Example sentences of "did the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is one last question which the score can not help us settle — how did The Fairy Queen open in May 1692 : with Act 1 , scene 1 in the 1692 quarto ? |
| 2 | In the pantomime Cinderella , what did the fairy godmother use to make the coach ? |
| 3 | Why did the RHA decide to close Friern and Claybury ? ? |
| 4 | How then did the RHA develop its plan for closure ? |
| 5 | Modern archaeology shows that prehistoric societies were complex , though even without this it should have been obvious that only an essentially stable and intelligent society would have constructed a structure such as the Neolithic henge at Avebury and its complex could not have been constructed over such a span of time ; involving as it did the excavation of a quarter of a million tonnes of chalk and the transportation and erection of hundreds of stones weighing up to about 50 tonnes each . |
| 6 | By , by the end of the time when I er did the address I had about ten hearts all over the screen . |
| 7 | Only when he broke through into sight of the track and the buildings did the realisation hit him . |
| 8 | In response to the coup the Prime Minster , Alfonso de los Heros Perez Alba , immediately resigned as did the Attorney General , Pedro Méndez Jurado , who was replaced by Hugo Ernesto Denegri Cornejo . |
| 9 | The cherry berets did the scouting ; they did n't trust the Danuese battalions with this . |
| 10 | Neither did the sending of one or two injured players to Argentina earlier this year reflect well on the team management . |
| 11 | all very high mucky muck stuff and they would n't trust me with anything but at least I did the copying work on it . |
| 12 | However , it turns out that the question is unacceptable when the final property is an adjective : ( 24 ) the jury found Ernest guilty : what did the jury do guilty ? |
| 13 | What did the Ministry expect , how did they think the men would react ? |
| 14 | 4.3 Once again , our interpretation has consequences for grammaticality and linguistic form which match observable data : First , it implies , inter alia , that adjectives which can not be ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase — such as the associatives — will be unacceptable here , just as they are in postnominal attributive position , and this is indeed the case : ( 19 ) how did the Ministry send their expert ? they sent their expert well-briefed they sent their expert meteorological ( 20 ) how do you find the new flag ? we find the flag gaudy we find the flag national |
| 15 | Later the addition of a third dimension in the form of cables and pipes sterilised the overlying surface as did the laying of rails to facilitate rapid movement by tram . |
| 16 | What time did the coach leave ? |
| 17 | Even Miss Hervey had remarked on it when she did the test weigh ; seven days old , and taking so much already . |
| 18 | In all about one-third of the pupils who did the test actually used scissors . |
| 19 | and freaked out , right , er we did the test on Friday , right and he was n't in on the Monday |
| 20 | she said it 's hard enough for people with jobs to exist today without all this and she 's gone back to college on the flexi idea , erm , brush up her typing because she said , now whether she 's thinking of future years , she said when she left here that time , although she got that job she said it was n't easy , she said because I had no bits of paper as such , although when I did the test I passed it , she said it was n't simple , so she 's doing |
| 21 | How did the unit fit with the time available ? 2 . |
| 22 | Did the Unit never in fact settle on a simple enough statement of its function to entrust to journalists ? |
| 23 | She briefly wondered if it was perhaps the work of Earth Reptiles , but swiftly dismissed the idea , since not only did the style not match theirs , but there was no sign of their hibernation hives . |
| 24 | Did the style of the conference suit you |
| 25 | Elementary education was to be provided for all children in England and Wales ; now did the village want a new church school , or would it prefer a board school , one which would be secular and undenominational ? |
| 26 | The poem ends by asking if humans and the world were evolved so that they could be destroyed in war then why did the sun bother to give life to things in the first place as it all seems silly and pointless . |
| 27 | The word ‘ fatuous ’ reminds us of the title , meaning idiotic — Owen then asks the reader , why did the sun 's rays labour over waking up earth ? |
| 28 | So did the choreographer Jerome Robbins . |
| 29 | Despite this early re-appraisal only in 1971 did the responsibility for the care of the mentally handicapped move back to the local authorities , where it now remains . |
| 30 | Johnny , Johnny would ask you if you did the auditing for Westminster , but , er that 's a bit wrong at this stage . |