Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I did eventually look in the mirror my hair was in patches , like little bits of baby hair . |
| 2 | In 1369 , for instance , John of Gaunt took an army from Calais to Harfleur , and devastated the Pays de Caux , while in the following year Sir Robert Knolles led an army from Calais which did much damage in the Ile-de-France ; but Charles V refused to give battle and neither chevauchée achieved anything . |
| 3 | During his first twenty years at Finsbury , Meldola published more than 250 papers and reports , and during his presidency of the Institute of Chemistry he did much work for the development of all aspects of its activities . |
| 4 | Not so at GWAD , the organisers , Sally B Supporters Club and the pilots , did much work behind the scenes to make sure the audience got a quality airshow . |
| 5 | It did not aim for the situation that we 've been discussing , where people are trying to get the information . |
| 6 | As tension at the count at Hummersknott School mounted , a worried gaggle of counters informed the Returning Officer the number of ballot papers did not tally with the number who had cast votes . |
| 7 | The fact that it was not long after that similar if lesser welfare legislation was introduced is indicative of the public demand and that clerical socio-moral theory did not tally with the people 's experience of reality . |
| 8 | ‘ [ the appellants ' ] ordered documents may show not only what inquiries the appellants made or did not make in the performance of their duties as auditors , but what they were told and by whom , |
| 9 | The two subjects in the eight-month restriction study who had already limited themselves to 6 hours did not benefit from the regime , and reverted to their own established norms . |
| 10 | The situation has been further complicated by the fact that she did not belong to any structures and therefore did not benefit from the discipline , counseling and collectivity of the Mass Democratic Movement . |
| 11 | He says that Speywood did not carry through the business plan presented to get the money . |
| 12 | They were not silent but only spoke after long intervals and what they said did not carry to the upstairs rooms . |
| 13 | He refused an invitation from the EC 's energy authority to investigate the possibilities of translating electricity , generated within green plants , into a new source of fuel : he did not care for the clause giving the EC the right to suppress anything in the eventual reports . |
| 14 | So there were many , even among teachers , who , being university orientated , did not care for the Council . |
| 15 | Hazel did not care for the look of the trees . |
| 16 | A man who did not care about the consequences of his actions . |
| 17 | He did not care about the money . |
| 18 | He really did not care about the effect of his actions . |
| 19 | Superintendent Robertson did not care about the mutterings from the lower ranks against her strict disciplinarian attitude . |
| 20 | She told herself she did not care about the fact that he was already married but was equally scarred by the knowledge that he did have a wife . |
| 21 | He told the reporter , who was driven blindfold to meet him at a secret location , that gangsters doused one of his two sons with petrol and threatened to kill them both if he did not co-operate in the theft . |
| 22 | She came round the corner , this tiny thing who did not reach to the top of the bed board even with the extension of the umbrella . |
| 23 | It grew colder still as the night fell , a crackling frost under a sickle moon , but the coldness did not reach into the Norderns ' flat and it would not have done so even had the central heating broken down , the joy and relief of the family generating enough warmth to melt the polar ice-cap if necessary . |
| 24 | The Greeks did not react — or rather did not go beyond the surface of Roman life — until they found themselves faced with a first-class power which had defeated the Greek armies of Pyrrhus on the open field . |
| 25 | The black-market dollar , Brazil 's most nervous index , did not go through the roof . |
| 26 | America 's first hostile bids did not go over the heads of the managers , but that did not make them friendly . |
| 27 | He did not go towards the study door because his mother , coming down the stairs , called , ‘ Who was that … |
| 28 | The interview did not go as the interview with MacQuillan 's mistress had gone and Rain was soon climbing ashore , silently cursing Crystal Daly 's gullibility . |
| 29 | Coroner : ‘ It seems to me deplorable that you did not go into the workhouse . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ But I did not go into the priory , if that is what you are asking , Clerk . |