Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] to [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her reputation as a glutton meant that while she often visited the matron with digestive problems these escapades did little harm to her popularity . |
| 2 | In a centralised education system , the setting up of machinery to undertake curriculum planning and development is no more than a means towards making possible the six processes I outlined at the beginning of this chapter and which in our ideal world should have happened logically at national level : laying a research base for change , deciding objectives , forming a strategy , developing materials , implementing them and evaluating both the process and the result — a clinical sequence which even the methodical Swedes did not perform to their satisfaction . |
| 3 | The inquest was told Sarah left her digs in early December but did not go to her home . |
| 4 | But I did not go to his church . |
| 5 | He did not cling to his rights ( Phil . |
| 6 | Even though insects did not answer to their names , they had to have them ; otherwise nobody knew what anybody else was talking about . |
| 7 | I did not cleave to their affectation that man 's essential role is to endure the sufferings of a senseless existence until death provides the bounty of eternal life . |
| 8 | Wallace did not reply to our letters and telephone calls . |
| 9 | When the tüv did not reply to his letters , Mr Cameron visited it in Essen . |
| 10 | She did not reply to his cards , and when she spoke to him on the telephone he said she always declined his invitations firmly . |
| 11 | He did not reply to my question but shuffled a paper and looked at his sidekick , the same woman who 'd visited with him before . |
| 12 | Mr. Rifkind did not reply to my letter although I addressed it to him personally at the House of Commons … |
| 13 | ‘ Our conversation did not end to my satisfaction , ’ he informed her tightly , coming in and closing the door . |
| 14 | He possessed the true explorer 's curiosity but did not bring to his journeys his own creative touch . |
| 15 | When he did not return to his hotel in the evening , Captain Trevor , a local man , bravely organized a search party . |
| 16 | There was little time left before his meeting with Merymose , so he did not return to his house , but took a circuitous route which would bring him to their rendezvous at the moment the sun touched the top of the western cliffs . |
| 17 | The interesting thing is that while Applegarth did not return to his trade , or to the union movement , he retained his political radicalism to the end of his days : for another fifty years . |
| 18 | But a doctor at the inquest said he believed the complications could have happened anyway and the unmatched blood did not lead to her death . |
| 19 | She did not refer to her anguish ; nor did she to mine , but she bent all her energies towards distracting me , insofar as that was possible . |
| 20 | Next morning he seemed to remember nothing of the night 's experiences , and Tess did not refer to his sleepwalking . |
| 21 | He had a written employment contract , but it did not refer to his place of work . |
| 22 | The lights were dim , and the room was dark ; her brother did not respond to her cries , so the girl went inside to look for him . |
| 23 | However , the officer also warned that the army 's deadline was the end of the month and that , if de Gaulle did not respond to its appeal , the army would go ahead with Operation Resurrection nonetheless . |
| 24 | In the beginning , a team of French builders was hired , but when they did not respond to his treatment of them as an army detachment , he fired them and barked orders at Anthony instead . |
| 25 | When Richard did not respond to his greeting except by frowning and then turning away , Hugh remained undismayed . |
| 26 | Vass , predictably , did not rise to her challenge . |
| 27 | But his adaptability did not apply to his tenets , merely to his instinct for self-preservation . |
| 28 | He called his great-uncle by his christian name with no prefix and did not jump to his feet when the old man entered the room . |
| 29 | This snappily dressed , half-smiling man with something of the looks of the young Cary Grant about him did not approximate to his vision of a psychiatrist . |
| 30 | The combination of prophetic denunciation and broad generalization did not appeal to his contemporaries ; as one of his colleagues in the Chandos Group ( where Eliot had been discussing the matters contained in his book ) wrote later , " It is understandable that The Idea of a Christian Society should make little appeal to the large majority of the intelligentsia . |