Rolls pulling away . |
| 5 | The shape of his spine seemed to ask to be stroked , and his sharp intake of breath when she did so made her more aware suddenly of her own power to affect him . |
| 6 | All that mattered to these people was to kill ; how they did so had little significance . |
| 7 | Those that did so recovered their costs within six months . |
| 8 | Nobody who read the Bible could legitimately doubt that miracles had once occurred ; the question whether they still did so became for doubters a test of their faith . |
| 9 | The Divisional Court upheld the scheme adopted by the GLC but the ground on which they did so seemed to be no more than that ‘ since the LTE could exercise its function to balance its revenue account by a grant from the GLC , a policy that reduced fares by means of such a grant was not unlawful ’ . |
| 10 | The reason they would not otherwise do so becomes apparent from the biographical sources , from which it is clear that though it was possible to obtain mevleviyets from these medreses , men who did so tended not to rise much higher but to spend the rest of their lives in relatively low-ranking mevleviyets . |
| 11 | We did once did n't we ? |
| 12 | But everything she , everything she did always had some embroidery on . |
| 13 | Yeah but I did still did see I do I wan na do a blue |
| 14 | He opened with ‘ Forever For Now ’ , the title of his latest album , and did later did ‘ It Had To Be You ’ from the soundtrack of ‘ When Harry Met Sally ’ , but good old weepies like ‘ Drifting ’ were kept for another time . |
| 15 | It did both did n't it ? |
| 16 | it did both did n't it , it went sinked to the bottom and it floated , but can you write the shell in both ? |
| 17 | People did though did n't they , anything you want down the shop ? |
| 18 | The times suited his predilection for historical references in clothes , for dressing up , for being glamorous and the collections he did then saw him develop sureness of touch allied with a taste for a dangerous dare or two which characterised much of what he does today . |
| 19 | ‘ The boy was a little shocked and had quite deep gashes but landing on the bed as he did certainly saved him . |
| 20 | But that teacher also turned out a lot of good scholars — some even passed the examination for grammar school , although not all those who did actually went . |