Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [Wh pn] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The " labouring poor " covers the majority who did work and who were less than comfortably off , but the truly poor were usually so because they could not work or could not get enough work , while many skilled journeymen earned more than small-holding freeholders . |
| 2 | The 29.5 per cent of the electorate who did vote Tory under the circumstances of February 1974 must have known what they were doing — contesting the ‘ unconstitutional claims of the disruptive sectional union interests ’ — but they did not form a sufficiently large social bloc . |
| 3 | Although the desire to become a home-owner may represent a genuine social aspiration for these women and their families , there is no evidence that it guarantees satisfaction with housework : the housewives in the sample who did own their homes were no more satisfied than those whose homes were rented . |
| 4 | The person who did tip off the authorities turned it down . |
| 5 | ‘ It appears that the baby who did survive was doing maybe two-thirds of the work . |
| 6 | The man who did encourage Nilsson was the conductor Fritz Busch , who was also working in Stockholm . |
| 7 | For the dealer who did want a good price , the procedure became a matter of negotiation , and it paid him to buy the market-maker a drink sometimes . |
| 8 | And he 'd got a boy who did stutter and he always used to go to granddad before er he when he came to school , before lessons and he 'd give him this pebble and he 'd say , now you can put it in your pocket . |
| 9 | With his sad cry , a creature who did seem |
| 10 | There were Henry Drummonds in every generation who did make connections between their theology and their science . |