Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 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 .
3 It did not aim for the situation that we 've been discussing , where people are trying to get the information .
4 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 .
5 ‘ [ 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 ,
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 He says that Speywood did not carry through the business plan presented to get the money .
9 They were not silent but only spoke after long intervals and what they said did not carry to the upstairs rooms .
10 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 .
11 So there were many , even among teachers , who , being university orientated , did not care for the Council .
12 Hazel did not care for the look of the trees .
13 He did not care about the money .
14 He really did not care about the effect of his actions .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 The black-market dollar , Brazil 's most nervous index , did not go through the roof .
20 He did not go towards the study door because his mother , coming down the stairs , called , ‘ Who was that …
21 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 .
22 Coroner : ‘ It seems to me deplorable that you did not go into the workhouse . ’
23 ‘ But I did not go into the priory , if that is what you are asking , Clerk .
24 Nails did not go into the shop but stood looking up the road .
25 They did not go into the forest or , at the most , only a hundred yards or so .
26 She did not go to the sea .
27 They did not go to the cinema !
28 She did not go to the station , but she went along the line to the place where the engines stopped .
29 She did not go to the room with the twin beds but to the single room with the sloping ceiling .
30 His best friend did not go to the funeral because he had already decided to go on a day trip to France !
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