Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Would it be out of order to ask what they do get paid , or what they did get paid ? |
| 2 | For at about the same time I was approached by the secretary of Edinburgh 's New Club which as a member of Brooks 's Club in London I was entitled to use on a reciprocal basis , and which I did use for lunch perhaps a dozen times a year . |
| 3 | And you you did discuss libraries . |
| 4 | and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree |
| 5 | By contrast , Phena seemed intent on avoiding everyone , and anyone who did deign to speak to her got snapped at for their trouble . |
| 6 | Colnaghi contributed little to American museums in these years ( the 1930s and 1940s ) and what they did sell betrayed an unwillingness to adapt to the times . |
| 7 | Mind you it seemed that they had a test at school last week and he was n't terribly happy with it , he said he could n't understand it , he tried to explain to me what it was , but erm , it 's not , not easy , but Ga Gavin said erm , he said they 'd had a test and he said it took him time to get into it but once he got into it , you know , he did alright in it , I think he said how many he got , he did n't seem to do too badly , but he said Alex did n't really do anything and what he did do he thought was wrong so he did n't hand it in , he said and in actual fact what he had done was right , so I do n't know , I told , I told Alex to go and see , you know , and ask about it and sort of erm , apparently he did do that so at least he 'll know , but erm , it 's strange really because normally Alex |
| 8 | I do n't think he introduced any really new ideas , and what he did suggest has n't lasted , but still , in its way , it was effective . |
| 9 | What I did not expect to find — and what I did find — was a strong Roman impact on the intellectual relations between Greeks and Jews or Celts or Iranians as soon as Roman power began to be felt outside Italy in the second century B.C. The influence of Rome on the minds of those who came into contact with it was quick and strong . |
| 10 | But I I did take part in it when I was a a boy in school , and that 's a that 's a fair while ago , now right enough , but er er I used to attend the er Well a primary school , I went to the small Grimness school , in the north end of South Ronaldsay , which has now been closed for over twenty years . |
| 11 | And we 're staying with football now , we 've got one more match report to give you ; the Oxfordshire Senior Cup third round , most of those matches were called off , but one which did survive was Headington against Thame , and a good result for Headington ; they won by two goals to nil . |
| 12 | The first was an accelerated attempt to broaden the focus of the family planning programme to include the broader concept of family welfare planning — an ingenious verbal massage of an increasingly tarnished image , but one which did acknowledge the need for a better delivery system for family health including better preventative medicine , pre- and post-puerperal care and advice on household hygiene which would lower infant mortality rates and improve the health of the family . |
| 13 | Erm , it became very clear that that , that bid erm , was in fact , at an early stage , that that bid was not , did not have a realistic chance of being successful , so as , as you know Chairman , when you went on the delegation to see er , Mr in London , actually at that meeting , er , the members of the delegation said to the Secretary of State , well , we recognize , Secretary of State that it 's the wrong area , what we 'd like to really argue for is a bid for the urban core out in Browsley , erm , in , at the end of the day , we did n't even quite get that , but what we did manage to get was objective two status for the urban core of Telford still , and I think that was probably against the odds . |
| 14 | That 's right , Bolton won five nil but what we did get clarified from the Football League today was if two English teams finish their four games on the same number of points , is it goal difference or is it the number of goals scored that is the crucial factor ? |
| 15 | Neither did we know anything of the controversy at high levels over the relative merits of area versus precision bombing , but what we did notice was that during the winter of 1943/44 , morale amongst the aircrews was not exactly at its highest level . |
| 16 | But what they did suffer from — and what finally split them — is a time gap . |
| 17 | The ‘ middle class ’ activists did not necessarily support all the actual policies of the national party , but what they did support was the form of policymaking , and the right of the leadership to make policy . |
| 18 | Although they did n't , they did n't act illegally , they did n't say right , we 're going to make the redundancy payment act , but what they did say you retire at fifty , we will make your we will enhance your pension to what you would have got at age sixty , we will enhance your lump sum to what you would have got at age sixty and erm give you a redundancy payment from the firm and obviously everybody fifty and plus they 've gone in thousands , they had enormous waiting lists and then they had to say no , you ca n't go you know , too many people wanted to go . |
| 19 | But what she did have was an eye and an ear and a view about promotion right from the beginning . |
| 20 | Her view of the interior of the shed was limited but what she did see raised her hopes . |
| 21 | She did n't know but what she did know was that Fernando would n't do anything to hurt anyone … only herself , as he had threatened when she had first arrived here at the lovely Casa Pinar . |
| 22 | She did n't quite , but what she did understand was that she hated this woman , and the thought momentarily came to her that that man would n't surely have been as bad as this mean-faced nun . |
| 23 | Stansill was not one of the extroverts of the underground , but what he did bring was method , in an environment with hardly any , and a philosophical view about the alternative which the underground could offer . |
| 24 | But what he did do was to embroider , I fantasise . |
| 25 | But what he did come to recognise was the inadequacy of existing literature : ‘ I realised that the main writers on history and statistics at the time had done very little research and were relying on a few books . |
| 26 | Yeah but what he did take my Walkman for though ? |
| 27 | Maureen 's skill lay in basic first-aid and tender loving care , so I did n't learn about diseases or complicated injuries — but what I did learn was vital to my future work . |
| 28 | But what I did notice about him was how much he wanted to love women . |
| 29 | ‘ I may not have been the tallest , nor the most athletic — Mick Doyle reckoned I only ever jumped from my shoulders up — but what I did have was the most effective arse in world rugby ’ . |
| 30 | I really did n't need another jumper , but what I did need was a button-to-the-neck cardigan . |