Example sentences of "they [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | That did n't take them long did it ? |
| 2 | the festivals car park , you know the whole thing and I mean then he kicked them off did n't he , so they moved up to Cross Street so in a way it 's their own fault , they could of let them stay there , I mean every body wants to be settled somewhere like |
| 3 | yorkshire pudding , I had to use them up did n't I , cos I do n't like eggs laid about , you know , I do n't like them being there a lot |
| 4 | Yeah , she fair , fair like she er nearly cut them up did n't she ? |
| 5 | Maybe what I thought I saw happen to them both did n't really happen at all . ’ |
| 6 | That one the tuner just keeps hunting so maybe the aerial cable 's not connected to the tuner , we had one of them before did n't we , where they ? |
| 7 | Even before that , I had been recording some of the memories of the older generation of Bishop 's Castle residents , realising how many of them really did ‘ well remember ’ the early part of this century ; much of this material has been used in the ‘ RECALL ’ project at Stone House , whose members have contributed greatly to my understanding of that period . |
| 8 | There used to be used to shunt them out did n't they . |
| 9 | He said , I asked , asked , well I left a message on Saturday for him to sort them out did n't I ? |
| 10 | I said I 'd bring them today did n't I ? |
| 11 | They rarely did . |
| 12 | They were meant to coincide so that travellers would have a smooth connection , but they rarely did , and the tea-houses and cheap hotels of Half a were swollen with travellers who invariably had to wait for days . |
| 13 | In one such instance , when the party prospectively disadvantaged happened to be in government , the Home Secretary took the extraordinary step of introducing the order and advising his party colleagues in the House to reject it , which they duly did , the stated reasons being the desirability of awaiting the outcome of a local government review then pending . |
| 14 | The company secretary orally requested the auditors to give a valuation , which they duly did , and the plaintiff sold his shares at that price . |
| 15 | And yet they eventually did talk about ‘ the leg ’ and then ‘ the disease ’ and Iain heard the word ‘ Spinabifida ’ ; a word previously heard only on TV when charities were appealing for money . |
| 16 | This they eventually did at Messina — another positive augury for the future , perhaps — appointing to the post René Mayer who was , in fact , an associate of Monnet . |
| 17 | They only did they were new to the quarry really . |
| 18 | It does little for the already low standing of politicians in the public esteem for Major to say effectively that they did not have plans to raise taxes then and they only did it because it was necessary . |
| 19 | They only did like erm a square foot every time . |
| 20 | Yeah , but I thought , sounded as if they only did tho , those that you blow up and this is n't , you can put it in , in the wash or anything . |
| 21 | What they perhaps did not realise at the time was that France was not prepared to compromise . |
| 22 | And both , as a result of all of the above , provided unparalleled opportunities for the British to convince themselves and show the world — it was remarkable how often Indirect Rulers reported on the esteem in which their system was held by other nations — that they naturally did certain things very , very well . |
| 23 | They naturally did not think to apply it to their own empires . |
| 24 | ‘ They obviously did n't want me , so I wo n't apply , ’ he said . |
| 25 | They obviously did n't mind the isolation . |
| 26 | I was disillusioned with all the experts who 'd been predicting one thing or another ; they obviously did n't know any more than anybody else . |
| 27 | Ever since he had been at high school he 'd found some enjoyment and relief by getting back at them in ways they obviously did n't expect . |
| 28 | but erm I , I mean I , they obviously did n't say oh no that 'll be a rotten idea , so |
| 29 | I do n't think they s th th they obviously did n't see it in , in quite the terms that |
| 30 | Meanwhile I noticed my friends paddling by smiling , laughing and waving at me as they obviously did not realise why I was screaming as loud as I possibly could . |