Example sentences of "[subord] they [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | The members of the Royal Society , although they probably did n't adopt the social manners and customs of the 1770s and actually drink Priestley 's soda water at their Dining Club , were greatly impressed by its merits . |
| 2 | True crocodilian did not appear until the mid-Triassic , although they probably did not differ much from their late Permian ancestors . |
| 3 | Although they still did an average of three shows a night , after their stint in Paris this was easy . |
| 4 | Now that Situationist texts are widely available ( and with these publications adding to the list ) it is ironic that they seem less crucial than they once did . |
| 5 | Americans certainly use lots of energy , but less prodigiously than they once did . |
| 6 | There is another way in which trade figures today mean less than they once did . |
| 7 | The obligations of stateless organization , the solemn ceremonies of making peaces , perhaps worked better in 1979 than they ever did in the stateless age . |
| 8 | The university and polytechnic libraries now spend probably more in real terms on library guides than they ever did . |
| 9 | The day began like any other , except that the bells of St James 's Church seemed to peal with more exhilaration than they ever did on a Sunday , and Sarah pictured the ringers jumping up and down for joy at the ends of their stout ropes . |
| 10 | And my employers Fitch ( Groupe Bull , Southern Electricity ) lost more sleep over whether the colours in our new letterhead would allow it to make any sense coming off a client 's monochrome fax machine than they ever did about the evocation of caring values . |
| 11 | ‘ Life 's like that , ’ she answered him , and he too seemed to feel that the simple words said more than they usually did . |
| 12 | Deaf people also imagined hearing people to hold more negative attitudes than they actually did . |
| 13 | A NORTH-EAST company was fined a total of £1,300 with £582 costs for claiming its products contained more meat than they actually did . |
| 14 | In the other fields I 've discussed earlier — public speaking appearing on television , staging a special event , holding a conference , you can ( but you should n't ) kid yourself that they went better than they really did . |
| 15 | Ken Vasey did n't have to make a save in the first half , did n't really have to did n't give Charlton a chance , and even in the second half when Charlton came forward more and more , they did n't really have any chances erm one that Lee volleyed over the bar , one that was headed over the crossbar , and the chance that went in the net , so they still did n't have many chances , but erm United somehow erm construed to drop two points , and erm yes , dreadfully disappointing . |
| 16 | Murdo : So they likely did , lass — but och shouldny laugh — |
| 17 | Well , once they nearly did . |
| 18 | He felt uncomfortable , uneasy at the way the Prince and Gaveston hardly spared them a glance whilst their companions at table treated them as if they simply did not exist . |
| 19 | If they really did n't care , why not just opt for a serge skirt or Crimplene slacks on special offer from the back of the Radio Times ? |
| 20 | If they ever did . |
| 21 | And if they ever did set out to open up this place , ’ he said consideringly , ‘ there are a dozen more important places to begin , of course . ’ |
| 22 | I wondered if they still did it at the pictures , 'cos it 's years since I went to the pictures . |
| 23 | Yeah , but I thought , sounded as if they only did tho , those that you blow up and this is n't , you can put it in , in the wash or anything . |
| 24 | In East German they are now drowning in rubbish because they used to have a perfect recycling scheme everything was collected and recycled cos they just did n't have the materials . |
| 25 | I mean they only threw him out because they just did n't , have the , the , the staff , I mean I sat in there day after day and I felt bloody sorry , they were ringing , ninety percent of their day taken by ringing , begging for staff |
| 26 | When people did not use a form of credit they had considered , usually it was because they either did not buy at all , or paid cash instead . |
| 27 | I think there 's I think there 's quite a few and I think this is what swayed it , the fact that they have had erm , I know of at least ten say ten , there 's one , two , three on the other side of the road which is good because Bob which is another one , so that 's four , there 's which is the other side of the shop , is five , there 's us , six , Jean seven , the eight , erm the guy the other side of the which is nine , there is Ginny over the and the erm old persons ' home , that 's ten that I know of for certain about , er and then I 've heard of other people were gon na be writing in , now whether they actually did or not I do n't know |
| 28 | Nobody who read the Bible could legitimately doubt that miracles had once occurred ; the question whether they still did so became for doubters a test of their faith . |
| 29 | The pilot , frantically trying to avoid disaster , felt his craft tilt and knew the big rotors were going to hit the gatehouse before they actually did . |
| 30 | It should not be thought that Unionists enjoyed such a situation , for they certainly did not , but nor can it be suggested that they saw any real alternative , for in truth the basis of agreement on which parliamentary government " rested had all but broken down . |