Example sentences of "and they did " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two companies said the Ministry of Defence had been supportive of their approach and they did not anticipate any regulatory problems . |
| 2 | I remember in the RAF at Blackpool going to the pictures , and they did n't bother with an intermission . |
| 3 | And they did delegate me , of course , handing me a guitar to get rid of . |
| 4 | He wanted to marry her , but she laughed at him too , and said she had already made her choices and they did not include giving up her God and replacing him with a somewhat vulgar and certainly brutal man . |
| 5 | The night before the wedding the girls hardly slept at all and they did not chatter to one another as they usually did until they found sleep . |
| 6 | He and his wife tried and tried to have another one and they did , but it took them all those years . |
| 7 | And they did n't get up and take a bow afterwards . |
| 8 | Maybe they had n't got any clothes , and they could n't afford one of the nice rooms , and they did n't belong anywhere , but they had each other and they had Baby to visit each day . |
| 9 | Under rubble in bomb-sites and they did n't get any nice flat stone with writing either . |
| 10 | They had no need to speak and they did not do so . |
| 11 | Crosby in 1981 was a classic example : the voters lost a man they had known for thirty years and they did n't know who to vote for instead . |
| 12 | The local Garda had been sent to Ashford Castle to protect Reagan , and they did n't get on with the CIA at all . |
| 13 | People were nevertheless quick to identify an interested argument and they did not feel disagreements less keenly because they understated them . |
| 14 | And they did . |
| 15 | Of course , people did agree with each other , and they did disagree , and they argued , persuaded , insinuated . |
| 16 | Chelsea are not a particularly good team and they did not have to play well to win this often tedious match . |
| 17 | Their play lacked bite and they did not manage a shot at goal until Clough 's attempt in the 62nd minute . |
| 18 | The petty officers said men of 72 nationalities were serving on the Red Crimea as ‘ one big happy family ’ and they did not want to be split up . |
| 19 | She does n't seem to have had intimate friends , except Miss Glover , and they did n't need to correspond , since they shared their house . |
| 20 | And so it was , and they did live happily ever after . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's no harm done and they did n't get far . |
| 22 | The living room ceiling was hung with bunting , the kitchen smelt of roast turkey , the house was full of people who all knew each other intimately , the videos had been ordered and the sideboard was laden with drink and in fact everyone behaved just like it was a real family Christmas , except that Boy had sex with two other men in the bathroom , and they did n't even bother to lock the door because they knew that no one else there would mind , knew that they did n't have to hide what they were doing from the rest of the party . |
| 23 | The expansion of American medical research , much of the finest quality , attracted European doctors who aspired to a scientific career , and they did well to spend a year or two in an American laboratory , or even to emigrate there altogether . |
| 24 | They called the shots while we were still tiny , and they did n't spring into crushed velvet bell-bottoms in 1966 , just because it was a happening thing to do . |
| 25 | As in Babylonia , this calendar was adapted to the sun by intercalating a thirteenth month from time to time , but this was left to local officials in the different cities to decide , and they did this individually and arbitrarily . |
| 26 | These flows were relatively small and they did n't get down to the lower , inhabited parts of the mountain . |
| 27 | ‘ My family came to do good and they did very well . ’ |
| 28 | It is clear that their devotion to The Wedding Present was too strong , and they did not have the resources to see through the whole project . |
| 29 | And they did . |
| 30 | This did n't bother Kenny at all as he more or less ignored them and they did the same to him . |