Example sentences of "did [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These sometimes interrupted the schedules , as did extensive reportage of elections , of local Assemblies . |
| 2 | From there the Franks crossed over into Valencia , where they did extensive damage . |
| 3 | To make the character totally convincing , Lynda did extensive research with the real CID |
| 4 | Forensic scientist Andrew Hunt told Teesside Crown Court he did extensive tests on blood on Mrs Chandler 's clothes , behind her nails and on nearby rocks . |
| 5 | ‘ When you spend as much time as we did trying to stop others scoring tries , you do n't have much time to argue with the ref ’ — ZIMBABWE 's REPRESENTATIVE when accepting the World Cup Fair Play Award . |
| 6 | People who drank six cups of coffee a day had reaction times 6 per cent faster than non-coffee drinkers and they did 4-5 per cent better on memory and reasoning tests . |
| 7 | Hearing people distorted the temporal sequence much more than did deaf people , with bilinguals coming somewhere between . |
| 8 | In those days , too , when the guests entered they crossed between me and the cameras , which did strange things to the perspective . |
| 9 | The inversion did strange things to their anatomy . |
| 10 | Cos I thought he did advanced French last year . |
| 11 | ‘ What did Eadred tell you ? ’ |
| 12 | The movement of cattle , legal and illegal , had a much greater influence on Border life , particularly in its less amenable wilds and wastes , than did agricultural developments . |
| 13 | So did fiery islands residents , local councillors , MPs and newspaper editors . |
| 14 | There are also links with Nottingham 's twin city Minsk proving that the department still serves the local community as it did 75 years ago . |
| 15 | Only when their blend of quality and value swept the markets did European manufacturers the godfathers of viticulture step into line . |
| 16 | Did political stability justify the pretensions and excesses of his republican monarchy ? |
| 17 | I wo n't go into them today if I did possible savings . |
| 18 | For most of the men , it was the only day of the year when they were able to visit a town , spending their days as they did working on the isolated farms of the moors and dales . |
| 19 | Though they have existed in some countries for centuries , only after the 1940s did state-owned enterprises ( SOEs ) come to prominence in most developing countries . |
| 20 | Did Lower Axe dream in the soft evening sunshine of nineteen ninety two , or was it the wartime village that was out there now , canopied by the dangerous skies of nineteen forty ? |
| 21 | Mrs Atkinson , who lived in Liverpool all her life , was a well-known pianist and singer , but she also did marquetery painting as a hobby prior to her marriage . |
| 22 | I have very unpleasant recollections of sitting for him , for it was of utmost importance not to move but to fix him right in the eye and listen to him complain , saying as he always did that he was getting nowhere . |
| 23 | Did that part lead to the next in any way ? |
| 24 | And later — much later at the National Theatre playing the young Captain Absolute — did that grow out of being seen in these performances ? |
| 25 | who did that ? ’ |
| 26 | Marion Conroy was on stage until the final curtain calls and came up the stairs with the rest of the cast afterwards , observing as she did that Pepper went into his No. 2 and shut the door but that Cissy opened it and went in after him , the wide-eyed babyish stare that was the caricaturists ' joy quite absent . |
| 27 | ‘ Why did that stupid idiot put her stupid fifty-pound note inside my pocket ? ’ |
| 28 | How did that happen ? ’ |
| 29 | LAT THAIM SAY — what did that mean ? |
| 30 | People always did that , Geraldine reflected . |