Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bet you I 've put that tape measure away did n't I ? |
| 2 | Those who persisted with their postgraduate study often did so purely in order to go abroad . |
| 3 | Every guitarist ought to listen to an album called ‘ Then Play On ’ , which is the last album Green ever did with Fleetwood Mac . |
| 4 | For comparison , Toglia , Payne , Nightingale and Ceci ( 1989 ) found that the threat of taking a blood sample alone did not appear to affect overall levels of performance at list learning , face recognition for a nurse who did not in fact take a blood sample or cued recall for an earlier conversation . |
| 5 | Cricket committee chairman Close did n't even get a vote and threatened to quit as the county plunged towards a new civil war . |
| 6 | Er the home office really did n't know what they were talking about they gave these two models of the unpaid volunteer er no uniform , no training , no powers , to come out from the community work with the community under the eyes and ears of the police . |
| 7 | you had an owl cake once did you or was it a cat ? |
| 8 | Only seven-year-old vegetarian Alero Provo never did . |
| 9 | But what their 1–1 draw at Olympia Leisure Centre yesterday did signify was that the champions reign throughout that period is finally drawing to an end . |
| 10 | Because farmers , like people in other industries , thought it would never happen to them , the safety angle probably did not assume the importance it deserved . |
| 11 | Only when a package burst open did the sheriff receive a tip off from the postal service U P S. |
| 12 | Since as Jack Droney put it , Brent , with its left-wing trade unionists , ‘ was a bloody good place for the Grunwick strike to happen ’ , one might expect that the union involved had given the strikers not only support but increased impetus in their struggles , but members of the strike committee certainly did not feel this to be so . |
| 13 | The ISD programming team also did their bit by charging colleagues in ISD for calls they made to the Helpdesk , raising around £2OO . |
| 14 | she used to have bank counter job though did n't she ? |
| 15 | The magazine Marxism Today did the same . |
| 16 | The parish priest of Brackenstown , Swords , County Dublin , distributed a newsletter at all masses on Ascension Thursday , 22 May — though before he had read Archbishop MacNamara 's guidelines on how to conduct the campaign — claiming that no-fault divorce was first introduced by Nazi Germany and that it had since wreaked ‘ more havoc on the Allied countries than any German army or air force ever did ’ ( Irish Times , 28 June 1986 ) . |
| 17 | More investigation may well reveal that manufacturing industry simply did not pay enough to get the best people . |
| 18 | Softness and this man Vass definitely did not go together ! |
| 19 | His confident appearances in the music press just did n't ring true . |
| 20 | ‘ Malt whisky never did anyone anything but good . ’ |
| 21 | The Chairman of the County Council has just got food poisoning Where did he pick it up ? |
| 22 | Many colonnades , staircases , doorways and corridors open on to the Central Courts and , if the bull dance really did take place there , they must have been protected in some way from the rampaging bulls . |
| 23 | I do n't think he actually d or she whichever it is the form teacher actually did that did they ? |
| 24 | No she does n't have to work , but she , she chooses to work nine till six , I mean she just got her pension thing out did n't she ? |
| 25 | Up until the advent of the superstore , if a small organisation wanted to buy a PC system where did it go — Dixons ? |
| 26 | Nurse found them and cracked them between her fingernails the way Smallfry sometimes did when he was made to kneel with his head in her lap , breathing her perfume and savouring the rare closeness of her . |
| 27 | In December 1989 , coinciding with an improvement in Soviet-Vatican relations , Uniate congregations had been allowed legally to register [ see p. 37129 ] , and while the Uniate Church still did not formally enjoy full legal status most obstacles to its operating legally had been removed by the October 1990 Soviet law on freedom of worship [ see pp. 37787-88 ] . |
| 28 | Then you went and set your blanket on fire one night and the fire engine out did n't you ? |
| 29 | So the family group just did n't work out . ’ |
| 30 | But she come home Christmas night then did n't she ? |