Example sentences of "do they [vb infin] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Even with the wind of generosity at their back , why did they travel at a man 's walking pace ? |
2 | So successfully did they break into the English market that they soon put the native vineyards out of business . |
3 | Generating company managers had merely allowed water levels to run down in the hope that the drought would eventually end ; only in March 1992 did they admit to a disaster , announcing nationwide rationing which was currently believed to be costing the economy an estimated US$330,000 each week . |
4 | Primitive mammals were known to have existed throughout the ‘ age of reptiles ’ , but only after the dinosaurs had gone did they diversify into a wide range of specialized forms . |
5 | Populations evolved separately in each of these pools , and only when the water rose again did they re-convene in the same lake . |
6 | None of them mentioned Richard or Hubert Molland ; nor did they refer to the last time they had all had tea together . |
7 | ‘ What did they think of the electronic tagging idea ? ’ |
8 | What did they think of the Vikings ? |
9 | What did they think of the brochure then ? |
10 | And how did they use that extra area , what did they do with the ? |
11 | Well that was , well it should 've gone up from that , what did they do with the VAT stuck two and a half percent on it and said there you are we 're gon na hold the Poll Tax down , how ? |
12 | What did they do on the very first day except walk under the first vehicle they saw ? |
13 | How much did they pay for a ticket then , how much ? |
14 | What did they want for a wedding present ? |
15 | ( Did they meet on the rue de Seine ? ) |
16 | Did they complain about the Fujitsu factory , which takes some beating when one is considering eyesores ? |
17 | Did they go to the |
18 | What did they put in the coffee that made it such a diuretic ? |
19 | Were they somehow caught by s 2 , or , because s 4 had no application , did they fall outside the Act ? |
20 | ‘ What did they say on the telephone ? ’ |
21 | What else did they say at the briefing ? |
22 | What did they say in the Owsla ? |
23 | In addition , what problems did they note about the labour supply for industries ? |
24 | And did they camp up the hill as well ? |
25 | Did they work through the night as well , was it shiftwork there ? |
26 | Did they learn from the professors or from the other participants ? |
27 | But the attitudes and relationships which haunt the present — what are they and how did they dominate in the past ? |
28 | What di what did they charge for a trip ? |
29 | ‘ Did they know of the deep place in the pond ? |
30 | Nor did they know of the old Swedish experiments attempting to make helium from hydrogen in the laboratory . |