Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father died , and two months later so did my mother . |
| 2 | erm people who were in court , say , twenty/thirty/forty years ago perhaps did see scenes where the Clerk was over involved and appeared to be running things , but you do n't see that these days . |
| 3 | Well , Brian Horton 's comments just there did . |
| 4 | None of the reviews were great , and John Candy is n't one of those must-see stars so why did you bother ? |
| 5 | They were ill-informed in the sense that the conceptual basis for understanding such meaning was not carefully theorised , as well as in the more obvious sense that the travellers often simply did not know the language and did not spend enough time living in a particular society . |
| 6 | As Wesley had done , and as Rational Dissenters very frequently did , they alluded to the natural rights of all men . |
| 7 | We have listened to the Secretary of State speak for an hour and a minute , and during those 61 minutes never once did he utter a word about the central feature of the Bill — the doctrinaire destruction of Her Majesty 's inspectorate of schools and the privatisation of the national and local schools inspectorates . |
| 8 | Louis 's use of baptismal ritual to suggest his own imperial status vis-à-vis Harald was modelled on Byzantine practice , and Louis was seeking , as his eastern counterparts so often did , to promote imperial interests through intervention in the dynastic conflicts of a barbarian people . |
| 9 | So you changed jobs then really did you both you both kind of started out in the quarries |