Example sentences of "[coord] did [pron] [vb infin] any [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Or did it make any difference either way ?
2 Nor did they see any future in piecemeal political reform of the autocracy .
3 Briggs and Nebes ( 1976 ) found no effect of familial handedness but nor did they find any effect of handedness per se .
4 She did not actually concentrate on the birds which happened to be there , nor did she feel any desire to feel them or encourage them to come near her — but she was quite able to relax knowing that they were there in the background .
5 Spemann and Mangold 's discovery of the organizer did not come as a surprise to Spemann , nor did it involve any element of luck .
6 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 .
7 But Kuzmitch alleged that Blake told him nothing about his work for MI6 nor did he give any indication that he was ardently pro-Communist .
8 The stark desire in his face threatened to take what strength she had left , nor did he make any attempt to hide the blatant response of his body to that consuming , passionate kiss , continuing to hold her so tightly that she could feel him with every part of her being , could still taste him inside her mouth .
9 Here I must admit to a certain prejudice , in that much as I admired Chapman 's engineering brilliance — it was intuitive , radical , lateral-thinking and extremely sharp — I did not share , then or now , the belief that Colin was a constructor in the class of Enzo Ferrari , nor did I feel any faith in him as a man or a leader of men .
10 Nor did I bear any ill-will against my poor mother , though she had brought me up in error , innocently ignorant of what she was doing to my psyche .
11 And did youse get any sort of erm protective clothing or anything that we got when I started in the yards ?
12 And did it make any difference , theologically speaking , whether he knew or not ?
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