Example sentences of "did he [verb] " in BNC.

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31 Did he discover anything ? ’
32 But why did he choose to live in Bali rather than England ?
33 How did he choose ?
34 But if Gloucester chose to act against Hastings , rather than being stampeded into it by his discovery of a conspiracy , why did he choose to show his hand before his troops reached London and before he had control of the other possible claimants to the throne ?
35 ‘ But why did he choose that ? ’ she wanted to know .
36 But how did he choose the initial state or configuration of the universe ?
37 This would certainly have been within the power of an omnipotent being , but if he had started it off in such an incomprehensible way , why did he choose to let it evolve according to laws that we could understand ?
38 But if Gloucester chose to act against Hastings , rather than being stampeded into it by his discovery of a conspiracy , why did he choose to show his hand before his troops reached London and before he had control of the other possible claimants to the throne ?
39 ‘ Who is she ? ’ ( the weak form is usually pronounced without except at the beginning of a sentence ) ‘ Which did he choose ? ’
40 When did he when did he choose the car ?
41 Did he offer you any alternative ? ’
42 Deacon had taken over the head of the formation as the leader 's R/T was not working , and calling a warning to the other pilots , he swung into the attack on one Messerschmitt from the quarter position , breaking away to attack a second similarly , though in neither case did he observe any results .
43 ‘ Where did he hide it ? ’
44 And who did he marry like ?
45 To 500 either side , how many did he shake ?
46 Did he shake hands ?
47 What did he do'ed ?
48 He saw no evidence that the German Socialists were either willing or able to restrain Prussian ambitions , nor did he place any faith in bourgeois internationalism .
49 Did he suppose that Jaq had made a joke ?
50 In the choice of rotation by one farmer in East Anglia in 1970 , why did he decide to spread fertiliser at the start of Year 5 ?
51 How much of what the informants said was discarded by the interviewer because he did not find it useful — and by what criteria did he decide what was useful and what was not ?
52 He moved slowly , according to Nithard , " wanting to know which way things would go before he crossed the Alps " ; only when it had become clear that plenty of support would be forthcoming did he decide to claim " the whole empire " .
53 He mouthed and gesticulated — what did he mean ?
54 What sort of ‘ proper institutions ’ did he mean ?
55 What did he mean ?
56 Did he mean free people or Free People ?
57 Did he mean it ?
58 Did he mean that Mungo was not welcome here ?
59 ‘ What did he mean about the mill ? ’
60 What did he mean , Hoomey wondered ?
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