Example sentences of "[Wh pn] did [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of those who did eventually end up in court , the acquittal rate by March 1985 was 24 per cent ( Wallington , 1985 : 150 ) . |
| 2 | A male who did somehow manage to copulate with hundreds of females would be at an enormous advantage compared with a male who only copulated with one or two females . |
| 3 | Perhaps the unemployed were the only people who did any work these days . |
| 4 | Although Elton Mayo is considered to be the pioneer of the human relations movement , Lewin was another important theorist who did much research on group dynamics and leadership styles . |
| 5 | The house was almost certainly designed by the popular Regency architect John Papworth , who did much work in Chigwell , for several different clients . |
| 6 | I left just a bit less naive than when I 'd started , and a lot more confused ; in the end I fitted neither with the industrious working-class student body ( which was a large proportion ) nor with the socially confident middle class who did less work but had better cultural camouflage to disguise their deficiencies . |
| 7 | One thing is certain , that those of them — priests , prophets or saints — who did so respond , were usually rejected . |
| 8 | Since we ca n't find out who did actually make it we ca n't sue anybody for all the costs that that involved in trying put it right . |
| 9 | Moreover , most users who did actually want to come off were reacting , not to heroin itself but the associated dangerous and stressful lifestyle . |
| 10 | On reading the works of Sylvia Plath , who did indeed live the life of suicide , I have noticed that her comments on impingement often seem to coincide with my own feelings at the time I was anorexic . |
| 11 | The stranger , who did indeed take Tullivers , was a young married woman called Phyllida Prior , who had a small son Jeremy to keep her company . |
| 12 | But as soon as the fact came to light , Lord 's agent Giles Gordon made it known to all the nine publishers to whom an outline had been submitted , some of whom did consequently withdraw bids . |