Example sentences of "[conj] did they [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or did they want five pounds for him ? |
| 2 | When I rang up to say I were coming I asked them did they want Easter eggs or did they want fa er a box of chocolates or bars of chocolate we |
| 3 | Was it d d d w was there was there like er erm sort of pa er erm love of country or or did they stress , say the virtues of honesty a a and fairness , can can you remember anything like that ? |
| 4 | Did they think it was wrong to kill and steal , or did they think it showed what good fighters they were ? " |
| 5 | Or did they do that too ? |
| 6 | " When asked " Were they forcibly evicted , or did they go of their own free will ? " he answered " Some left voluntarily owing to the poor markets . " |
| 7 | Did they have a , did they have a band or anything in the church or did they sing without music ? |
| 8 | Full of anticipation they were fitted out with very chic driving overalls , registered for the day ( or did they sign their lives away ? ) and listened very intently to the briefing . |
| 9 | Did you was it you who chose to go and work in Llaneilian or did they send you to work there from ? |
| 10 | Or did they choose a kind of evening do you know ? or did it not matter ? |
| 11 | Did they di do you think they I was going to say enjoy there but I do I do n't think that 'd be the right word , but d did they like or did they prefer to work piece work or was it something that they loathed or I mean there was more money to be made at it was n't there ? |
| 12 | Was it a case of KLM bringing pressure , for commercial reasons , on the RLD to accept the DC-10 , or did they feel unable to challenge the validity of the FAA certificate of airworthiness ? |
| 13 | What we do know is that I M R O asked for this information in June nineteen eighty-eight and not long afterwards I M R O granted recognition to B I M and other Maxwell Companies , all the more surprising perhaps having raised the questions whether the question must come about , did they continue with their investigation , or did they let the matter drop and perhaps you might to comment in that context . |
| 14 | There was only one day , was n't there , or did they have days here but they were just very long ? |
| 15 | Or did they have their own trains ? |
| 16 | No not really , no Could you of chosen erm where to have the house or did they have some , that had been left for that purpose ? |
| 17 | Or did they come straight down from antique gods ? |
| 18 | ‘ Or did they get two for the price of one ? ’ |
| 19 | If they guarantee to put the mattresses all up in the dry they asked you to do yours or did they say they would do it ? |
| 20 | Nor did they speak nicely or carry handbags from Étienne Aigner in which reposed American Express Gold Cards . |
| 21 | None of them mentioned Richard or Hubert Molland ; nor did they refer to the last time they had all had tea together . |
| 22 | They did not breakfast , nor did they clear up . |
| 23 | But it was clear that they had not given the subject much thought , nor did they feel there was any need to . |
| 24 | The Aztecs did not have a term for ‘ fine arts ’ , nor did they speculate about aesthetics , nor make objects to be contemplated for their beauty alone . |
| 25 | Nor did they continue to deploy the full panoply of radical techniques in moments of perceived social and political crisis . |
| 26 | Nor did they think that Sri Lankans prosecuted a larger than normal proportion of true criminal cases because of their faith in the effectiveness of British justice . |
| 27 | William Pitt , First Earl of Chatham , should have had pall-bearers equal in rank to himself , but this was not to be and in a letter written in 1778 following the funeral in Westminster Abbey , the nineteen-year-old Pitt the Younger said to his mother , ‘ The Court did not honour us with their countenance , nor did they suffer the procession to be as magnificent as it ought ; but it had , notwithstanding everything essential to the great object , the attendance being most remarkable . |
| 28 | Run by the parishes or by groups of parishes , workhouses never produced an output which even repaid the purchase of raw materials , nor did they meet the vaunted secondary objective of training the poor in the " habits of industry " . |
| 29 | Nor did they make any serious efforts to derive income from a huge fixed asset , which was used for only a few hours a week . |
| 30 | Nor did they want equal non-protection from the law — they wanted censorship . |