Example sentences of "[pron] they [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pointed at the house and ordered them to go towards it , which they obediently did . |
| 2 | In one such instance , when the party prospectively disadvantaged happened to be in government , the Home Secretary took the extraordinary step of introducing the order and advising his party colleagues in the House to reject it , which they duly did , the stated reasons being the desirability of awaiting the outcome of a local government review then pending . |
| 3 | The company secretary orally requested the auditors to give a valuation , which they duly did , and the plaintiff sold his shares at that price . |
| 4 | The rise in real levels of social assistance which occurred in the boom could have made such opting out more feasible , even if the social assistance rates did not rise relative to earnings ( which they generally did not — child benefit in particular fell substantially relative to average incomes ) . |
| 5 | If you , if you had to make the tea as many times in the day as us women did which they all did |
| 6 | which they often did |
| 7 | SO Iran-contra did not happen much , except to certain people ; and even those people often felt caught up in events that were exceptionally odd and different , adventures they might have watched on television , and in which they especially did not expect to find themselves . |
| 8 | September 1938 , and under the terms agreed by those representatives , Germany was allowed to occupy Sudetenland , which they promptly did on 10th . |
| 9 | Southern are reissuing everything they ever did , plus an LP of their legendary sweat hell sex war last British gig ( hey ! |
| 10 | They made a dam on the stream , which was something they often did when they came to the spinney . |
| 11 | They they usually did n't finish it , but er they started , so er there was a fair amount of er of er of er interest in the marketplace . |
| 12 | no need for them to go to Norwood Gardens or or they they specifically did n't go to Norwood Gardens they just went through did n't they ? |
| 13 | Then at the end of the scene we noticed the Indians were n't doing what they normally did which was stick their poles in to stop the raft . |
| 14 | yeah what they all did |
| 15 | On the other hand , what they actually did was usually very difficult to relate to the requirements of socialist revolution , particularly since it typically victimised its own class rather than capitalists . |
| 16 | They would be going off in the boat together because that is what they always did in the mornings , to return in half an hour . |
| 17 | What they perhaps did not realise at the time was that France was not prepared to compromise . |