Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sight of the flames leaping up did much to hearten me . |
| 2 | I chose the right Tuesday to go then did n't I ? |
| 3 | In place of saying that if the effect occurred so did the cause , we may say that the occurrence of the effect required that of the cause . |
| 4 | Veronica came up did n't she yesterday to see where her er has Sally got her stuff please . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After the end of the First World War and when the motor car came in did they still come along on horses ? |
| 7 | There was no general consistency in response to this group of questions , which may have indicated that subjects responding correctly did so out of knowledge of the scientific findings . |
| 8 | Those teenagers left behind did not let their new skills go to waste . |
| 9 | As the strength of the dragons waned so did the power of the Dragon Princes . |
| 10 | erm she 's got a family Margaret , she said she wo n't go there any more she I , I do n't know whether that er Jean does so Did n't she just cotton on quickly , she said do you know that , I said why do I want anybody wandering in my house and my kitchen , I said it 's a bit like it 's clean , why should I have somebody sort of , well I mean just because I 'm doing cooking , she said you would n't stop fancy one , you never know , she said well unless you want to stop at the , please do n't , you 'll let me still have your jam wo n't you ? |
| 11 | On completion the railway found the workmen had discovered alternative transport and the Loughton pick up did not recommence . |
| 12 | Ah , I was so angry , I was , he had my arm right , I forced , pushed him back it was , like , behind my back so I lent back thinking oh he 'll give me his arms then anyway old flipping hag came in did n't she ! |
| 13 | THE GREEN SHOOTS never did appear . |
| 14 | It 's higher than the one I had because erm the base is obviously I just had the springs going across did n't I ? |
| 15 | Well she was young in them day anyway , an the war came along did n't it ? |
| 16 | On Cordia nodosa ( Boraginaceae ) , however , invaders did not increase under these conditions , perhaps because the plant is so pubescent and therefore impassable to large ants in any case : only when lianes occupied by the smaller Crematogaster ants came near did the resident Allomerus demerarae attack . |
| 17 | I mean you did n't have sixteen , seventeen year olds in those days coming through did you ? |
| 18 | Although her decision to do so did not ultimately affect her position as one of this country 's most important early modernists , it is my contention that it had a profound effect on the development of her art in the 1920s and , possibly , for the rest of her life . |
| 19 | They included a two-volume guide to Shakespeare 's plays , an investigation into the authorship of the Book of Genesis , a commentary on the poems of Kipling and Byron , a biographical encyclopaedia of all the scientists who have ever lived , musings on music and humour and a series of informative books with titles beginning How Did We Find Out About … ? on subjects ranging from black holes and life in the deep sea to number theory . |
| 20 | The opportunity to do so did not arise until Racedown was offered to them six years later , by which time Wordsworth could contemplate a life whose course , since his Norfolk visit , had done much to shape his political and poetic character , and had left him with more than a little to repent . |
| 21 | The belief that f caused s , then , is in part that if f had not occurred , s would not have , that if s occurred so did f . |
| 22 | Populations evolved separately in each of these pools , and only when the water rose again did they re-convene in the same lake . |
| 23 | Only when Lloyd came out did the runs begin to flow , but when the final twenty overs began another 154 were still needed . |
| 24 | And was it continual like , as soon as one lorry drove away did you get an empty in ? |
| 25 | All this sounded remarkably easy to accomplish , as invasion plans invariably did on paper . |
| 26 | One night spent together did n't make a relationship out of open warfare . |
| 27 | I did n't think he was gon na be able to get through cos the phone broke down did n't it ? |
| 28 | As the papacy 's powers increased so did the cardinals ' revenues , for they were involved in general administration and often legal duties and would expect gifts and payments for services . |
| 29 | She said when , when Mrs said why did you ask Emma she goes , cos we asked you to go the cinema all the time . |
| 30 | What kind of education had when did you when did you leave sc |