Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed to be having trouble putting one in front of the other but she did eventually make it to the steps of the disabled bus and fell inside . |
| 2 | Pahdra Singh has told me that although Proby 's cousin did manage to register the stand as a car , he did so describing it as a 1964 Skoda with 300,000 miles on the clock . |
| 3 | The sort of people who wanted a house that size these days did not want it in the high street of a market town , and this young woman surely would not have the income to keep it up . |
| 4 | But let me tell you now about just a few of those entries which did not make it to the final but which , nevertheless , had several redeeming features . |
| 5 | To know he had considered her ‘ special ’ was satisfying , but she did not regard it as a signal to fall headlong into his arms . |
| 6 | Althusser uses this case to support his claim that Marx held a complex view of social change , and did not regard it as the outcome of a single contradiction between the forces and the relations of production . |
| 7 | Many of the delegates were later to become officers , and although Eva did not realise it at the time people in high places were again taking note of her presence . |
| 8 | Yet I recently visited a hi-tech company which was fully conversant with activity-based costing yet did not do it on a regular annual basis . |
| 9 | His version of human freedom and motivation could easily have included poverty as a ‘ rational ’ reason for crime ; and there was no necessary reason for him to equate his social contract with the status quo as far as property relations were concerned ( after all , he did not equate it with the status quo in many other respects ) . |
| 10 | She certainly did not blend it with the crowd . |
| 11 | Also , the other reason that I did not leave it in the centre of the airfield was that the flares , the gooseneck flares ( a device with paraffin and a sort of rough wick ) , were laid out for night flying . |
| 12 | When he said to Cassin " Nous sommes la France " , he did not mean it in a rhetorical sense . |
| 13 | He merely strengthens the conclusions of the three wise men , who think that there may have been some recent decline but who certainly did not atribute it to the national curriculum , as the hon. Gentleman did . |
| 14 | She fell to her knees by the head of her youngest son , cradled it , yet did not lift it from the snow . |
| 15 | Jean-Claude must have been planning it since we arrived , but he did not mention it until the day before . |
| 16 | It was a lot stronger than I had imagined and so I did not treat it with the necessary respect . |
| 17 | In Ball , above , the court mentioned the " aimed at " doctrine but did not treat it as a separate element . |
| 18 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 19 | The Queen Alien was built in two versions , a full-size mechanical one also using two stuntmen inside , and a quarter-sized puppet , operated mechanically , since Cameron , who had accepted stop-motion for the Terminator 's final stage , did not like it for an organic creature . |
| 20 | She gave the young MacGregor a book on Parliament but he did not read it at the time , and he can not trace his decision to go into politics back to that . |
| 21 | The report dated 27th June , 1857 , was forwarded by Buckler to Hall , who said he did not receive it until the following Monday evening , 29th June . |
| 22 | They knew the realist option but did not take it as a way out of a social impasse , because , I would argue , the phenomenalist tendency of thought is too strong . |
| 23 | That position had been urged in amicus briefs filed by the French Republic and ( less emphatically ) by the Federal Republic of Germany , although the petitioners who had taken this position in the lower courts did not maintain it in the Supreme Court . |
| 24 | On this occasion , it once more called for the formation of a popular front against fascism , which did not endear it to the leadership of the Labour Party . |
| 25 | The Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) survived the abolition of the Greater London Council , but its control by Labour did not endear it to the Conservative government . |
| 26 | In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties . |
| 27 | He did not realize it in the Sixties , nor the Seventies . |
| 28 | So I read it and I gave a similar look back and I think I probably said something like that did n't happen or something along those lines , that 's hard to believe that had happened and passed it back to him and then that was it , we did not discuss it at the time … |
| 29 | The Church no doubt helped to speed up the decline of slavery ; it did not cause it in the first place . |
| 30 | When Ramakrishna saw Kasi the Holy City , he did not see it as a physical city but as the dreams and hopes of holy pilgrims that had fallen on the city , stratum on stratum so that it became a city of holy ideas , a spiritual city . |